NERC Data Catalogue Service
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
- 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
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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
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Controlled
- Use constraints
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- Other constraints
- 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.
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- 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
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- 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
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Spatialite (.sqlite)
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Spatialite (.sqlite)
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Supporting information
Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Other
- dataset
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 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
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Lancaster
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LA1 4AP
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UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
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