NERC Data Catalogue Service
Land Cover Map 2020 (10m classified pixels, N. Ireland)
This is a 10m pixel data set representing the land surface, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. The pixel product is given as a two-band raster in geoTiff format. The first band gives the most likely land cover type; the second band gives the probability associated with this land cover. The probability layer is an indicator of uncertainty (rescaled 0 to 100). Low values correspond to low certainty (higher uncertainty). A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2020 products are available from the LCM2020 product documentation. Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/78d3824b-2612-4707-ae2e-26f82bdd5dad
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- Date (Publication)
- 2022-03-21
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/78d3824b-2612-4707-ae2e-26f82bdd5dad
- Other citation details
- Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2022). Land Cover Map 2020 (10m classified pixels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/78d3824b-2612-4707-ae2e-26f82bdd5dad
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Land Cover
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- Registration is required to access this data
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- Licence terms and conditions apply
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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. (2022). Land Cover Map 2020 (10m classified pixels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/78d3824b-2612-4707-ae2e-26f82bdd5dad
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Distance
- 10 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Begin date
- 2020-01-01
- End date
- 2020-12-31
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- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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- dataset Dataset
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- dataset
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- UKCEH's automated land cover classification algorithms generated the 10m classified pixels. 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 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 is the first 10m resolution land cover map produced by UKCEH. It succeeds 20m resolution classified pixel products from 2017, 2018 and 2019. Prior to 2017 classified pixels are not available as part of the UKCEH LCM product suite. The classified pixels represent the core dataset from which the remaining products in the LCM2020 suite are derived. These include LCM2020 classified land parcels and the LCM2020 25m rasterised land parcels product.
- File identifier
- 78d3824b-2612-4707-ae2e-26f82bdd5dad 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
- 2025-03-21T10:44:26
- 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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