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Land Cover Map 2023 (1km summary rasters, GB and N. Ireland)

This 1 km summary pixel data set represents the land surface of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, classified using two classification schemas, target and aggregate classes. The target class schema comprise 21 UKCEH land cover classes based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. The aggregate class schema comprises 10 aggregate classes that are groupings of the 21 target classes. The aggregate classes group some of the more specialised target classes into more general classes. For example, the five coastal classes in the target class are grouped into a single aggregate class. The 1km percentage product provides the percentage cover for each of the 21 land cover classes for 1km x 1km pixels. This product contains one band per habitat class, producing 21 and 10 band images for the target and aggregate class products respectively. The 1km dominant coverage product is based on the 1km percentage product, and reports the land cover class with the highest percentage cover for each 1km pixel. A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2023 products are available from the LCM2023 product documentation accompanying this dataset. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b

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Date (Publication)
2024-05-20
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b
Other citation details
Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2024). Land Cover Map 2023 (1km summary rasters, GB and N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b
Point of contact
  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 - 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
Publisher
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Owner
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Land Cover
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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. (2024). Land Cover Map 2023 (1km summary rasters, GB and N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b
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grid Grid
Distance
1000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
2023-01-01
End date
2023-12-31
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Unique resource identifier
TM 75 / Irish Grid (EPSG: 29903)
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  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
UKCEH's automated land cover algorithms classify 10 m pixels across the whole of UK. 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 10 m pixel classification into a land parcel framework (the LCM2023 classified land parcels product). The classified land parcels were compared to known land cover producing a confusion matrix to determine overall and per class accuracy. Details are available from the product documentationaccompanying this dataset. The 1 km percentage and dominant products are created by calculating the percentage cover for each land cover classes for every 1km x 1km pixel, then reporting the dominant land cover class with the highest percentage cover for each 1km pixel.
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96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b 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
2025-03-21T10:44:24
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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