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Land Cover Map 2020 (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 products describe percentage cover for each of the 21 land cover classes for 1km x 1km pixels. These contain one band per habitat class, producing 21 images for the target class product and 10 images for the aggregate class product. The 1km dominant coverage products are based on the 1km percentage products, and describe the land cover class with the highest percentage cover for each 1km pixel. A full description of these and all UKCEH LCM2020 products are available from the LCM2020 product documentation which accompanies the data. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/d6f8c045-521b-476e-b0d6-b3b97715c138

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Date (Publication)
2022-10-28
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/d6f8c045-521b-476e-b0d6-b3b97715c138
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/d6f8c045-521b-476e-b0d6-b3b97715c138
Other citation details
Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2022). Land Cover Map 2020 (1km summary rasters, GB and N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/d6f8c045-521b-476e-b0d6-b3b97715c138
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
Owner
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Marston, C.G.
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Publisher
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Land Cover
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
  • habitat
  • land
  • mapping
Keywords
  • Land cover
  • Mapping
  • Great Britain
  • Biodiversity Action Plan
  • UK-SCAPE
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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 (1km summary rasters, GB and N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/d6f8c045-521b-476e-b0d6-b3b97715c138
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
Begin date
2020-01-01
End date
2020-12-31
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Unique resource identifier
Irish Grid
Distribution format
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Distributor
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Conformance result

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 LCM2020 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. 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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d6f8c045-521b-476e-b0d6-b3b97715c138 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
2026-01-09T10:18:14
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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