Land Suitability Surfaces for UK
Project to create land suitability surfaces for different land classes using intrinsic land variables. With help of these predictors, we could simulate suitability surfaces under different scenarios for future planning.
Plans
List of tasks to do based on meetings and to achieve the production of suitability surfaces:
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Cleaning
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Clean covariates
- make dictionary
- missing values
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Response variable
- include or not category 0
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Clean covariates
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Methodology
- Change of support using basis functions
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Multinomial probit model including:
- covariates
- spatial processes per category
- spatial cross-correlation between categories
- Can we separate land cover from human behaviour?
Variables
- Land cover - 1km
- Elevation - 1km
- Slope - 1km
- Growing degree day (GDD) - 1km
- Maximum annual temperature (Tmax) - 1km
- Absolute minimum temperature (Tmin) - 1km
- Soil moisture deficit (smd) - 1km
- Soil moisture surplus (sms) - 1km
- Population - 1km
- Distance to mayor cities - 1km
- Gross disposable household income (gdhi) - 1km
- 1km uk grid
Escenarios
- Growing degree day (GDD) - 1km
- Maximum annual temperature (Tmax) - 1km
- Absolute minimum temperature (Tmin) - 1km
- Soil moisture deficit (smd) - 1km
- Soil moisture surplus (sms) - 1km
- Population - 1km
- Distance to mayor cities - 1km
- Gross disposable household income (gdhi) - 1km
- 1km uk grid
Data
We use land cover as a response variable and other variables like elevation,
temperature, and others as predictors. Detail on each dataset can be found below.
All these datasets are found under the path data/raw.
Land cover data (cleaned)
This is the aggregated land cover data per 1km, but we expect to use data at higher resolution.
- Path:
land-cover/landcover_composite_map_integer_reclass.tif - Source: ceh
- Yer: 2017
- Coverage: UK
- Type: Raster
- Resolution: 25 m
UK Boundaries (cleaned)
- Path:
boundaries/Countries_December_2017_Full_Clipped_Boundaries_UK_WGS84.shp - Source: Office for National Statistics
- Year: 2017
- Type: Multipolygon
Elevation (cleaned)
- Path:
elevation/{eu_dem_v11_E30N30.TIF,eu_dem_v11_E30N40.TIF} - Source: Copernicus
- Year: 2016
- Coverage: European Union
- Type: Raster
- Resolution: 25 m
- Note: It is divided in several tiles, where UK belongs to tiles E30N30 (most of UK) and E30N40 (a small proportion UK’s north).
Near surface air temperature (cleaned)
- Path:
temperature/{chess_tas_201501.nc, ..., chess_tas_201512.nc} - Source: The Climate, Hydrology and Ecology research Support System (CHESS)
- Year: 2015
- Coverage: UK
- Type: Raster
- Resolution: 1 km (daily)
- Units: degrees K
Potential evapotranspiration over well-watered grass (cleaned)
- Path:
evapotranspiration/{chess_pet_wwg_201501.nc, ..., chess_pet_wwg_tas_201512.nc} - Source: The Climate, Hydrology and Ecology research Support System (CHESS)
- Year: 2015
- Coverage: UK
- Type: Raster
- Resolution: 1 km (daily)
- Units: mm/day
Precipitation (cleaned)
- Path:
precipitation/{chess_precip_201501.nc, ..., chess_precip_tas_201512.nc} - Source: The Climate, Hydrology and Ecology research Support System (CHESS)
- Year: 2015
- Coverage: UK
- Type: Raster
- Resolution: 1 km (daily)
- Units: mm/day
European soil data base
- Path:
- Source: European Soil Data Centre (ESDAC)
- Type: Polygon
Residential Population (cleaned)
- Path:
population/UK_residential_population_2011_1_km.tif - Source: CEH
- Year: 2011
- Coverage: UK
- Type: Raster
- Resolution: 1 km
- Note: Cells with no population are set as
NA, it needs cleaning.
Gross disposable household income per head (gdhi) (cleaned)
- Path:
gdhi/vcregionalgdhibylareordered.csv - Source: CEH
- Year: 1997-2016
- Coverage: UK
- Type: Polygon
- Resolution: Local authorities