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This report describes the development of the land use database for the reference year 2016 for Flanders. It is the result of a progressive development and is based on the combination of the best available spatial information in Flanders (GIS layers and other (spatial) databases). In other words, no targeted terrain work was carried out in the context of the compilation of this land use database.
The land use database, situation 2016 is an ...

In 2013, the Flemish Environmental Planning Bureau of the Department of Environment and the Flemish Environment Agency commissioned the creation of a new, more detailed 3D geological and a new 3D hydrogeological model. Both models had to be able to be translated into each other as much as possible. For the creation of both new models, existing data and, if available, interpretations of this data were used, including mainly drill descriptions, ...

Environmental quality is the appreciation that people in a specific area attach to the space at a certain time. Environmental quality is formed by a combination of each of the three following building blocks 'utility value, experiential value and future value'. The spatial impact of these values gives an area a certain environmental quality.
These values are culturally and personally related, with views of what is of high quality changing ...