Data was generated for three estuaries by automated classification of false-colour aerial imagery. The estuaries are the Western Scheldt, the Eastern Scheldt and the Ems-Dollard in the Netherlands. The vector data of land cover classes are for the intertidal zones of the three estuaries. The original aerial imagery is available from Rijkswaterstaat.
The automated method can be applied in other estuaries and tidal basins, such as the Wadden Sea, provided that high-quality areal imagery is available.
The data is provided in a geodatabase format, with two project files to consult the data, a toolbox and another geodatabase containing the appropriate settings to consult the data. More information about the data and its contents can be found in readme.txt.
