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Land Cover Map 2024 (land parcels, N. Ireland)

This is a vector data set representing the land surface of Northern Ireland, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. This vector Land Parcel dataset is the result of intersecting the 10m raster classified pixel dataset with the UKCEH Land Parcel Spatial Framework to generate summary land parcel attributes for each land cover parcel. A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2024 products are available from the LCM2024 product documentation. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/99ecdc84-5313-48c2-9fad-6a5e8ad3953e

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Date (Publication)
2025-07-18
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/99ecdc84-5313-48c2-9fad-6a5e8ad3953e
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/99ecdc84-5313-48c2-9fad-6a5e8ad3953e
Other citation details
Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W. (2025). Land Cover Map 2024 (land parcels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/99ecdc84-5313-48c2-9fad-6a5e8ad3953e
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Marston, C.G.
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 - 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
Owner
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Publisher
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Land Cover
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Bespoke licensing conditions apply to these data. If you choose to download the data, the UKCEH Data Licensing team will contact you to negotiate a licence.
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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 (land parcels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/99ecdc84-5313-48c2-9fad-6a5e8ad3953e
Spatial representation type
vector Vector
Distance
10  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
2024-01-01
End date
2024-12-31
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Unique resource identifier
EPSG:29903 - TM75 / Irish Grid
Distribution format
  • Spatialite (.sqlite) ()

Distributor
  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 is used to classify four composite satellite images representing per season median surface reflectance, based on training data comprising locations of known land cover for 21 land cover classes. 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 LCM2024 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 25 m rasterised land parcels product is created by rasterising the corresponding land parcel product.
File identifier
99ecdc84-5313-48c2-9fad-6a5e8ad3953e 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
2025-07-31T09:55:50
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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