Land Use in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, at District Level for 2022

Land use thematic maps for the German state of Rhineland-Palatinate as of December 31, 2022. The data includes the percentage share of settlement, traffic, forest, and agricultural areas, as well as population density per square kilometer. The dataset is provided by the Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie and was last updated in June 2024.

Use Cases

• Modeling urban sprawl based on the percentage share of settlement and traffic area.
• Analyzing regional environmental sustainability based on forest and agricultural area coverage.
• Planning transportation infrastructure based on land use for transport data.
• Estimating service demand based on population density per square kilometer.

Strengths

• Data is current as of a specific date (31.12.2022).
• Provides percentage shares for key land use categories at the district level.
• Published by a national mapping and geodesy authority (Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie).

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count and dataset size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to a single German state.

Provenance

Source

Bundesamt für Kartographie und Geodäsie

Time Range

As of 2022-12-31

Freshness

Last updated 2024-06-30 00:00:00; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany (district level)