Greenhouse Horticulture Land Use in the Netherlands from 2012 Aerial Imagery

Vectorized greenhouse horticulture data for the Netherlands, created by the Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations. The dataset is based on the 1:10,000 vector topography from 2009 and aerial photographs flown in 2012. It is published under a Creative Commons Public Domain Mark 1.0 license.

Use Cases

• Map the spatial distribution of greenhouse horticulture based on the vectorized land use data.
• Analyze changes in agricultural land use by comparing the 2012 data with earlier or later versions.
• Conduct regional planning assessments based on the high-resolution 1:10,000 scale vector data.
• Validate or train land cover classification models using the manually vectorized greenhouse features.

Strengths

• Data is derived from high-resolution 1:10,000 scale base maps and 2012 aerial imagery.
• Published under a permissive public domain license (CC-PDM-1.0).
• Created by an authoritative national government ministry.

Limitations

• Row count and file size are unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, Netherlands)

Collection Method

Manual vectorization based on the 2009 1:10,000 vector topography and 2012 aerial photographs.

Time Range

2012 (aerial imagery date). The underlying base map is from 2009.

Freshness

Last updated date is unknown.

Geography

Likely covers the Netherlands, given the source organization.