Rural Land Use Netherlands — LGN2019

The LGN2019 file is a land-covered grid with a resolution of 5 meters in which 48 forms of land use are distinguished. Reference year 2019. The stock distinguishes the main agricultural crops, a number of nature classes and urban classes. The geometry and thematics on main classes are based entirely on Top10NL (version 2019). Agricultural plots, greenhouses, orchards, fruit farms, nurseries, sand, heath, forests, water and infrastructure have been taken over from Top10NL. The urban area is defined by means of Land Use Resistant (BBG2015). The agricultural area is filled with (aggregated) crops from BRP2019 supplemented by crop classifications based on LGN2018. No adjustments have been made within the area of nature compared to LGN2018. 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 LGN7 file, like the LGN4, LGN5 and LGN6 file, does not consist of a single grid file, but forms a collection of files.