Urban Land Use Dataset (1964-2001) of Maputo city, Mozambique

This dataset comprises land use maps of Maputo city, with exception of the KaTembe urban district, for the years 1964, 1973, 1982, 1991 and 2001. It is the digital version of the land use maps published by Henriques [1] and revised under the LUCO research project.

The land use of Maputo city was identified from: i) aerial photographs (1964, 1982, 1991), orthophoto maps (1973) and IKONOS images (2001); ii) documentary sources, such as the Urbanization Master Plan (1969) and the Maputo City Addressing (1997); iii) the recognition made during several field survey campaigns. The methodology is described in Henriques [1].

Land use was classified into three levels, resulting from a hierarchical classification system, including descriptive and parametric classes. Levels I and II are available in this repository.

Level I, composed by 10 classes, contains the main forms of occupation: built-up areas (residential, economic activity, equipment, and infrastructure) and non-built-up areas (vacant or "natural"). It is geared towards analyses that serve policymaking and resource management at the regional or national scale [1].

Level II, composed by 31 classes, discriminates the higher hierarchical level according to its functional land use to become useful for municipal planning and management in municipal master plans, for example [1].

Maps are available in shapefile format and include predefined symbology-legend files, for QGIS and ArcGIS (v.10.7 or higher). The urban land use classes are described in Portuguese and English, and their meaning is provided as an accompanying document (ULU_Maputo_Nomenclatura_PT.pdf / ULU_Maputo_Nomenclature_EN.pdf).

Data format: vector (shapefile, polygon)

Reference system: WGS84, UTM 36S (EPSG:32736)

Original minimum mapping unit: 25 m2

Urban Land Use dataset attributes:

[N_I_C] – code of level I

[N_I_D_PT] – name of level I, in Portuguese

[N_I_D_EN] - name of level I, in English

[N_II_C] – code of level II

[N_II_D_PT] - name of level II, in Portuguese

[N_II_D_EN] - name of level II, in English

Funding: this research was supported by national funds through FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, I.P. Project number: FCT AGA-KHAN/ 541731809 / 2019

[1] Henriques, C.D. (2008). Maputo. Cinco décadas de mudança territorial. O uso do solo observado por tecnologias de informação geográfica [Maputo. Five decades of territorial transformation. Land use assessed by geographical information technologies]. Lisboa, Instituto Português de Apoio ao Desenvolvimento (ISBN: 978-972-8975-22-7).