Land Cover Map 2024 (25m rasterised land parcels, GB)
This is a 25m pixel data set representing the land surface of Great Britain, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. It is a three-band raster in GeoTiff format, produced by rasterising three properties of the classified land parcels dataset. The first band gives the most likely land cover type; the second band gives the per-parcel probability of the land cover, the third band is a measure of parcel purity. The probability and purity bands (scaled 0 to 100) combine to give an indication of uncertainty. A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2024 products are available from the LCM2024 product documentation. Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/0e3ab6f8-4a20-4a60-a804-e144fb0bde39
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-07-17
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/0e3ab6f8-4a20-4a60-a804-e144fb0bde39
- Other citation details
- Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W. (2025). Land Cover Map 2024 (25m rasterised land parcels, GB). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0e3ab6f8-4a20-4a60-a804-e144fb0bde39
Point of contact
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Marston, C.G.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-2187
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Land Cover
- GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
- Keywords
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- Land cover
- Mapping
- Great Britain
- Biodiversity Action Plan
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- Registration is required to access this data
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- Licence terms and conditions apply
- Use constraints
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W. (2025). Land Cover Map 2024 (25m rasterised land parcels, GB). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0e3ab6f8-4a20-4a60-a804-e144fb0bde39
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Distance
- 25 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Begin date
- 2024-01-01
- End date
- 2024-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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- dataset Dataset
- Other
- dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- UKCEH’s automated land cover algorithms classify 10 m pixels across the whole of UK. A Random Forest classifier is used to classify four composite satellite images representing per season median surface reflectance, based on training data comprising locations of known land cover for 21 land cover classes. Seasonal images were integrated with context layers (e.g., height, aspect, slope, coastal proximity, urban proximity and so forth) to reduce confusion among classes with similar spectra. Land cover was validated by organising the 10 m pixel classification into a land parcel framework (the LCM2024 classified land parcels product). The classified land parcels were compared to known land cover producing a confusion matrix to determine overall and per class accuracy. Details are available from the product documentation. The 25 m rasterised land parcels product is created by rasterising the corresponding land parcel product.
- File identifier
- 0e3ab6f8-4a20-4a60-a804-e144fb0bde39 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
- 2026-01-09T10:18:26
- 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
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Lancaster
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LA1 4AP
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UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
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