Kaelin, A.; Miller, J.; Rehan, B.; Sayers, P.; Stewart, E.; Houghton-Carr, H.; Hasan-Basri, B.

A land use map of Peninsular Malaysia for the year 2018 (25m grid)

https://doi.org/10.5285/36df244e-11c8-44bc-aa9b-79427123c42c Cite this dataset
Gridded land use map of Peninsular Malaysia with a resolution of approximate 25 meters for the year 2018. The map includes nine different classes: 1) non-paddy agriculture, 2) paddy fields, 3) rural residential, 4) urban residential, 5) commercial/institutional, 6) industrial/infrastructure, 7) roads, 8) urban and 9) others.

The land use map was created as part of the project “Malaysia - Flood Impact Across Scales”. The project is funded under the Newton-Ungku Omar Fund ‘Understanding of the Impacts of Hydrometeorological Hazards in South East Asia’ call. The grant was jointly awarded by the Natural Environment Research Council and the MYPAIR Scheme under the Ministry of Higher Education of Malaysia.
Publication date: 2021-04-15

Format

GeoTIFF

Where/When

Study area
Temporal extent
2018-01-01    to    2018-12-31

Provenance & quality

The land use is based on detailed polygon land use data by state, obtained from PLANMalaysia (Department of Town and Country Planning, Malaysia). This polygon data was reclassified and rasterized. Gaps were infilled using the global CCI Land Cover map from the European Space Agency. Residential areas were split into rural and urban, as identified by the Global Human Settlement Urban Centre Database. Paddy fields were either derived from the detailed polygon land use data (where available) or located and vectorized by consulting rice cultivation maps. All analyses were completed in QGIS.

Correspondence/contact details

Kaelin, A.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Maclean Building, Benson Lane, Crowmarsh Gifford
Wallingford
Oxfordshire
OX10 8BB
UNITED KINGDOM
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Authors

Kaelin, A.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Miller, J.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7705-8898
Rehan, B.
University Putra Malaysia, Civil engineering Department
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9404-0809
Sayers, P.
Sayers and Partners
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2160-1959
Stewart, E.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4246-6645
Houghton-Carr, H.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4465-2169
Hasan-Basri, B.
Universiti Utara Malaysia, Department of Economics and Agribuisness
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8566-8768

Other contacts

Rights holder
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Other keywords
Malaysia , land use , agriculture , paddy , urban , flood risk
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/S003177/1
Spatial representation type
Raster
Spatial reference system
WGS 84
Last updated
18 May 2022 12:28

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CITE AS: Kaelin, A.; Miller, J.; Rehan, B.; Sayers, P.; Stewart, E.; Houghton-Carr, H.; Hasan-Basri, B. (2021). A land use map of Peninsular Malaysia for the year 2018 (25m grid). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/36df244e-11c8-44bc-aa9b-79427123c42c