Vector Shapefiles Of The Rural-Urban Interface In Portugal Estimated For Different Periods (1990, 2000, 2006, 2012)

Vector shapefiles of the rural-urban interface (RUI) in Portugal estimated for different periods (1990, 2000, 2006, 2012). RUI was mapped considering the first and the second level hierarchy of CORINE Land Cover (CLC). A specific geospatial approach was designed to extract the area of intersection between a buffer around the artificial surfaces and the area resulting from the sum of the forest and semi natural areas plus the heterogeneous agricultural areas. We adopted a buffer width of 1 km, corresponding to two times the spatial resolution of CLC inventories.

The field “code_yy” refers to CLC class level 3. More about the Corine Land Cover (CLC) programme and datasets can be found at http://www.eea.eu

More about the the RUI maps elaboration can be found at: https://doi.org/10.5194/nhess-18-1-2018. Please, cite data and the related paper if you use them. (cite as: Tonini., M., Parente., J., Pereira., M., Global assessment of rural-urban interface in Portugal related to land cover changes; Nat. Hazards Earth Syst. Sci., 18, 1–18, 2018)