Land Use

For the implementation of the INSPIRE specifications for Land Use (Annex III) the CODIIGE Technical Working Group on Land Occupation has prepared a Guide for the transformation of spatial data sets of land use to comply with the INSPIRE directive adjusted to Spanish needs.

In the case of land use, the INSPIRE land use classification HILUCS (Hierarchical INSPIRE Land Use Classification System) is adopted as the common framework for all Spanish land use datasets, including SIOSE.

SIOSE data on land use according to INSPIRE

As in the case of land cover, this implementation involves classifying each SIOSE polygon according to its majority or most representative use and assigning a "HILUCS" classification value to the whole polygon.

The definition of the "HILUCS" classes is listed below:

Not all HILUCS classes have been considered in the SIOSE. Only those that correspond to the land use defined by the SIOSE appear in the legend.
Each HILUCS class has an associated colour forming the legend "HILUCS".

This "HILUCS" classification is listed in table TC_SIOSE_HILUCS of the SIOSE database.
This table is related to the SIOSE polygon table (T_POLYGONS) through the common field 'HILUCS':

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