Degree of Urban Dispersion (DIS) 2009 (LEAC Grid), Nov. 2016

The degree of urban dispersion (DIS) characterizes the settlement pattern in a geometric perspective and is based on the distances between any two points within built-up areas (average taken over all possible pairs of points, up to a maximum distance called the horizon of perception). DIS is input to the Weighted Urban Proliferation (WUP) metric, which has three components: the percentage of built-up areas (PBA), the dispersion of the built-up areas (DIS), and land uptake per person (LUP).

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.

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

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2017-01-13
Date (Creation)
2016-11-30
Citation identifier
eea_r_3035_1_km_dis2009_p_2008-2009_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

N
S
E
W




Extent

Temporal extent

Time period
2008-01-01 2009-12-31
Maintenance and update frequency
Unknown
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Population distribution — demography

  • Land use

  • Buildings

GEMET

  • urbanisation

  • built environment

  • built-up area

  • urban sprawl

Continents, countries, sea regions of the world.

  • EEA39

Spatial scope
EEA topics

  • Land use

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).

Resource constraints

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations to public access
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_dis2009_p_2008-2009_v01_r00

OnLine resource

Direct download

OnLine resource

https://land.discomap.eea.europa.eu/arcgis/rest/services/Urban_Sprawl/DIS_1km_2009y/MapServer

OnLine resource

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Dispersion (DIS) LEAC 2009

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) DIS 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-produkte/urban-sprawl-metrics-tool-usm/

Hierarchy level
Dataset

Reference System Information

Reference System Information

Code
EPSG:3035

Metadata

Metadata identifier
eab04cf7-ef5d-416f-9a80-a5ec9a06ccef

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8
Contact
Organisation Individual Electronic mail address Website Role

European Environment Agency

sdi@eea.europa.eu

Point of contact

Type of resource

Resource type
Dataset
Metadata linkage

https://sdi.eea.europa.eu/catalogue/srv/api/records/eab04cf7-ef5d-416f-9a80-a5ec9a06ccef

Date info (Creation)
2018-04-04T13:48:35Z
Date info (Revision)
2025-10-09T11:21:01.793588Z

Metadata standard

Title

ISO 19115/19139

Edition

1.0

 
 
Access to the catalogue

Overviews

Spatial extent

Keywords

EEA topics

Land use
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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