SERENA EJPSOIL NL SOILSEALING SEALINGDEGREE

The internal EJP SOIL project SERENA contributed to the evaluation of soil multifunctionality aiming at providing assessment tools for land planning and soil policies at different scales. By co-working with relevant stakeholders, the project provided co-developed indicators and associated cookbooks to assess and map them, to report both on soil degradation, soil-based ecosystem services and their bundles, under actual conditions and for climate and land-use changes, at the regional, national, and European scales.

The dataset corresponds to a map of soil sealing of the Netherlands for the year 2022 (compared to 2021). The map is the result of applying the Soil Sealing cookbook developed in SERENA/EJP-Soil. It is based on multitemporal satellite images (a combination of Sentinel 1 & 2 sattelite images). The methodology uses vegetation (Sentinel 1) and backscatter (Sentinel 2) indices calculated over time series of images. The final map has 10 m spatial resolution and is classified according to the following:

1. Possible changes identified by both Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 methodologies (very probable changes)2. Possible changes identified by Sentinel-1 methodology3. Possible changes identified by Sentinel-2 methodology4. Possible changes identified by Sentinel-2 methodology with shift period (less probable)