Short description
The Urban Atlas (UA) is providing pan-European comparable land use and land cover data for Functional Urban Areas. Freely available datasets with land use / land cover information for the years 2006 and 2012 for almost all cities in European Union with at least 100,000 population are available.
With the UA dataset, the development of European cities can be analysed in many different ways. One way is to estimate percentage coverages for different land use classes, which does not consider the change of patterns of land uses or spatially explicit change. Such spatially explicit change patterns can be revealed through the analysis of spatial metrics / landscape metrics, which can be applied in zones, e.g. like administrative units or regular grids/hexagons.
Within this master thesis, landscape metrics - valid to be used in a zonal analysis - should be selected and applied to describe the LULC change of selected cities between 2006 and 2012.
As a starting point, the open source tool ZonalMetrics (Python Toolbox for ArcGIS) can be used and finally extended by additionally proposed metrics.
References/Suggested reading:
- Prastacos, P., Lagarias, A., & Chrysoulakis, N. (2017). Using the Urban Atlas dataset for estimating spatial metrics. Methodology and application in urban areas of Greece. Cybergeo: European Journal of Geography.
- Adamczyk, J., Tiede, D., 2017. ZonalMetrics - a Python toolbox for zonal landscape structure analysis. Comput. Geosci. 99, 91–99. doi:10.1016/j.cageo.2016.11.005
Prerequisites/qualification:
Interest in the topic ++
Python ++
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