Urban Permeation (UP) 2009 (LEAC Grid), Nov. 2016

Urban Permeation (UP) is a measure of the permeation of a landscape by built‑up areas; it describes the degree to which the landscape is permeated by patches of built-up area. It is calculated from the new urban sprawl metric "Weighted Urban Proliferation“ (WUP). Weighted Urban Proliferation 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.

The 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).

UP is a product of PBA and DIS. It represents the spread of the built-up areas in the landscape. UP is expressed in urban permeation units per m2 of land (UPU/m2).

The UP dataset is used in EEA's Urban Sprawl work indicating urbanisation impacts on the land system. It covers EEA39.

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Date (Publication)
2017-01-13
Date (Creation)
2016-11-30
Citation identifier
eea_r_3035_1_km_up2009_p_2008-2009_v02_r00
Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

http://www.eea.europa.eu Point of contact

Point of contact

No information provided.
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land use

  • Buildings

  • Population distribution — demography
Keywords
    Keywords

      GEMET

      • built-up area

      • built environment

      • urban sprawl

      • urbanisation

      Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

      • EEA39
      Spatial scope

      EEA topics

      • Buildings and construction

      • Land use

      • Urban sustainability
      Access constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints
      no limitations to public access
      Use constraints
      Other restrictions
      Other constraints

      EEA standard re-use policy: unless otherwise indicated, re-use of content on the EEA website for commercial or non-commercial purposes is permitted free of charge, provided that the source is acknowledged ( http://www.eea.europa.eu/legal/copyright). Copyright holder: European Environment Agency (EEA).

      Spatial representation type
      Grid
      Distance
      1  km
      Language of dataset
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Topic category
      • Environment
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      Begin date
      2008-01-01
      End date
      2009-12-31
      Coordinate reference system identifier
      EPSG:3035
      Distribution format
      • GeoTIFF ( 2016)

      OnLine resource
      Protocol Linkage Name

      EEA:FILEPATH

             		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/webdav/datastore/public/eea_r_3035_1_km_up2009_p_2008-2009_v02_r00/UP2009_G1km.tif

      WWW:URL

             		https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/data/e09a23b9-5ee8-4610-bcad-c1fcd496634a

      Direct download (Eionet authentication)

      ESRI:REST

             		https://land.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Urban_Sprawl/UP_1km_2009y/MapServer

      OGC:WMS

             		https://land.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/services/Urban_Sprawl/UP_1km_2009y/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

      0
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset

      Conformance 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
      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) UP 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

      Metadata

      File identifier
      e09a23b9-5ee8-4610-bcad-c1fcd496634a XML
      Metadata language
      English
      Character set
      UTF8
      Hierarchy level
      Dataset
      Date stamp
      2022-03-28T08:51:34.784Z
      Metadata standard name

      ISO 19115/19139
      Metadata standard version

      1.0
      Metadata author
      Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Website Role

      European Environment Agency

      sdi@eea.europa.eu

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      Keywords

      EEA topics

      Buildings and construction Land use Urban sustainability
      GEMET

      built environment built-up area urban sprawl urbanisation
      GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

      Buildings Land use Population distribution — demography
      Spatial scope

      European


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