1. Lucas in NL Harmonised Land Use/ Land Cover Statistics, Part A
Statistics NL & Alterra

2. Main datasource – Land Use Statistics
Lucas – Land Use
Main datasource – Land Use Statistics
Lucas in NL

3. Compliance and precision
Lucas – Land Use
Compliance and precision
95 percent
already available!
1:10 000
Lucas in NL

4. Remaining 5 percent – establishments
Lucas – Land Use
Remaining 5 percent – establishments
Lucas in NL

5. Harmonised data for 95% of the area
Lucas – Land Use
Nederland
Noord-Nederland (LD)
Oost-Nederland (LD)
West-Nederland (LD)
Zuid-Nederland (LD)
Groningen (PV)
Friesland (PV)
Drenthe (PV)
Overijssel (PV)
Flevoland (PV)
Gelderland (PV)
Utrecht (PV)
Noord-Holland (PV)
Zuid-Holland (PV)
Zeeland (PV)
Noord-Brabant (PV)
Limburg (PV)
Total area ha
729101
296003
574874
268037
342086
241230
513651
144912
409176
341850
293389
508176
220922
Agriculture
641230
644269
550961
443206
188470
261328
191431
240862
99858
303550
82484
161034
168952
138493
310852
132353
Forestry
344792
51657
146236
43221
103679
7577
11494
32586
34965
17657
93614
18412
13009
7925
3874
71856
31822
Mining and quarrying
5638
1951
1359
272
2056
808
377
766
528
831
131 61 81
770
1285
Aquaculture and fishing
Other primary production
Commercial services
9016
1262
2163
3925
1666
431
502
329
823
234
1105
603
1536
1509
277
1051
614
Transport networks
889200
328805
153111
362295
44989
69318
249241
10246
19232
102977
30902
11847
153613
73393
123444
32136
12853
Residential use
251321
36851
59049
92977
62443
11169
13306
12376
18725
5958
34367
15763
31814
36237
9163
41158
21283
Permanent residential use
230103
32734
51999
86909
58460
10725
11705
10304
16559
5336
30105
15059
30022
34852
6976
38691
19768
Temporary residential use
21218
4117
7050
6068
3983
444
1601
2072
2166
622
4262
704
1792
1385
2187
2467
1515
Other Uses or no socio-economic use
177006
51445
45601
57263
22696
9256
29607
12581
13707
7600
24294
4069
21828
19622
11744
17918
4777
Transitional use
36795
6166
8396
14849
7384
2518
1992
1656
2058
2600
3737
1898
4331
6499
2122
5947
1436
Abandoned areas
Natural areas not in other economic use
140211
45279
37205
42414
15312
6738
27615
10925
11649
5000
20557
2171
17497
13123
9622
11971
3341
Other use, not yet harmonised with Lucas
197668
25715
45179
78412
48366
8974
9019
7722
13244
6946
24988
11603
26281
34131
6394
32435
15935
Harmonised with Lucas
680735
287029
565855
260315
328842
234284
488663
133309
382895
307719
286995
475741
204987
Percentage of area harmonised with LUCAS
95,0
97,7
95,7
92,9
96,9
98,4
97,0
96,0
94,9
91,3
93,1
88,9
97,8
93,2
92,2
Percentage of area not yet harmonised
5,0
2,3
4,3
7,1
3,1
1,6
3,0
4,0
5,1
8,7
6,9
11,1
2,2
6,8
7,8
Results
Harmonised data for 95% of the area
Method of assigning LUCAS for remaining 5%
Nuts 1, Nuts 2, Nuts 3 and LAU
No neighbourhood level...
Conform national Land Use statistics
Lucas in NL

6. Remember… only for 5% of the total area!
Lucas – Land Use
Main uncertainties…
inaccuracy in method…
assigning establishments to areas (distance)
percentages area on number of establishments
areas without establishments - main lucas code
primary schools not included (our decision)
Remember… only for 5% of the total area!
Lucas in NL

7. Data NL Part A available after this pilot
Lucas – Land Use
Data NL Part A available after this pilot
Harmonised Lucas, aligned with national data
Quality of data increased
No field work required
Frequency each 2-3 years
Lucas in NL

8. LUCAS Land Cover in the Netherlands
Methodology and first results
10 June 2013, Gerard Hazeu, Sander Mucher & Rini Schuiling

9. Data sources Data sources Topographical map version 2012 (Top10NL)
National Land Use/Cover database 2012 (LGN7)
Crop information from LPIS (BRP2012)
National Land Use database (BBG2008)
Natural Area database (BKN2012)
Spatial detail:
Vector: 1:
Grid: 25*25m

10. Attribution of Top10NL to LUCAS LC categories
Water and road elements are used together with terrain to cover entire NL
Refinement with additional information (imperviousness, width of road, buildings, railways)
Example for terrain elements
Remaining/rest LC category

11. Statistics of LUCAS categories province of Utrecht
12.7% rest category from Top10 NL

12. Spatial allocation of LUCAS categories Province of Utrecht
Top10NL aggregation
Reference year 2012

13. Thanks for your attention