BGS Hosted Metadata
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].
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-07-21
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Christopher Marston
Point of contact UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Rowland, C.S. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Marston, C.G. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology O'Neil, A.W. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Land Cover
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Spatial representation type
- Text, table
- Language
- English
- Character set
- 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
- Distribution format
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Name Version Comma-separated values (CSV)
GeoPackage
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Other
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dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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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.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 0171ccb2-1c0c-404f-b782-e7204a86a92f XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-07-21T15:23:53
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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