36343ace-d56a-43ea-9d48-2f434dafcb26 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-21T09:45:39 UK GEMINI 2.3 Irish Grid Land Cover Map 2020 (land parcels, N. Ireland) 2022-07-12 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/36343ace-d56a-43ea-9d48-2f434dafcb26 10.5285/36343ace-d56a-43ea-9d48-2f434dafcb26 doi: Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2022). Land Cover Map 2020 (land parcels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/36343ace-d56a-43ea-9d48-2f434dafcb26 This is the land parcel (polygon) dataset for the UKCEH Land Cover Map of 2020 (LCM2020) representing Northern Ireland. It describes Northern Ireland's land cover in 2020 using UKCEH Land Cover Classes, which are based on UK Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. A range of land parcel attributes are provided. These include the dominant UKCEH Land Cover Class given as an integer value and a range of per-parcel pixel statistics to help assess classification confidence and accuracy; for a full explanation please refer to the dataset documentation accompanying this dataset. LCM2020 represents a suite of geospatial land cover datasets (raster and polygon) describing the UK land surface in 2020. These were produced at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology by classifying satellite images from 2020. These are one of a series of UKCEH land cover maps, which began with the 1990 Land Cover Map of Great Britain (now usually referred to as LCM1990) followed by UK-wide land cover maps in 2000, 2007, 2015 and annually since 2017. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/36343ace-d56a-43ea-9d48-2f434dafcb26 Morton, D. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3947-6463 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information pointOfContact Morton, R.D. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3947-6463 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Marston, C.G. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-2187 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author O'Neil, A.W. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3591-1034 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Rowland, C.S. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0459-506X ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher Land Cover theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication land cover habitat map GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Northern Ireland Northern Ireland GeoNames 2006-01-01 creation Land cover Biodiversity Action Plan otherRestrictions Controlled otherRestrictions 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. otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2022). Land Cover Map 2020 (land parcels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/36343ace-d56a-43ea-9d48-2f434dafcb26 vector 10 English utf8 environment biota imageryBaseMapsEarthCover 2020-01-01 2020-12-31 -8.178 -5.432 54.022 55.313 spatialite (.sqlite) NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://order-eidc.ceh.ac.uk/resources/PYRYFH5V/order Download the data Download a copy of this data order https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/36343ace-d56a-43ea-9d48-2f434dafcb26.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 UKCEH's automated land cover algorithms generated 10m classified pixels from Sentinel-2 satellite data. Training data were automatically selected from stable land covers over the interval of 2017 to 2019. A Random Forest classifier used these to classify four composite images representing per season median surface reflectance. 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 pixel classification into a land parcel spatial framework (the LCM2020 Classified Land Parcels product). The classified land parcels were compared to known land cover producing confusion matrix to determine overall and per class accuracy. Details are available from the product documentation. This product represents the LCM2020 Classified Land Parcel, Northern Ireland.