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Land Cover Map 2019 (land parcels, GB)

This is the land parcels (polygon) dataset for the UKCEH Land Cover Map of 2019 (LCM2019) representing Great Britain. It describes Great Britain's land cover in 2019 using UKCEH Land Cover Classes, which are based on UK Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. This dataset was derived from the corresponding LCM2019 20m classified pixels dataset. All further LCM2019 datasets for Great Britain are derived from this land parcel product. 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 to assess classification confidence and accuracy; for a full explanation please refer to the dataset documentation. LCM2019 represents a suite of geospatial land cover datasets (raster and polygon) describing the UK land surface in 2019. These were produced at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology by classifying satellite images from 2019. LCM2019 was simultaneously released with LCM2017 and LCM2018. These are the latest in 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 LCM2000, LCM2007 and LCM2015. 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/10.5285/44c23778-4a73-4a8f-875f-89b23b91ecf8

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Date (Publication)
2020-06-22
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/44c23778-4a73-4a8f-875f-89b23b91ecf8
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/44c23778-4a73-4a8f-875f-89b23b91ecf8
Other citation details
Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2020). Land Cover Map 2019 (land parcels, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/44c23778-4a73-4a8f-875f-89b23b91ecf8
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Morton, R.D.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3947-6463
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Marston, C.G.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-2187
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - O'Neil, A.W.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3591-1034
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Rowland, C.S.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0459-506X
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Publisher
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Morton, D.
Owner
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Land Cover
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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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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2020). Land Cover Map 2019 (land parcels, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/44c23778-4a73-4a8f-875f-89b23b91ecf8
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Metadata language
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Topic category
  • Environment
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
2019-01-01
End date
2019-12-31
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
The Land Parcels datasets of the LCM2017, LCM2018 and LCM2019 product range were derived from the corresponding 20m Classified Pixels datasets. They give per-parcel land cover information in 21 classes based on UK Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. A UK spatial framework of land parcels (vector-polygons) representing real-world objects (for example: fields, lakes, urban areas and so forth) was intersected with the 20m Classified Pixels to generate per-parcel pixel statistics. These include a histogram recording pixel frequency per land cover class, the modal land cover class, the total number of pixels and three attribute indicators of classification confidence. Land parcel classification results were validated against independently collected ground observations. All calculations were performed within a PosGIS database. Results were extracted from PostGIS using the QGIS export facility to give the final product as a SpatiaLite vector geodatabse. SpatiaLite is an open standard file format for geospatial vector databases and SpatiLite files can be read by most GIS software.
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44c23778-4a73-4a8f-875f-89b23b91ecf8 XML
Metadata language
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Date stamp
2025-03-21T13:22:18
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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