Enhanced Land Use Classification of 2009 for the Rur catchment

This data set contains the enhanced land use
classification of 2009 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 "Advanced Spaceborne Thermal Emission and Reflection
Radiometer" (ASTER) and RapidEye. For the land use analysis datasets and of the
following acquisition dates were used from RapidEye: May 24, June 01, August 15/16, August 31
and September 08. From ASTER a dataset of July 27 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.