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Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB) v2

This dataset consists of the 1km raster, percentage target class version of the Land Cover Map 1990 (LCM1990) for Great Britain. The 1km percentage product provides the percentage cover for each of 21 land cover classes for 1km x 1km pixels. This product contains one band per target habitat class (producing a 21 band image). The 21 target classes are based on the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Broad Habitats, which encompass the entire range of UK habitats. This dataset is derived from the vector version of the Land Cover Map, which contains individual parcels of land cover and is the highest available spatial resolution. LCM1990 is a land cover map of the UK which was produced at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology by classifying satellite images (mainly from 1989 and 1990) into 21 Broad Habitat-based classes. It is the first in a series of land cover maps for the UK, which also includes maps for 2000, 2007, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. LCM1990 consists of a range of raster and vector products and users should familiarise themselves with the full range (see related records, the UKCEH web site and the LCM1990 Dataset documentation) to select the product most suited to their needs. 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/bb381b5b-d44e-4dbd-a9d1-efffd4c3e4a8

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Date (Publication)
2020-10-09
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/bb381b5b-d44e-4dbd-a9d1-efffd4c3e4a8
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/bb381b5b-d44e-4dbd-a9d1-efffd4c3e4a8
Other citation details
Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., Morton, R.D., O’Neil, A.W. (2020). Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB) v2. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/bb381b5b-d44e-4dbd-a9d1-efffd4c3e4a8
Author
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Rowland, C.S.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0459-506X
Author
  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 - O’Neil, A.W.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3591-1034
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Rowland, C.S.
Owner
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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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Land Cover Map licence
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., Morton, R.D., O’Neil, A.W. (2020). Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB) v2. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/bb381b5b-d44e-4dbd-a9d1-efffd4c3e4a8
Spatial representation type
grid Grid
Distance
1000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
1990-01-01
End date
1990-12-31
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Distribution format
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Distributor
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
The percentage target class is produced from the 25m raster (which is derived from the vector product) by: 1. Using gdal_calc to split the 21 target classes into 21 individual images for each class where the presence of the class in question is recorded as 100 and absence is assigned 0. 2. Gdal_warp is then applied to each of the 21 presence/absence images to resample to 1km, using the 'average' option under resample. This produces images of percentage cover for each class. 3. Gdal_merge is then used to create a single file with 21 bands, where each band provides the percentage cover for the class i.e. band 1 provides percentage cover for class 1 etc.
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bb381b5b-d44e-4dbd-a9d1-efffd4c3e4a8 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
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dataset Dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Date stamp
2024-02-27T16:13:47
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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