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Land Cover Map 2021 (25m rasterised land parcels, GB)

This is a 25m pixel data set representing the land surface of Great Britain, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. It is a three-band raster in GeoTiff format, produced by rasterising three properties of the classified land parcels dataset. The first band gives the most likely land cover type; the second band gives the per-parcel probability of the land cover, the third band is a measure of parcel purity. The probability and purity bands (scaled 0 to 100) combine to give an indication of uncertainty. A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2021 products are available from the LCM2021 product documentation accompanying this dataset. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/a1f85307-cad7-4e32-a445-84410efdfa70

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Date (Publication)
2022-08-03
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a1f85307-cad7-4e32-a445-84410efdfa70
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/a1f85307-cad7-4e32-a445-84410efdfa70
Other citation details
Marston, C., Rowland, C.S., O'Neil, A.W., Morton, R.D. (2022). Land Cover Map 2021 (25m rasterised land parcels, GB). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/a1f85307-cad7-4e32-a445-84410efdfa70
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Marston, C.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-2187
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Marston, C.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-2187
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Rowland, C.S.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0459-506X
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - O'Neil, A.W.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3591-1034
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Morton, R.D.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3947-6463
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Publisher
  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: Marston, C., Rowland, C.S., O'Neil, A.W., Morton, R.D. (2022). Land Cover Map 2021 (25m rasterised land parcels, GB). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/a1f85307-cad7-4e32-a445-84410efdfa70
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grid Grid
Distance
25  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
2021-01-01
End date
2021-12-31
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Distribution format
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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. Training data were automatically selected from stable land covers over the interval of 2018 to 2020. 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 LCM2021 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 documentation accompanying this dataset. The 25 m rasterised land parcels product is created by pixelating the corresponding land parcel product.
File identifier
a1f85307-cad7-4e32-a445-84410efdfa70 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
2025-03-21T13:23:25
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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