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.
Highlights
Urban sprawl is a serious problem in many European cities
The implementation and testing of the baseline services in the three pilot studies showed that crucial factors for their applicability are the availability, spatial resolution and completeness of the underlying data
The Urban Atlas as the central data source fulfils the requirements for a European-wide applicable information system as it is available for many urban areas across Europe
Summary
The overall concept of the URBIS services is outlined and the current status of the implementation of the web-based services is presented. The first prototype of the baseline services has been implemented, whereas the implementation of the update and thematic services is currently in progress
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