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Sustainable intendification - land-use change between 2000 and 2020
The published land use data from three regions in Switzerland were part of the project “What is Sustainable Intensification? Operationalizing Sustainable Agricultural Pathways in Europe (SIPATH)”, which was funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation (grant no. CRSII5_183493). The overall objective of this project was to assess short-term trajectories in agriculture land use and landscape structure over a period of 20 years for 16 individual study sites located in 11 countries, ranging from the Mediterranean to the boreal zone. The following datasets illustrate land use data that were generated for the three study sites in Switzerland at two points in time between 2000 and 2020, depending on data availability. The data collection process encompassed land use mapping through visual image interpreta-tion of orthorectified aerial photographs using geographic information systems (ESRI ArcGIS Pro). Land use digitalization was conducted by two scientists in Switzerland, who were in contact with the respective project partners in the study countries to exchange expert knowledge. Minimal mapping unit was 25m2 for areal elements. Land cover was classified following the European Nature Information System (EUNIS) habitat classification (EEA 2019). The broadest habitat classes were systematically mapped in the study sites, with each covering an area of approximately 25 km². While EUNIS focuses on habitat types, the study, however, targeted the intensity of agricultural land-use, several EUNIS classes were com-plemented with levels of land-use intensities. This was applied for grassland, olive groves and fruit orchards. The spatial resolution of the orthophotos ranged from 25cm to 2m. Ac-cordingly, there were situations in which the spatial resolution was insufficient to accurately determine the land use. In such cases, either orthophotos from about the same year were consulted, possibly showing different phenological stages, or land use statistics and expert judgement based on local expert knowledge of the respective study area were applied.
The data of all regions are published on the data repository Zenodo.
Reference:
EEA, 2019. EUNIS habitat classification 2007 (Revised descriptions 2012) amended 2019. Copenhagen
Simple
- Alternate title
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Land-use change between 2000 and 2020
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-08
- Identifier
- -- techn Layername / nom technique de la couche --
- Purpose
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Comparison of land use in 2000 and 2020 regarding land use intensity
- Status
- Completed
Custodian
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
Spatial resolution
Equivalent scale
- Denominator
- 5000
Spatial resolution
- Spatial resolution
- 0.5 m
- Topic category
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- S Farming
- A Imagery base maps earth cover
Extent
Extent
- Description
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Merenschwand
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Extent
Extent
- Description
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Schüpfheim
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Extent
Extent
- Description
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Hospental
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- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
Resource format
- Title
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ESRI File Geodatabase FileGDB (GDB)
- Date
Resource format
- Title
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OGC Geopackage (GPKG)
- Date
- geocat.ch
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agricultural exploitation
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- GEMET themes
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agriculture
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agriculture
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Resource constraints
- Use limitation
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Zitat Publikation
- Access constraints
- Copyright
- Use constraints
- Copyright
- Other constraints
- Opendata BY: Open use. Must provide the source.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
- User note
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Datensatz kann bei Zenodo heruntergeladen werden
Associated resource
- Title
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-- Bezeichnung gemäss: «Bezeichnung GeoIV» (in GeoIV Anhang 1, Spalte B) --
- Association Type
- Reference to a master resource of which this one is a part
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Subtopic Category
- A2 Land Cover, Land Use
- Basic Geodata
- false
- Basic Geodata Legal Level
- Federal
- Basic Geodata Type
- openData
- Distribution format
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ESRI File Geodatabase FileGDB (GDB)
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OGC Geopackage (GPKG)
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Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Link zum Projekt
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Link zum Projekt
Digital transfer options
- OnLine resource
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Link zu Zenodo
The data are published at Zenodo and can there be dowloaded
- Topology level
- Full planar graph
- Geometric object type
- Surface
- Number of dimensions
- 2
- Cell geometry
- Area
- Reference system identifier
- LV95 EPSG:2056
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 61c7f4cd-a5c9-47d9-9341-2605846e230b
- Language
- Deutsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Français
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Italiano
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
- Language
- Rumantsch
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Custodian
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://www.geocat.ch/geonetwork/srv/api/records/61c7f4cd-a5c9-47d9-9341-2605846e230b
- Date info (Creation)
- 2024-12-03T08:51:22.889Z
- Date info (Revision)
- 2026-05-27T07:31:23.091465Z
Metadata standard
- Title
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eCH-0271
