Change of permanent grasslands extent (1996-2015) and national grassland dataset of Switzerland.

ABSTRACT: So far, neither a grassland map, temporal analysis of the conversion of permanent grassland (PG) to other land uses nor the differentiation of permanent and temporal grassland exists for Switzerland. For the first time in Switzerland, we present a Swiss national grassland map for the year 2015 capturing the extent of both, permanent and temporal grasslands (here called grasslands) by intersecting the information of three datasets. We blended the high temporal resolution Climate Change Initiate (CCI) Land Cover of 2015 (processed by the European Space Agency (ESA)), with the high spatial resolution Swiss topographical landscape model "SwissTLM3D" and the landscape model "vector25" both provided by Swisstopo. The final data presents the spatial patterns and the national extent of Swiss grass

SUBMITTER: Schmidt S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6172429 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature