Land Use Pattern

This ontology specifies the city-level concepts for the land use pattern of the city data model. The Land Use Pattern captures concepts related to land use and cover over time. Land Use Classifications provide a means of describing the land cover/use in a standard way. Various classification systems are used to identify types of land use. Currently, we include LBCS, CLUMP, and AAFC. The ontology reuses and extends the Land Based Classification Standards (LBCS) Ontology presented by (Montenegro, Gomes, Urbano, and Duarte, 2011) for this purpose.

This pattern imports the following patterns:

• Code Pattern

This pattern consists of the following classes:

• Land Area
• Land Use Classification
• Land Use Thing

The formal definition of this pattern is available in OWL Syntax.