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.