High resolution land use forecasts for Switzerland in the 21st century

DOI

We present forecasts of land-use/land-cover (LULC) change for Switzerland for three time-steps in the 21st century under the representative concentration pathways 4.5 and 8.5, and at 100-m spatial and 14-class thematic resolution. We modelled the spatial suitability for each LULC class with a neural network (NN) using >200 predictors and accounting for climate and policy changes. We used data augmentation to increase performance for underrepresented classes, resulting in an overall quantity disagreement of 0.053 and allocation disagreement of 0.15, which indicate good model performance. These class-specific spatial suitability maps outputted by the NN were then merged in a single LULC map per time-step using the CLUE-S algorithm, accounting for LULC demand for the future and a set of LULC transition rules. As the first LULC forecast for Switzerland at a thematic resolution comparable to available LULC maps for the past, this product lends itself to applications in land-use planning, resource management, ecological and hydraulic modelling, habitat restoration and conservation.

Identifier
DOI https://doi.org/10.16904/envidat.458
Metadata Access https://www.envidat.ch/api/action/package_show?id=69945cd4-3dfc-4b1d-bdd4-e88cc577c3c9
Provenance
Creator Luca, Bütikofer, 0000-0001-8220-7520; Antoine, Adde, 0000-0003-4388-0880; Davnah, Urbach, 0000-0001-9170-7834; Silvia, Tobias,; Matthias, Huss, 0000-0002-2377-6923; Antoine, Guisan, 0000-0002-3998-4815; Christophe, Randin,
Publisher EnviDat
Publication Year 2023
Funding Reference Swiss Federal Office for the Environment, Contract No 20.0084.PJ / 24FCC5025 / 95D1FD372
Rights cc-by-sa; Creative Commons Attribution Share-Alike (CC-BY-SA)
OpenAccess true
Contact envidat(at)wsl.ch
Representation
Language English
Resource Type Dataset
Version 1.0
Discipline Environmental Sciences
Spatial Coverage (5.956W, 45.818S, 10.492E, 47.808N); Switzerland
Temporal Coverage Begin 2022-01-03T00:00:00Z
Temporal Coverage End 2023-03-21T00:00:00Z