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Published September 30, 2024 | Version habitatmap_terr_2020_v2
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habitatmap_terr: the interpreted, terrestrial part of habitatmap_stdized

  • 1. Research Institute for Nature and Forest (INBO)

Description

The data source habitatmap_terr is the further interpreted, terrestrial part of 'habitatmap_stdized' (which, in turn, was derived from the raw data source 'habitatmap'). It is a GeoPackage that contains:

  • habitatmap_terr_polygons: a spatial polygon layer in the Belgian Lambert 72 coordinate reference system (EPSG-code 31370);

  • habitatmap_terr_types: a table with the types that occur in each polygon.

This version of habitatmap_terr was derived from version 'habitatmap_stdized_2020_v1' as follows:

  • it excludes all polygons that are most probably aquatic habitat or RIB. These are the polygons for which all habitat or RIB types are aquatic. In the process, a distinction was also made between 2190_a and 2190_overig. There is no exclusion of aquatic types when these coexist with terrestrial types in the same polygon;

  • it excludes types which most probably are no habitat or RIB at all. Those are the types where code_orig contains "bos" or is equal to "6510,gh" or "9120,gh";

  • it translates several main type codes into a corresponding subtype which they almost always represent: 6410 -> 6410_mo, 6430 -> 6430_hf, 6510 -> 6510_hu, 7140 -> 7140_meso, 9130 -> 9130_end;

  • it distinguishes types rbbhfl and rbbhf.

See R-code in the GitHub repository 'n2khab-preprocessing' at commit dfdd73d for its creation from the habitatmap_stdized data source.

A reading function to return the data source in a standardized way into the R environment is provided by the R-package n2khab.

Attributes of habitatmap_terr_polygons:

  • polygon_id

  • description_orig: polygon description based on the original type codes in the habitatmap data source

  • description: based on description_orig but with the interpreted type codes

  • source: states where description comes from: either habitatmap_stdized or habitatmap_stdized + interpretation

Attributes of habitatmap_terr_types:

  • polygon_id

  • type: the interpreted habitat or RIB type.

  • certain: TRUE when the type is certain and FALSE when the type is uncertain.

  • code_orig: original type code in raw habitatmap.

  • phab: proportion of polygon covered by type, as a percentage.

  • source: states where type comes from: either habitatmap_stdized or habitatmap_stdized + interpretation

Notes

This version is almost identical to version habitatmap_terr_2020_v1. The only difference is that the combination of polygon_id, type and certain in the habitatmap_terr_types table has been made unique, so that they can serve as a primary key in this table. Fixing this had consequences in just one polygon.

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References

  • De Saeger, S., Guelinckx, R., Oosterlynck, P., De Bruyn, A., Debusschere, K., Dhaluin, P., Erens, R., Hendrickx, P., Hennebel, D., Jacobs, I., Kumpen, M., Op De Beeck, J., Spanhove, T., Tamsyn, W., Van Oost, F., Van Dam, G., Van Hove, M., Wils, C., Paelinckx, D. (2020). Biologische Waarderingskaart en Natura 2000 Habitatkaart, uitgave 2020. (Rapporten van het Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek; Nr. 35). Instituut voor Natuur- en Bosonderzoek (INBO). DOI: https://doi.org/10.21436/inbor.18840851
  • De Saeger S., Oosterlynck P. & Paelinckx D. (2017). The Biological Valuation Map (BVM): a field-driven survey of land cover and vegetation in the Flemish Region of Belgium. Documents phytosociologiques - Actes du colloque de Saint-Mandé 2012 - Prodrome et cartographie des végétations de France - 2017 - Vol. 6: 372-382.