This EU LCZ map readme.txt file was generated on 2020-12-02 by Matthias Demuzere ------------------- GENERAL INFORMATION ------------------- Title of Dataset: European LCZ map Principal Authors Information: Principal Investigator: Matthias Demuzere (matthias.demuzere ~at~ rub.de) Alternate Contact: Benjamin Bechtel (benjamin.bechtel ~at~ rub.de) Summary: A European Local Climate Zone map at a 100 m spatial resolution, derived from multiple Earth Observation datasets and expert LCZ class labels. There are 10 urban LCZ types, each associated with a set of relevant variables such that the map represent a valuable database of urban properties. => Please read the paper carefully for more details on methods, underlying datasets, quality control, accuracy, its relevance and usage notes. IMPORTANT: The .geotif version in this archive has been filtered using the Gaussian filter procedure as elaborated in Demuzere et al. (2020). -------------------------- SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION -------------------------- Licenses/restrictions placed on the data, or limitations of reuse: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. Recommended citations for the data: - Demuzere, M., Bechtel, B., Middel, A., & Mills, G. (2019). Mapping Europe into local climate zones. PLOS ONE, 14(4), e0214474. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0214474 - Demuzere, M., Bechtel, B., Middel, A., & Mills, G. (2020). European LCZ map. 10.6084/m9.figshare.13322450 Other Notes: Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this data and associated documentation files, to use these data without restriction, subject to the following: - Understand that these data are created by crowd sourcing and machine learning and thus will naturally contain some errors. It comes as it is without any warranty. - The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the data. - The authors (or generically WUDAPT contributors) are acknowledged. - For scientific use, the following papers could be cited to introduce the LCZ concepts: * Stewart, I. D., & Oke, T. R. (2012). Local Climate Zones for Urban Temperature Studies. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 93(12), 1879–1900. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-11-00019.1 * Bechtel B, Daneke C (2012) Classification of Local Climate Zones based on multiple Earth Observation data. IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing 5:1191-1202 * Bechtel B, Alexander PJ, Böhner J, Ching J, Conrad O, Feddema J, Mills G, See L, Stewart I (2015) Mapping Local Climate Zones for a Worldwide Database of the Form and Function of Cities. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information 4:199-219 * Ching, J., Mills, G., Bechtel, B., See, L., Feddema, J., Wang, X., … Theeuwes, N. (2018). WUDAPT: An Urban Weather, Climate, and Environmental Modeling Infrastructure for the Anthropocene. Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society, 99(9), 1907–1924. https://doi.org/10.1175/BAMS-D-16-0236.1 * Bechtel, B., Alexander, P. J., Beck, C., Böhner, J., Brousse, O., Ching, J., … Xu, Y. (2019). Generating WUDAPT Level 0 data – Current status of production and evaluation. Urban Climate, 27, 24–45. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2018.10.001 * Demuzere, M., Bechtel, B., & Mills, G. (2019). Global transferability of local climate zone models. Urban Climate, 27, 46–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2018.11.001 * Demuzere, M., Hankey, S., Mills, G., Zhang, W., Lu, T., & Bechtel, B. (2020). Combining expert and crowd-sourced training data to map urban form and functions for the continental US. Scientific Data, 7(1), 264. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-020-00605-z * Demuzere M, Kittner J, Bechtel B. LCZ Generator: A Web Application to Create Local Climate Zone Maps. Front Environ Sci. 2021;9. doi:10.3389/fenvs.2021.637455 -------------------- DATA & FILE OVERVIEW -------------------- Files and brief description: 1. EU_LCZ_map.tif This is a compressed geotif of the European LCZ map, with classes indicated by numbers 1-17. The table below describes the class number | official class description | official hex color. LCZ 1 | Compact highrise | '#910613' LCZ 2 | Compact midrise | '#D9081C' LCZ 3 | Compact lowrise | '#FF0A22' LCZ 4 | Open highrise | '#C54F1E' LCZ 5 | Open midrise | '#FF6628' LCZ 6 | Open lowrise | '#FF985E' LCZ 7 | Lightweight low-rise | '#FDED3F' LCZ 8 | Large lowrise | '#BBBBBB' LCZ 9 | Sparsely built | '#FFCBAB' LCZ 10 | Heavy Industry | '#565656' LCZ 11 (A) | Dense trees | '#006A18' LCZ 12 (B) | Scattered trees | '#00A926' LCZ 13 (C) | Bush, scrub | '#628432' LCZ 14 (D) | Low plants | '#B5DA7F' LCZ 15 (E) | Bare rock or paved | '#000000' LCZ 16 (F) | Bare soil or sand | '#FCF7B1' LCZ 17 (G) | Water | '#656BFA' Other characteristics: - Projection: ETRS89 / ETRS-LAEA (EPSG:3035) (matching the projection used by the European Environmental Agency - https://www.eea.europa.eu/data-and-maps/data/eea-reference-grids-1/about-the-eea-reference-grid/eea_reference_grid_v1.pdf/at_download/file) - Spatial Resolution: 100 m - Representative for 2016 - Overall average accuracy (%): 80 (see Fig. 6 in Demuzere et al. (2019) for more info) 2. EU_LCZ_map_epsg4326.tif Same as EU_LCZ_map.tif, but using the the World Geodetic System 1984 (EPSG:4326) projection 3. cmap_Qgis_WUDAPT_LCZ.txt A QGIS (https://qgis.org/) generated LCZ Color Map Export File to display the geotif in the corresponding LCZ colors. 4. EU_LCZ_map.qgz A QGIS (https://qgis.org/) package file that displays the LCZ map together with the appropriate colors. When opening the project file, please adjust the filepath pointing to the LCZ map .tif file. Tested on QGIS > 3.12 5. EU_LCZ_map.mpk An ArcGIS (https://www.arcgis.com/) package file that displays the LCZ map together with the appropriate colors. Just drag and drop the file into ArcMap's map window to open it. If there are there multiple versions of the dataset, list the file updated, when and why update was made: v1.0 | 2019-04-24 | initial release of the raw data v2.0 | 2020-12-02 | gaussian filtered version + Q/Arc-GIS packages and color information. v3.0 | 2021-06-09 | Adding LCZ map in EPSG 4326 + fixing some typos.