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Land Cover Map 1990 (25m raster, GB) v2

This dataset consists of the 25m raster version of the Land Cover Map 1990 (LCM1990) for Great Britain. The 25m raster product consists of three bands: Band 1 - raster representation of the majority (dominant) class per polygon for 21 target classes; Band 2 - mean per polygon probability as reported by the Random Forest classifier (see supporting information); Band 3 - percentage of the polygon covered by the majority class. The 21 target classes are based on the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Broad Habitats, which encompass the entire range of UK habitats. This dataset is derived from the vector version of the Land Cover Map, which contains individual parcels of land cover and is the highest available spatial resolution. The 25m raster is the most detailed of the LCM1990 raster products both thematically and spatially, and it is used to derive the 1km products. LCM1990 is a land cover map of the UK which was produced at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology by classifying satellite images (mainly from 1989 and 1990) into 21 Broad Habitat-based classes. It is the first in a series of land cover maps for the UK, which also includes maps for 2000, 2007, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. LCM1990 consists of a range of raster and vector products and users should familiarise themselves with the full range (see related records, the UKCEH web site and the LCM1990 Dataset documentation) to select the product most suited to their needs. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/1be1912a-916e-42c0-98cc-16460fac00e8

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Date (Publication)
2020-06-17
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/1be1912a-916e-42c0-98cc-16460fac00e8
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/1be1912a-916e-42c0-98cc-16460fac00e8
Other citation details
Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., Morton, R.D., O'Neil, A.W. (2020). Land Cover Map 1990 (25m raster, GB) v2. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/1be1912a-916e-42c0-98cc-16460fac00e8
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Rowland, C.S.
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Rowland, C.S.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0459-506X
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Marston, C.G.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-2187
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Morton, R.D.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3947-6463
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - O'Neil, A.W.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3591-1034
Owner
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Publisher
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Land Cover
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., Morton, R.D., O'Neil, A.W. (2020). Land Cover Map 1990 (25m raster, GB) v2. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/1be1912a-916e-42c0-98cc-16460fac00e8
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Distance
25  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
1988-01-01
End date
1990-12-31
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
The 25m raster product is the most detailed of the LCM1990 raster products, both thematically and spatially, and it is derived from the LCM1990 vector product. For LCM1990, per-pixel classifications were conducted, using a random forest classification algorithm. The resultant classifications were then mosaicked together, with the best classifications taking priority. This produced a per-pixel classification of the UK, which was then 'imported' into the spatial framework, recording a number of attributes, including the majority class per polygon which is the Land Cover class for each polygon. The 25m raster product consists of three bands: Band 1 - raster representation of the majority (dominant) class per-polygon for the 21 target classes; Band2 - mean per polygon probability as reported by the Random Forest classifier; Band 3 -percentage of polygon covered by the majority class.
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1be1912a-916e-42c0-98cc-16460fac00e8 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
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dataset Dataset
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Date stamp
2025-03-21T10:44:35
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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