Urban morphological zones changes 1990-2000 (UMZ1990-2000)

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Created : Nov 13, 2009 Published : Jan 01, 2002 Last modified : Jan 08, 2013 03:50 PM

F1v0 - Urban morphological zones (UMZ) are defined by Corine land cover classes considered to contribute to the urban tissue and function

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Mar 14, 2011 - Urban morphological zones changes 1990-2000 (UMZ1990-2000)

GIS data

Zipped geodatabase (mdb), vector, polygon

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Zipped shapefile, vector, polygon

Shapefile extracted from the UMZChanges_F1v0 geodatabase

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Methodology

Urban morphological zones changes - Methodology

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Metadata

Relation:: Parent data set: Urban morphological zones 2000 (UMZ2000); Parent data set: Urban morphological zones 1990 (UMZ1990)
Last upload:: 26 Apr 2007
Geographical coverage:
Geographic accuracy:: 100 m
Tags:: urban | raster data | urban sprawl | geospatial data | EEA owned data sets | vector data | UMZ | population
Scale of the data set:: 1:100000
Rights:: EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged (http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).
Methodology:: Procedural steps 1. Reclassification of Corine Land Cover (CLC2000) for UMZ2000. CLC is reclassified according to the classes described above. 2. Ports, airports, sport facilities, roads, railways, rivers and forest and scrub classes fully within the urban area were added to the classes. 3. The UMZ's were built up using a expansion/shrinking method. 4. The population numbers were calculated on basis of JRC's 2001 Population grid. Finally the population numbers and attributes (Commune codes) were assigned to the UMZ's UMZ Changes have been calculated by unioning UMZ90 and UMZ00 layers and removing all areas which were UMZ in both years. The remaining polygons are considered as positive changes when they are new UMZ areas in 2000 and negative changes when it was UMZ in 1990 and not in 2000 (Some negative changes might be due to different interpretations between 1990-2000).
Coordinate reference system:: EPSG:3035
Data sources: Corrected CLC1990 for UMZ1990 and CLC2000 for UMZ2000, JRC's 2001 population (created by Javier Gallego).
Owners:: European Environment Agency (EEA)
Processors:: The European Topic Centre on Land Use and Spatial Information

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Additional information

The land cover classes are: 111 Continuous urban fabric 112 Discontinuous urban fabric 121 Industrial or commercial units 141 Green urban areas 123 (Port areas), 124 (Airports) and 142 (Sport and leisure facilities), are also considered if they are neighbours to the core classes or to one of them touching the core classes: Enlarged core classes 122 (Road and rail networks) and 511 (Water courses), when neighbours to the enlarged core classes, cut by 300m buffer Forest & scrub (311,312,313,322,323,324), when they are completely within the core classes