Land-use and land-cover here (LULC) themes are important for many domains, especially when they process environmental and socio-economic phenomena.The evolution of a land-use database called Open Land Use (OLU) started in 2013 and was continued by adapting many user requirements.The goal of this study was to design a new version of the OLU database that would better fit the gathered user requirements collected by projects using LULC data.
A formal definition of the developed data model through Unified Modeling Language (UML) class diagrams, a feature catalogue based on ISO 19110 and SQL scripts for setting up the OLU database, are the key achievements of the presented paper.The presented research provides a multi-scale open here database of LULC information supporting the DestinE initiative to develop a very-high-precision digital model of the earth.The novel spatio-temporal thematic approach also lies in modular views of the OLU database.