International, relevant to the Netherlands

ESA WorldCover

A map of the whole earth in eleven land cover classes (forest, cropland, built-up, water …), based on Sentinel-1 and -2. Two editions, no new ones planned.

Earth observation Housing and landOpenMap layerDownloadWorld · 10 metres

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What can you do with it?1 ideas

Getting started

How much of your municipality is built-up?

Count pixels per class within the municipal boundary.

Interesting combinations

geometrie

Green per neighbourhood

Clip the raster per neighbourhood and compute the share of trees and grass.

Combine with District and neighbourhood map

Similar sources

BB
Bestand Bodemgebruik (CBS) not in the index yet
Official Dutch land use, more precise but updated less often.

Questions this source helps answer

What does my area look like from space?3 sources

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