Land Uptake per Person (inhabitants and jobs) (LUP) 2006 (LEAC Grid), Nov. 2016

The new urban sprawl metric, named "Weighted Urban Proliferation“ (WUP) is based on the following definition of urban sprawl: the more area is built over in a given landscape (amount of built-up area) and the more dispersed this built-up area is in the landscape (spatial configuration), and the higher the uptake of built-up area per inhabitant or job (lower utilisation intensity in the built-up area), the higher the degree of urban sprawl.

Weighted Urban Proliferation (WUP) metric has three components: the percentage of built-up areas (PBA), the dispersion of the built-up areas (DIS), and land uptake per person (LUP).

Land uptake per person (inhabitants and jobs) (LUP) describes the use of urban built-up area by people working and living in that area.

Identification info

Date (Publication): 2016-12-16

Date (Creation): 2016-11-30

Edition: 01.00

Citation identifier: eea_r_3035_1_km_lup2006_p_2005-2006_v01_r00

Point of contact

Organisation	Individual	Electronic mail address	Website	Role
European Environment Agency		sdi@eea.europa.eu	http://www.eea.europa.eu	Point of contact

Spatial representation type: Grid

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution: 1 km

Topic category

Environment

Extent

Temporal extent

Time period: 2005-01-01 2006-12-31

Maintenance and update frequency: Unknown

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Buildings
Population distribution — demography
Land use

GEMET

built-up area
inhabitant
urban sprawl
built environment
urbanisation

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

EU15
Bulgaria
Estonia
Czechia
Lithuania
Hungary
Romania
Poland
Slovenia
Slovakia
Latvia
EFTA4
Malta

Spatial scope

European

EEA topics

Land use
Buildings and construction
Urban sustainability

Resource constraints

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: no limitations to public access

Resource constraints

Use constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: License CC-BY 4.0 ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

Language: English

Character encoding: UTF8

Distribution Information

Distribution format

GeoTIFF

OnLine resource

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_1_km_lup2006_p_2005-2006_v01_r00/

OnLine resource: Direct download (Eionet authentication)

OnLine resource

https://land.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Urban_Sprawl/LUP_1km_2006y/MapServer

OnLine resource: 0

Land-Uptake per Person (LUP) LEAC 2006

Data quality info

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Report

Result

Title: Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: See the referenced specification

Resource lineage

Statement

The mapping computation steps are:

1) A built-up areas were selected from the raster High Resolution Layer – Imperviousness Degree (HRL IMD). Only these pixels, where IMD value >= 30% were selected as built-up.

2) The built-up areas layer together with the reference units layer were inputs to the computations (NUTS0, NUTS2 and 1km LEAC grid were used as the reference layers)

3) LUP values were computed by equations described in https://www.wsl.ch/fileadmin/user_upload/WSL/Services_Produkte/Software_Apps/USM/USM-Toolset-User-Manual.pdf (pages 2 and 17-18 )

4) Newly developed tool called “Urban Sprawl Metric Tool” is available on the https://www.wsl.ch/en/services-and-products/software-websites-and-apps/urban-sprawl-metrics-usm-toolset.html