A lattice dataset with Bologna Urban Morphological Zones.
data_bolognaA matrix with 120 rows and 96 columns. Values are either 0 (non-urban) or 1 (urban).
This raster/pixel/lattice dataset comes from the EU CORINE Land Cover project (EEA, 2011) and is dated 2011. It is the result of classifying the original land cover data into urbanised and non-urbanised zones, known as 'Urban Morphological Zones' (UMZ, see EEA, 2011). UMZ data are useful to identify shapes and patterns of urban areas, and thus to detect what is known as urban sprawl. The Bologna metropolitan area is extracted from the European dataset and is composed by the municipality of Bologna and the surrounding municipalities. The dataset is made of 120x96 pixels of size 250x250 metres.