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Articles | Volume XLI-B4
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B4-227-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/isprs-archives-XLI-B4-227-2016
13 Jun 2016
 | 13 Jun 2016

THE URBIS PROJECT: IDENTIFICATION AND CHARACTERIZATION OF POTENTIAL URBAN DEVELOPMENT AREAS AS A WEB-BASED SERVICE

Nina Manzke, Martin Kada, Thomas Kastler, Shaojuan Xu, Norbert de Lange, and Manfred Ehlers

Keywords: Open Data, Information Services, Urban Atlas, Spatial Database, Vacant Land

Abstract. Urban sprawl and the related landscape fragmentation is a Europe-wide challenge in the context of sustainable urban planning. The URBan land recycling Information services for Sustainable cities (URBIS) project aims for the development, implementation, and validation of web-based information services for urban vacant land in European functional urban areas in order to provide end-users with site specific characteristics and to facilitate the identification and evaluation of potential development areas. The URBIS services are developed based on open geospatial data. In particular, the Copernicus Urban Atlas thematic layers serve as the main data source for an initial inventory of sites. In combination with remotely sensed data like SPOT5 images and ancillary datasets like OpenStreetMap, detailed site specific information is extracted. Services are defined for three main categories: i) baseline services, which comprise an initial inventory and typology of urban land, ii) update services, which provide a regular inventory update as well as an analysis of urban land use dynamics and changes, and iii) thematic services, which deliver specific information tailored to end-users' needs.