Natural grasslands across mainland France: A dataset including a 10 m raster and ground reference points.

ABSTRACT: The data provided here include the first 10 m raster of natural grasslands across mainland France and related ground reference points. The latter consist of 1770 field observations that describe natural and artificial grasslands from respectively a compilation of hundreds of field-based vegetation maps and the European Union Land Parcel Identification System (LPIS). Based on analysis of aerial images, ground reference points were manually extracted from grassland polygons of the field-based vegetation maps and the LPIS within herbaceous areas larger than 30 × 30 m. The raster data of natural grasslands were derived from five annual 10 m land cover maps of France from 2016-2020. Pixels classified as ``grassland'' every year from 2016-2020 were considered natural grasslands, while those clas

SUBMITTER: Panhelleux L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10336393 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature