NERC Data Catalogue Service
Land Cover Map 2024 (UK land cover statistics)
The Land Cover Map 2024 (UK Land Cover Statistics) dataset summarises the coverage of different land cover types across Great Britain and Northern Ireland, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. This data is provided in both .csv and geopackage (vector) formats. Statistics are calculated at country, county, and regional (England only) levels from the Land Cover Map 2024 (10 m classified pixels) datasets for Great Britain and Northern Ireland. A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2024 products are available from the LCM2024 product documentation. In addition to UKCEH as copyright holders, the Land Cover Map 2024 (UK Land Cover Statistics) products use digital boundary products and reference maps. The source of the data is the Office for National Statistics and they are licensed under the Open Government Licence v.3.0. They contain OS data © Crown copyright and database right [2024]. Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-07-21
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f
- Other citation details
- Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W. (2025). Land Cover Map 2024 (UK land cover statistics). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f
Point of contact
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Marston, C.G.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-2187
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Land Cover
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- no limitations
- Use constraints
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- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- © UKCEH
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W. (2025). Land Cover Map 2024 (UK land cover statistics). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f
- Spatial representation type
- vector Vector
- Spatial representation type
- textTable Text, table
- Distance
- 10 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Begin date
- 2024-01-01
- End date
- 2024-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Supporting information
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- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Other
- dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- The Land Cover Map 2024 (UK land cover statistics) is a data set that summarises the land cover extent, as given by LCM2024, for a range of geographical units. The land cover statistics are provided as tabular data in comma separated value (.csv) files, and as spatial data in Geopackage files (.gpkg files) for use in geospatial software. The Land Cover Map 2024 (UK land cover statistics) data set is derived from the Land Cover Map 2024 (10 m classified pixels) data sets for Great Britain and Northern Ireland, as they provide the highest level of spatial data of the Land Cover Map data products. Summary statistics are calculated at country, county, and regional (England only) levels using the Office for National Statistics boundaries areas to allow comparison with other data sources (further details are available from the product documentation). All regions include land cover extents in m2 and percentage areas. The county and Unified Authority areas include area in hectares, whilst the larger geographies, regions and countries, give values in km2.
- File identifier
- 0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f 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
- 2025-08-04T14:48:30
- 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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