Alistair G. Auffret, Adam Kimberley, Jan Plue, Helle Skånes, Simon Jakobsson, Emelie Waldén, Marika Wennbom, Heather Wood, James M. Bullock, Sara A. O. Cousins, Mira Gartz, Danny A. P. Hooftman, Louise Tränk
This dataset contains 7069 sheets of the Swedish Economic Map. These map sheets were published between 1930s and 1960s, with each sheet covering a 25 km2 area at a 1 m resolution. The sheets are classified into Arable land, Open land, Forest and Water. The map sheets are available as GeoTIFFS using the SWEREF99 projection.
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Alistair G. Auffret, Adam Kimberley, Jan Plue, Helle Skånes, Simon Jakobsson, Emelie Waldén, Marika Wennbom, Heather Wood, James M. Bullock, Sara A. O. Cousins, Mira Gartz, Danny A. P. Hooftman, Louise Tränk (2017) Data from: HistMapR: Rapid digitization of historical land-use maps in R. Stockholm University. Dataset Version 2. figshare. https://doi.org/10.17045/sthlmuni.4649854.v2
References
Auffret AG, Kimberley A, Plue J, Skånes H, Jakobsson S, Waldén E, Wennbom M, Wood H, Bullock JM, Cousins SAO, Gartz M, Hooftman DAP, Tränk L (2017) HistMapR: Rapid digitization of historical land-use maps in R, Methods in Ecology and Evolution 8: 1453-1457. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12788
Data description
The dataset includes map data and R scripts. For more information please consult the dataset's readme file at figshare and the accompanying article (Auffret et al. 2017).
Comments
The dataset is published at figshare and is available in two versions. Reference to version 2 is: Auffret, Alistair G; Kimberley, Adam; Plue, Jan; Skånes, Helle; Jakobsson, Simon; Waldén, Emelie; Wennbom, Marika; Wood, Heather; Bullock, James M; Cousins, Sara A O; Gartz, Mira; Hooftman, Danny A P; Tränk, Louise (2017): Data from: HistMapR: Rapid digitization of historical land-use maps in R. figshare. https://doi.org/10.17045/sthlmuni.4649854.v2