Date (Creation)

2022-09-07

Date (Revision)

2023-03-03

Citation identifier

BE.IWEPS.215700.0 / 1ea04751-e8c3-11ec-9036-186571a04de2

Status

Completed

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Walloon Institute for Evaluation, Foresight and Statistics		info@iweps.be	Custodian

Maintenance and update frequency

Annually

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Land use

Belgian Federal Thesaurus

• Population statistics

INSPIRE feature concept dictionary

• Statistical Distribution

GEMET - Concept themes, version 4.01

• land planning
• land occupation
• artificial land

Spatial scope

• Regional

Keywords

• Interreg

• TransStat

• Cross-border

• Land Use

• Artificialization

• Region

• Province

• District

• Municipality

Use constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files

•The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use.

•Commercial use of the data under any form is strictly forbidden

•Custodian’s name must be mentioned each time the data are being used publically.

Access constraints

Other restrictions

Other constraints

No limitations on public access

Use limitation

•The custodian of the resource holds the rights of property (including the rights of intellectual property) to the geographic files

•The custodian grants the user the right to use the data for his internal use.

•Commercial use of the data under any form is strictly forbidden

•Custodian’s name must be mentioned each time the data are being used publically.

Spatial representation type

Text, table

Language

Français

Character set

8859 Part 15

Topic category

• Society

Description

Wallonia

Distribution format

Name	Version
CSV

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://walstat.iweps.be/fichiers/metadonnees/meta-215700.pdf
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://bestanden.west-vlaanderen.be/dataenanalyse/TransStat/Landgebruik_Occupation_du_sol.pdf
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link	https://bestanden.west-vlaanderen.be/dataenanalyse/TransStat/Grondgebied_Territoire.pdf

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download	https://stratus.iweps.be/index.php/s/MqpR5NXqwc2QwNk

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Statement

The land use and land cover data used by IWEPS for Wallonia are taken from the Belgian Cadastre (SPF Finance). A cadastral parcel includes the buildings, annexes, outbuildings, accesses and gardens that are contiguous to it, provided that the whole forms an indivisible whole and is assigned to the same use (SPF Finance, 2014). For each cadastral parcel, the surface area and the cadastral nature are available. The latter corresponds to the main use of the parcel at the time of its last cadastral registration (e.g. house, farm, business, etc.).

In 2008, a land use nomenclature was developed on the basis of a joint reflection by the standing conference on territorial development, the SPW Environment and the IWEPS. The cadastral natures were grouped into 16 land use categories. These 16 categories can be grouped together to distinguish between artificial and non-artificial land. This grouping of parcels is based on the work of the European CORINE Land Cover (CLC) project in order to facilitate comparisons with other European regions. The land registry data are not exhaustive. In 2021, 5.2% of Wallonia's territory is not registered and/or of unknown nature. The unregistered areas are part of the public space (roads, squares, railways, rivers and canals, etc.). These areas of unknown nature are not homogeneously distributed over the Walloon territory. The proportion of unknown areas varies from 2% (larger or rural municipalities) to over 20% (Liège and Visé). The Sambre-et-Meuse region accounts for a large proportion of this area.

Metadata

File identifier

1e7084c0-e8c3-11ec-a3e2-186571a04de2 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

UTF8

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Date stamp

2023-03-14T15:11:33

Metadata standard name

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Metadata standard version

1.0

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Walloon Institute for Evaluation, Foresight and Statistics		info@iweps.be	Point of contact

Other language

Language	Character encoding
French
Dutch; Flemish
German
English	UTF8