Land Cover Map 2020 (land parcels, N. Ireland)

This is the land parcel (polygon) dataset for the UKCEH Land Cover Map of 2020 (LCM2020) representing Northern Ireland. It describes Northern Ireland's land cover in 2020 using UKCEH Land Cover Classes, which are based on UK Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. A range of land parcel attributes are provided. These include the dominant UKCEH Land Cover Class given as an integer value and a range of per-parcel pixel statistics to help assess classification confidence and accuracy; for a full explanation please refer to the dataset documentation accompanying this dataset. LCM2020 represents a suite of geospatial land cover datasets (raster and polygon) describing the UK land surface in 2020. These were produced at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology by classifying satellite images from 2020. These are one of a series of UKCEH land cover maps, which began with the 1990 Land Cover Map of Great Britain (now usually referred to as LCM1990) followed by UK-wide land cover maps in 2000, 2007, 2015 and annually since 2017. 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/10.5285/36343ace-d56a-43ea-9d48-2f434dafcb26

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: utf8

Dataset Reference Date (): 2022-07-12

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/36343ace-d56a-43ea-9d48-2f434dafcb26

Identifier: doi: / 10.5285/36343ace-d56a-43ea-9d48-2f434dafcb26

Other citation details: Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O’Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2022). Land Cover Map 2020 (land parcels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/36343ace-d56a-43ea-9d48-2f434dafcb26

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Dr. Dan Morton

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3947-6463

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Morton, R.D.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3947-6463

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Marston, C.G.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-2187

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - O’Neil, A.W.

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3591-1034

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Rowland, C.S.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0459-506X

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

Land Cover

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Other constraints: Bespoke licensing conditions apply to these data. If you choose to download the data, the UKCEH Data Licensing team will contact you to negotiate a licence.

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O’Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2022). Land Cover Map 2020 (land parcels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/36343ace-d56a-43ea-9d48-2f434dafcb26

Spatial representation type: vector

Distance: 10 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Topic category

Environment
Biota
Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date: 2020-01-01

End date: 2020-12-31

Code: Irish Grid

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: UKCEH’s automated land cover algorithms generated 10m classified pixels from Sentinel-2 satellite data. Training data were automatically selected from stable land covers over the interval of 2017 to 2019. A Random Forest classifier used these to classify four composite images representing per season median surface reflectance. 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 pixel classification into a land parcel spatial framework (the LCM2020 Classified Land Parcels product). The classified land parcels were compared to known land cover producing confusion matrix to determine overall and per class accuracy. Details are available from the product documentation. This product represents the LCM2020 Classified Land Parcel, Northern Ireland.

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File identifier: 36343ace-d56a-43ea-9d48-2f434dafcb26 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)

Resource type: dataset

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Metadata Date: 2024-04-18T15:06:57

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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