LGN6: Rural Land Use The Netherlands

The LGN6 file is a land-covered grid with a resolution of 25 meters in which 39 forms of land use are distinguished. The stock distinguishes the main agricultural crops, a number of nature classes and urban classes. The LGN6 file has undergone some important changes compared to LGN5. The geometry and thematics on main classes are now based entirely on Top10vector (version 2006). Agricultural plots, greenhouses, orchards, fruit farms, nurseries, sand, heath, forests, water and infrastructure have been taken over from Top10vector. The urban area is defined by the stocks Limiting Built Area (BG2003) and Resistant Land Use (BBG). Satellite images from 2007 and 2008, aerial photographs, Basemap Nature 2007 (BKN2007) and LGN5 were used for further interpretation of the main classes. The definitions of the land use classes have been tightened. Land use files LGN1 and LGN2 were still experimental files with limited accuracy and obvious shortcomings. In LGN3, these shortcomings have largely been solved and LGN3plus greatly improved the usability of the stock for applications in the field of nature and ecology. With the LGN4 file, a new step has been taken by extending the application possibilities of the LGN file. Major improvements made to the LGN4 stock include linking agricultural crops to TOP10 vector and the possibility of detecting land-use changes that occurred in the period 1995-2000. The versions 1-3 of the LGN file were supplied as a single raster file. The LGN6 file, like the LGN4 and LGN5 file, does not consist of a single raster file, but forms a collection of files.