LANDMATE PFT land cover dataset for Europe 2015 (Version 1.0)

The LANDMATE PFT dataset provides a land cover map for Europe for the year 2015 in 0.1° (~10km) and 0.018° (~2km) resolution. The dataset is based on land cover data of the ESA Climate Change Initiative (ESA-CCI, native resolution: 300m) which is translated into 16 plant functional types (PFTs) and non-vegetated classes employing the cross-walking procedure introduced by Reinhart et al. (2021). The translation is done under consideration of the Holdridge Life Zones (HLZs), a system, that classifies land areas based on bioclimatic properties. Through the HLZs, regional distinction of the individual PFT distribution can be achieved. The land cover information is given as fractions per grid cell where each fraction represents the area covered by the respective land cover within each grid cell (0-1).

The dataset is available in two different horizontal resolutions, 0.1° (~10km) and 0.018° (~2km), whereby the land cover information is resampled using a fractional approach to achieve the desired resolution.

The LANDMATE PFT dataset was carefully developed and designed to meet the present and future requirements of regional climate models and is therefore recommended to be used for regional climate modeling over the European Continent.
The LANDMATE PFT dataset (0.1° resolution) serves as basemap for the historical and future land use and land cover dataset LUCAS LUC developed by Hoffmann et al. (2021).

LANDMATE PFT 数据集为欧洲2015年的地表覆盖图提供了0.1°（约10公里）和0.018°（约2公里）分辨率的地图。该数据集基于欧洲空间局气候变化倡议（ESA-CCI，原始分辨率为300米）的地表覆盖数据，通过引入Reinhart等人在2021年提出的交叉映射程序，将其转换为16种植物功能类型（PFTs）和非植被类别。翻译过程中充分考虑了Hölldobler生命地带（HLZs），该系统根据生物气候属性对土地区域进行分类。通过HLZs，可以实现个体PFT分布的区域区分。地表覆盖信息以每个网格单元的分数形式给出，其中每个分数代表各自地表覆盖在每个网格单元中所覆盖的面积（0-1）。该数据集以两种不同的水平分辨率提供，0.1°（约10公里）和0.018°（约2公里），其中地表覆盖信息采用分数重采样的方法以达到所需的分辨率。LANDMATE PFT 数据集经过精心开发与设计，旨在满足当前及未来的区域气候模型需求，因此推荐用于欧洲大陆的区域气候建模。0.1°分辨率的LANDMATE PFT 数据集作为Hoffmann等人（2021年）开发的LUCAS LUC历史和未来土地利用与地表覆盖数据集的基础图。