Habitat classification data from Lumbierres et al. 2021

This repository contains code to generate global habitat classification data (based on Lumbierres et al. 2021). Specifically, source data are downloaded and then projected to the World Behrmann coordinate reference system using (100 m resolution; ESRI:4326 coordinate reference system). A processed version of the data can be downloaded from the Zenodo Digital Repository. All credit should go to Lumbierres et al. (2021), please cite their work if you use this dataset.

Metadata

The habitat classification data are stored in a raster (GeoTIFF) file. The file name contains the version number of the original datasets (i.e., per the digital object identifier). The latest version of the file is lumbierres-10-5281_zenodo-5146073-v2.tif.

The metadata for the lumbierres-10-5281_zenodo-5146073-v2.tif raster file is shown below.

Driver: GTiff/GeoTIFF
Files: lumbierres-10-5281_zenodo-5146073-v2.tif
Size is 347351, 132926
Coordinate System is:
PROJCRS["World_Behrmann",
    BASEGEOGCRS["WGS 84",
        DATUM["World Geodetic System 1984",
            ELLIPSOID["WGS 84",6378137,298.257223563,
                LENGTHUNIT["metre",1]]],
        PRIMEM["Greenwich",0,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433]],
        ID["EPSG",4326]],
    CONVERSION["Lambert Cylindrical Equal Area",
        METHOD["Lambert Cylindrical Equal Area",
            ID["EPSG",9835]],
        PARAMETER["Latitude of 1st standard parallel",30,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8823]],
        PARAMETER["Longitude of natural origin",0,
            ANGLEUNIT["degree",0.0174532925199433],
            ID["EPSG",8802]],
        PARAMETER["False easting",0,
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
            ID["EPSG",8806]],
        PARAMETER["False northing",0,
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1],
            ID["EPSG",8807]]],
    CS[Cartesian,2],
        AXIS["easting",east,
            ORDER[1],
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1,
                ID["EPSG",9001]]],
        AXIS["northing",north,
            ORDER[2],
            LENGTHUNIT["metre",1,
                ID["EPSG",9001]]]]
Data axis to CRS axis mapping: 1,2
Origin = (-17367531.000000000000000,7287077.000000000000000)
Pixel Size = (100.000000000000000,-100.000000000000000)
Metadata:
  AREA_OR_POINT=Area
Image Structure Metadata:
  COMPRESSION=DEFLATE
  INTERLEAVE=BAND
Corner Coordinates:
Upper Left  (-17367531.000, 7287077.000) (179d59'59.98"E, 83d 0'14.04"N)
Lower Left  (-17367531.000,-6005523.000) (179d59'59.98"E, 55d 0' 0.03"S)
Upper Right (17367569.000, 7287077.000) (179d59'58.56"W, 83d 0'14.04"N)
Lower Right (17367569.000,-6005523.000) (179d59'58.56"W, 55d 0' 0.03"S)
Center      (      19.000,  640777.000) (  0d 0' 0.71"E,  5d 1'44.75"N)
Band 1 Block=256x256 Type=Byte, ColorInterp=Gray
  Description = habitat_CGLS
  NoData Value=0

Usage

You can run the code to produce the dataset using the system command make clean all. After processing has successfully completed, the code will produce two raster (GeoTIFF) files in the results directory.

Software requirements

Operating system

• Ubuntu (21.10) (300 Gb disk space available)

Software

• GNU make (version 4.1)
• GDAL (version 3.2.2)
• R (version 4.1.1)

System packages

• gdal-bin
• libudunits2-dev
• libgdal-dev
• libgeos-dev
• libproj-dev
• libxml2-dev
• libssl-dev

Citation

This dataset was derived from Lumbierres et al. (2021). If you use this dataset, you should cite their work - they deserve all the credit!

Lumbierres M, Dahal PR, Di Marco M, Butchart SHM, Donald PF, and Rondinini C (2021) Translating habitat class to land cover to map area of habitat of terrestrial vertebrates. Conservation Biology, In press, DOI:10.1111/cobi.13851. Available at https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.13851.