New Zealand land use map
Organisations can use the LUCAS New Zealand Land Use Map to monitor changes in their own land management practices.
Organisations can use the LUCAS New Zealand Land Use Map to monitor changes in their own land management practices.
The latest version of the LUCAS New Zealand Land Use Map (LUM) is available free for download (registration required) with Creative Commons licensing from the MfE Data Service. It is available in a variety of GIS file formats.
The LUM includes 12 land-use classes and four maps nominally dated at 1 January 1990, 1 January 2008, 31 December 2012 and 31 December 2016 (known as '1990', '2008', '2012' and ‘2016’).
Land-use maps are produced to keep track of land-use change, especially change in forests. It is strongly recommended that the following publication is referred to when assessing the appropriateness of the LUM for other purposes.
Enquiries about the LUM can be made to the Ministry for the Environment’s Carbon Sequestration team.