Data4Land v1.1.1, stable Notebook mode
Pre-release
Overview
This release marks the Notebook version of the Data4Land tool, which provides main functionalities to enrich land-use/land-cover (LULC) datasets with other vector data, for example, OpenStreetMap database and World Database on Protected Areas.
Functionality
This tool includes four Jupyter Notebooks, which can be optional depending on purposes. These Notebooks are mainly developed to apply to the AD4GD project (biodiversity pilot) to enhance the calculation process of habitat connectivity. Interactive execution of these Jupyter Notebooks can be done fon user machines with stable network connection as its uses REST APIs to fetch new datasets.
The key changes compared to the v1.0.0 are:
- documentation supplied with the user guide and requirements for running each Notebook in the README file
- fixed bug with skipped requests to OpenStreetMap database in the 2nd Notebook
- added filters on bridges and tunnels to query OpenStreetMap features (roads, railways, waterways) as they do not act as ecological barriers for habitat connectivity (2nd Notebook)
- fixed bug with ignored manual edits of the configuration impedance file, which were not updated in the 4th Notebook
- added an example of configured parameters of decay and lambda/k-value for the case study of Northern England here
- supplied with output data which are produced by Data4Land with the sample input data - see Zenodo
Documentation
README file includes brief descriptions of each Jupyter Notebook, tool's diagram and installation instructions. A user guide has been added to the documentation, but all explicit descriptions of input/output data and its requirements are also given in the corresponding Notebooks:
- Access to historical data from the World Database on Protected Areas (WDPA) and harmonization
- Access and harmonisation of historical vector data on land-use/land-cover (LULC) - Open Street Map (OSM) data
- Enrichment of land-use/land-cover (LULC) data
- Impedance calculation ('edge effect' of biodiversity stressors)
Known Issues
All issues are currently being gathered from separate blocks of this tool, but the most notorious are listed in the [Issues section] of the parent repo within the AD4GD project (https://github.com/AD4GD/pilot-2/issues).
Installation
There is no specific installation required, but user is expected to run Jupyter Notebooks through a Docker image (see instructions in README). This prevents potential issues with applying some of the libraries used by this tool, especially GDAL.
License
See the detailed description here.
Contributors
Thanks everyone who contributed to this release:
Full Changelog available here: v1.0.0...v1.1.1
