Sky View Factor of The Netherlands
An important variable to calculate local temperatures is the Sky View Factor (SVF) which is the fraction of sky visible from the ground. The SVF depends on the height of the obstacles in the surroundings of a given location. The goal is to capture small features like houses and trees throughout the Netherlands at a very high resolution. SVF is essential to describe the urban climatology at scales below 100m. This proxy for net radiation depends on the height of the obstacles in its surroundings. Since global radiation the major forcing of diurnal temperature range the SVF is often used in urban heat island studies. This dataset comprises the Sky View Factor of The Netherlands at 0.5 meter resolution raster based on Actual Height Model of the Netherlands (AHN2) elevation dataset.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2019-07-15
- Edition
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2
- Citation identifier
- urn:xkdc:ds:nl.knmi::SVF_NL/3/
- Status
- Completed
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Unknown
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DG Discovery Properties Vocabulary 1.0
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SVF
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Sky view factor
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- Keywords
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Open data
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Core dataset
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- Use limitation
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No use limitations
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- Classification
- Unclassified
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 0.5 meters
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Climatology, meteorology, atmosphere
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- Begin date
- 2007-01-01
- End date
- 2013-01-01
- Supplemental Information
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Sky view factor calculations and its application in urban heat island studies https://doi.org/10.1016/j.uclim.2019.100498
For a mapping of tile naming and geographical position please refer to https://www.arcgis.com/apps/Embed/index.html?appid=a0fac0a69f5343a3bbd15f5605dee4cc
- Reference system identifier
- http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/PROJ.4/0/+proj=sterea +lat_0=52.15616055555555 +lon_0=5.38763888888889 +k=0.9999079 +x_0=155000 +y_0=463000 +ellps=bessel +towgs84=565.4171,50.3319,465.5524,-0.398957388243134,0.343987817378283,-1.87740163998045,4.0725 +units=m +no_defs
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Name Version GeoTIFF
N/A
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name landingpage
https://dataplatform.knmi.nl/catalog/datasets/index.html?x-dataset=SVF_NL&x-dataset-version=3 KNMI Data Platform
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- Dataset
Quantitative result
- Value
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SVF of water bodies is not available
- Statement
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Processed dataset from original digital elevation data from PDOK data. The SVF was calculated from a rasterized point cloud height dataset (with 6-10 points per m2)*. At this scale small features like houses and trees throughout the Netherlands are captured. *Version 3 was based on the official PDOK 0.5m AHN2 raster
Metadata
- File identifier
- b9908c7a-a650-4e1c-ab10-48008a155a61 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-05-02T09:29:42.037Z
- Metadata standard name
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ISO 19115
- Metadata standard version
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ISO 19115:2003 NL Kernset 1.3 KNMI 1.1
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Koninklijk Nederlands Meteorologisch Instituut (KNMI)
Point of contact
- Other language
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Language Character encoding Dutch; Flemish English UTF8
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