BGS Hosted Metadata
Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB)
[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. The Land Cover Map of Great Britain 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB), is a raster digital dataset, providing a classification of land cover types into 25 classes, at a 1km resolution. The dataset consists of a set of 1km bands, each containing one of 25 target classes (or 'sub' classes). Each band of the dataset contains the percentage of the specified habitat class per 1km, derived from a higher resolution (25m) dataset. The map was produced using supervised maximum likelihood classifications of Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper satellite data. The 25 mapped classes include sea and inland waters, bare, suburban and urban areas, arable farmland, pastures and meadows, rough grass, grass heaths and moors, bracken, dwarf shrub heaths and moorland, scrub, deciduous and evergreen woodland, and upland and lowland bogs. It can potentially be used to plan, manage or monitor agriculture, ecology, conservation, forestry, environmental assessment, water supplies, urban spread, transport, telecommunications, recreation and mineral extraction. The map was produced in the early 1990s by a forerunner of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, at Monks Wood. Note: The bands in the dataset run from 1-26, not 0-25 as stated in the documentation. Hence '1' is unclassifed (not '0'), '2' is sea/estuary and so on. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c
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- Date (Publication)
- 1993-01-01
- Citation identifier
- CEH:EIDC: / 1287411764047
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c
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Fuller, R.M., Groom, G.B., Jones, A.R., Thomson, A.G. (1993). Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Morton, D.
Point of contact Natural Environment Research Council Owner NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Fuller, R.M.
Author Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Groom, G.B.
Author Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Jones, A.R.
Author Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Thomson, A.G.
Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Land Cover
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Fuller, R.M., Groom, G.B., Jones, A.R., Thomson, A.G. (1993). Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Begin date
- 1990-01-01
- End date
- 1990-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI ASCII grid
ESRI .hdr RAW raster
TIFF
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c.zip Supporting information
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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 of Great Britain (LCMGB) was produced (at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) Monks Wood) using supervised maximum likelihood classifications of Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite data. See online supporting information for further details.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T13:23:29
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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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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