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Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB)

[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. The Land Cover Map of Great Britain 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB), is a raster digital dataset, providing a classification of land cover types into 25 classes, at a 1km resolution. The dataset consists of a set of 1km bands, each containing one of 25 target classes (or 'sub' classes). Each band of the dataset contains the percentage of the specified habitat class per 1km, derived from a higher resolution (25m) dataset. The map was produced using supervised maximum likelihood classifications of Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper satellite data. The 25 mapped classes include sea and inland waters, bare, suburban and urban areas, arable farmland, pastures and meadows, rough grass, grass heaths and moors, bracken, dwarf shrub heaths and moorland, scrub, deciduous and evergreen woodland, and upland and lowland bogs. It can potentially be used to plan, manage or monitor agriculture, ecology, conservation, forestry, environmental assessment, water supplies, urban spread, transport, telecommunications, recreation and mineral extraction. The map was produced in the early 1990s by a forerunner of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, at Monks Wood. Note: The bands in the dataset run from 1-26, not 0-25 as stated in the documentation. Hence '1' is unclassifed (not '0'), '2' is sea/estuary and so on. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c

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Date (Publication)
1993-01-01
Identifier
CEH:EIDC: / 1287411764047
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c
Other citation details
Fuller, R.M., Groom, G.B., Jones, A.R., Thomson, A.G. (1993). Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Morton, D.
Owner
  Natural Environment Research Council
Publisher
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
Author
  Institute of Terrestrial Ecology - Fuller, R.M.
Author
  Institute of Terrestrial Ecology - Groom, G.B.
Author
  Institute of Terrestrial Ecology - Jones, A.R.
Author
  Institute of Terrestrial Ecology - Thomson, A.G.
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Land Cover
Access constraints
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Other constraints
Superseded
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Fuller, R.M., Groom, G.B., Jones, A.R., Thomson, A.G. (1993). Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Distance
1000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
1990-01-01
End date
1990-12-31
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Unique resource identifier
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Distribution format
  • ESRI ASCII grid ()

  • ESRI .hdr RAW raster ()

  • TIFF ()

Distributor
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
OnLine resource
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
The Land Cover Map of Great Britain (LCMGB) was produced (at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) Monks Wood) using supervised maximum likelihood classifications of Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite data. See online supporting information for further details.
File identifier
0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
Hierarchy level
dataset Dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Date stamp
2025-03-21T13:23:29
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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