A highly detailed land-use vector map for Madrid region based on photo-interpretation

Figures & data

Table 1. Evolution of the population and urban land in Madrid Region (2000-2006-2009).

				Increment	%	Increment	%	Increment	%
	2000	2006	2009	2000–2006	Annual	2006–2009	Annual	2000–2009	Annual
Population	5,207,408	6,010,189	6,388,941	802,781	2.6	378,752	2.1	1,181,533	2.5
Urban Land (ha)	89,165	102,053	106,436	12,887	2.4	4,384	1.4	17,271	2.2

Source: Municipal census data and MLU.

Table 2. LULC categories of Madrid land use.

Level 1	Level 2	Level 3
Urban land	Industrial	Industrial
	Office and Retail	Tertiary
	Residential Multi-household	Residential Multi-household
	Residential Single-household	Residential Single-household
	Urban Green	Urban green
	Infrastructure	Infrastructure (transport)
		Infrastructure (energy)
		Restricted area
	Facilities	Sport
		Facilities (general)
		Facilities (educative)
		Facilities (social)
		Services
Non-Urban Land	Crops	Fruit trees
		Greenhouse and artificial crops
		Olive trees
		Other crops
		Irrigated crops
		Non-irrigated crops
		Vineyards
	Degraded Areas	Dumps and landfills sites
		Empty urban parcels
		Miner extraction areas
		Construction areas
		Non-vegetated areas
		Green areas non-urban
	Grassland	Pastures and grassland
	Water	Artificial Channels
		Water reservoir
		Wetlands
		River and natural water
	Wood and Scrub	Sand lands
		Ilex communities
		Junipers communities
		Rockrose communities
		Mountain bushes
		Gipsyphilous bushes
		Other trees
		Other bushes
		Pine communities
		Oak communities
		Brooms
		Rocks
		Riparian vegetation

Figure 1. Location of Madrid region.

Figure 2. Characteristics of the MLU maps (level 2).

Figure 3. Procedure for land use data capture from orthophotos.

Figure 4. Support to urban land use classification.

Sources: Madrid Government, Spanish Cadastre, Bing maps, Google maps.

Figure 5. Land use units overlapping census tract units.

Source: MLU, Institute of Statistics of Madrid A.C.

Figure 6. Sample of final composition and details at 1:50.000 of MLU (2009).

Source: MLU.