BGS Hosted Metadata
Land Cover Map 1990 (25m raster, GB)
[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This dataset consists of the 25m raster version of the Land Cover Map 1990 (LCM1990) for Great Britain. The 25m raster product consists of three bands: Band 1 - raster representation of the majority (dominant) class per polygon for 21 target classes; Band 2 - mean per polygon probability as reported by the Random Forest classifier (see supporting information); Band 3 - percentage of the polygon covered by the majority class. The 21 target classes are based on the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Broad Habitats, which encompass the entire range of UK habitats. This dataset is derived from the vector version of the Land Cover Map, which contains individual parcels of land cover and is the highest available spatial resolution. The 25m raster is the most detailed of the LCM1990 raster products both thematically and spatially, and it is used to derive the 1km products. LCM1990 is a land cover map of the UK which was produced at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology by classifying satellite images (mainly from 1989 and 1990) into 21 Broad Habitat-based classes. It is the first in a series of land cover maps for the UK, which also includes maps for 2000, 2007, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. LCM1990 consists of a range of raster and vector products and users should familiarise themselves with the full range (see related records, the CEH web site and the LCM1990 Dataset documentation) to select the product most suited to their needs. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/3d974cbe-743d-41da-a2e1-f28753f13d1e
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- Date (Publication)
- 1993-01-01
- Citation identifier
- CEH:EIDC: / 1292507524532
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/3d974cbe-743d-41da-a2e1-f28753f13d1e
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/3d974cbe-743d-41da-a2e1-f28753f13d1e
- Other citation details
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Fuller, R.M., Groom, G.B., Jones, A.R., Thomson, A.G. (1993). Land Cover Map 1990 (25m raster, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/3d974cbe-743d-41da-a2e1-f28753f13d1e
- Point of contact
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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 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 Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher 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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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Superseded
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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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 (25m raster, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/3d974cbe-743d-41da-a2e1-f28753f13d1e
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 25 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 http://www.ceh.ac.uk/services/land-cover-map-1990 CEH Website
- 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 25m raster product is the most detailed of the LCM1990 raster products, both thematically and spatially, and it is derived from the LCM1990 vector product. For LCM1990 per-pixel classifications were conducted, using a random forest classification algorithm. The resultant classifications were then mosaicked together, with the best classifications taking priority. This produced a per-pixel classification of the UK, which was then 'imported' into the spatial framework, recording a number of attributes, including the majority class per polygon which is the Land Cover class for each polygon. The 25m raster product consists of three bands: Band 1 - raster representation of the majority (dominant) class per-polygon for the 21 target classes; Band2 - mean per polygon probability as reported by the Random Forest classifier; Band 3 -percentage of polygon covered by the majority class
Metadata
- File identifier
- 3d974cbe-743d-41da-a2e1-f28753f13d1e XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T13:22:55
- 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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