Historic grasslands along watercourses in Flanders
Description
The GIS layer ‘Historical grasslands along Watercourses in Flanders’ is a digital anchoring of a mapping of grassland vegetation carried out in the years 1957 to 1960, along a number of important watercourses in Flanders. In total, more than 35 000 ha were carved. The mapping is described in detail in Andries & Van Slycken (1962). The aim of the study was to map the agricultural value of the grasslands The data would allow for targeted measures to improve their agricultural value. The historical mapping gives a picture of the situation in valley areas prior to the important water management interventions in valley areas in the 50s and 60s of the last century. It is therefore particularly valuable and the maps form a unique historical document because information was collected in a uniform way over large areas, almost flat-covering. The mapping was carried out by the National Centre for Grassland and Green Feed Research, a predecessor of the ILVO and funded by the IWT. Digitisation was carried out by INBO.
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https://metadata.vlaanderen.be/srv/dut/catalog.search#/metadata/439D6371-4383-4CBE-AD1E-37A2F6CAD016 |
Tags
- grasland
- landbouw
- graslandkartering
- waterlopen