Enhanced Land Use Classification of 2010 for the Rur catchment

This data set contains the enhanced land use
classification of 2010 for the study area of the CRC/Transregio 32: "Patterns in
Soil-Vegetation-Atmosphere Systems: monitoring, modelling and data assimilation", which
corresponds to the catchment of the river Rur. The study area is mainly situated in the
western part of North Rhine-Westphalia (Germany) and parts of the Netherlands and Belgium. The
land use classification is derived from supervised, multi temporal remote sensing data
analysis using RapidEye and Landsat 5 TM. For the land use analysis datasets of the following
acquisition dates were used from RapidEye: May 23, May 20, July 07, July 08 and July 10. From
Landsat 5 a dataset of August 14 was incorporated. Full coverage of the study area was not
available for all acquisition dates. To enhance the information content of the land use data
product, the Multi-Data Approach (MDA) was used to combine the remote sensing derived land use
information with additional data sets like the 'Authorative Topographic-Cartographic
Information System' (ATKIS Basic-DLM, AAA schema) and 'Physical Block' information. The
classification is provided in GeoTIFF and in ASCII format. Spatial resolution: 15 m;
projection: WGS84, UTM Zone 32N.