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Land Cover Map 2015 (vector, GB)

This dataset consists of the vector version of the Land Cover Map 2015 (LCM2015) for Great Britain. The vector data set is the core LCM data set from which the full range of other LCM2015 products is derived. It provides a number of attributes including land cover at the target class level (given as an integer value and also as text), the number of pixels within the polygon classified as each land cover type and a probability value provided by the classification algorithm (for full details see the LCM2015 Dataset Documentation). The 21 target classes are based on the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Broad Habitats, which encompass the entire range of UK habitats. LCM2015 is a land cover map of the UK which was produced at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology by classifying satellite images from 2014 and 2015 into 21 Broad Habitat-based classes. LCM2015 consists of a range of raster and vector products and users should familiarise themselves with the full range (see related records, the CEH web site and the LCM2015 Dataset documentation) to select the product most suited to their needs. LCM2015 was produced at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology by classifying satellite images from 2014 and 2015 into 21 Broad Habitat-based classes. It is one of a series of land cover maps, produced by UKCEH since 1990. They include versions in 1990, 2000, 2007, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/6c6c9203-7333-4d96-88ab-78925e7a4e73

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Date (Publication)
2017-04-12
Date (Creation)
2017-03-01
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/6c6c9203-7333-4d96-88ab-78925e7a4e73
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/6c6c9203-7333-4d96-88ab-78925e7a4e73
Other citation details
Rowland, C.S., Morton, R.D., Carrasco, L., McShane, G., O'Neil, A.W., Wood, C.M. (2017). Land Cover Map 2015 (vector, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/6c6c9203-7333-4d96-88ab-78925e7a4e73
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Rowland, C.
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Rowland, C.S.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0459-506X
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Morton, R.D.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3947-6463
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Carrasco, L.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4283-7725
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - McShane, G.
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7038-9881
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - O'Neil, A.W.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3591-1034
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Wood, C.M.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0394-2998
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Publisher
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
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 CEH Data Licensing team will contact you to negotiate a licence.
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Rowland, C.S., Morton, R.D., Carrasco, L., McShane, G., O'Neil, A.W., Wood, C.M. (2017). Land Cover Map 2015 (vector, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/6c6c9203-7333-4d96-88ab-78925e7a4e73
Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Distance
10  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
2014-01-01
End date
2015-12-01
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Distribution format
  • ESRI file geodatabase format ()

Distributor
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
For LCM2015, per-pixel classifications were conducted, using a random forest classification algorithm to classify the different land cover types. 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 classification product is the majority class per polygon i.e. the dominant class for each polygon. LCM2015 uses a spatial framework that is similar to the LCM2007 framework. For both LCM2007 and LCM2015 the framework is based on generalised OS MasterMap (R). The generalisation (or simplification) process was used to remove very small objects, which provided unnecessary detail. In LCM2007 larger polygons were split using image segmentation; however this was not done for LCM2015.
File identifier
6c6c9203-7333-4d96-88ab-78925e7a4e73 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
2025-06-06T07:32:26
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 , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Land Cover

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