Monitoring land use changes using geo - information

Zeeuw, C.J. de and G.W. Hazeu, 2001. Monitoring land use changes using geo-information; possibilities, methods and adapted techniques. Wageningen, Alterra, Green World Research. Alterra-rapport 214/CGI-report 9. 84 blz., 18 fig.; 16 tab.; 46 ref. Monitoring of land use with geographical databases is widely used in policy decision-making. This reports presents the possibilities, methods and adapted techniques using geo-information for monitoring land use changes. The municipality of Soest was chosen as study area and three national land use databases; Top10Vector, CBS-land use statistics and LGN, were used. The restrictions of geo-information for monitoring land use changes are indicated. New methods and adapted techniques improve the monitoring result considerably. However, providers of geoinformation should co-ordinate on up-date frequencies, semantic content and spatial resolution to allow for better possibilities for monitoring land use by combining data sets.