Inspire WMS Service Land Use Tirol

Based on the results of the research project Land Information System Austria LISA (cf. LISA 2014), the current land use for Tyrol is prepared on behalf of the Tyrolean state government. The land uses are derived from existing public spatial data from the Tyrolean spatial information system tiris. The aim is to provide a digital, homogeneous, quality-controlled and updateable land monitoring dataset. Lisa distinguishes between two sets of classes: Land cover and land use. The ground cover reflects the actual state of the terrain surface and is produced exclusively from remote sensing data. Land use, on the other hand, places the real, human-influenced or caused aspect of use of the earth’s surface in the foreground. The land use dataset is divided into six main classes called blocks: Settlement, transport, agriculture, forest, natural areas and waters. Land use is associated with the INSPIRE data topic Land use (Annex III)