Peninsular Malaysia 2018 Land Use Map with Nine Classes

Peninsular Malaysia's 2018 land use is mapped at a 25-meter grid resolution. The dataset includes nine distinct land cover classes such as non-paddy agriculture, paddy fields, and urban residential areas. It was created for the 'Malaysia - Flood Impact Across Scales' project funded by the Newton-Ungku Omar Fund.

Use Cases

• Train a semantic segmentation model to classify 25-meter grid cells into the nine land use classes.
• Analyze the spatial distribution of paddy fields versus non-paddy agriculture for agricultural planning.
• Assess urban development patterns by mapping urban residential, commercial/institutional, and industrial/infrastructure areas.
• Model flood impact scenarios by integrating land use classes like roads and rural residential areas with hydrological data.

Strengths

• Provides a consistent 25-meter resolution grid for the entire region of Peninsular Malaysia.
• Contains nine specifically defined land use classes, including distinct categories for paddy fields and urban types.
• Created for a focused research project on hydrometeorological hazards, suggesting a clear application purpose.

Limitations

• Data is from a single year (2018), limiting analysis of land use change over time.
• The 'others' class may aggregate diverse land covers, reducing interpretability for those areas.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

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Time Range

2018

Freshness

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Geography

Peninsular Malaysia