BGS Hosted Metadata
Land Cover Map 2015 (25m raster, N. Ireland)
This dataset consists of the 25m raster version of the Land Cover Map 2015 (LCM2015) for Northern Ireland. This is the most detailed of the LCM2015 raster products both thematically and spatially, and it is used to derive the 1km products. The 25m raster product consists of two bands: Band 1 - raster representation of the majority (dominant) class per polygon for 21 target habitat classes; Band 2 - mean per polygon probability as reported by the Random Forest classifier (see supporting information). 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. LCM2015 is a land cover map of the UK which was produced at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology by classifying satellite images from 2014 and 2015 into 21 Broad Habitat-based classes. LCM2015 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 LCM2015 Dataset documentation) to select the product most suited to their needs. LCM2015 was produced at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology by classifying satellite images from 2014 and 2015 into 21 Broad Habitat-based classes. It is one of a series of land cover maps, produced by UKCEH since 1990. They include versions in 1990, 2000, 2007, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/47f053a0-e34f-4534-a843-76f0a0998a2f
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- Date (Publication)
- 2017-04-11
- Date (Creation)
- 2017-03-01
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/47f053a0-e34f-4534-a843-76f0a0998a2f
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/47f053a0-e34f-4534-a843-76f0a0998a2f
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Rowland, C.S., Morton, R.D., Carrasco, L., McShane, G., O'Neil, A.W., Wood, C.M. (2017). Land Cover Map 2015 (25m raster, N. Ireland). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/47f053a0-e34f-4534-a843-76f0a0998a2f
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Rowland, C.S.
Point of contact NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Rowland, C.S. Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Morton, R.D. Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Carrasco, L. Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology McShane, G. Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology O'Neil, A.W. Author Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wood, C.M. 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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- Other restrictions
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- unknown
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- Licence terms and conditions apply
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Rowland, C.S., Morton, R.D., Carrasco, L., McShane, G., O'Neil, A.W., Wood, C.M. (2017). Land Cover Map 2015 (25m raster, N. Ireland). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/47f053a0-e34f-4534-a843-76f0a0998a2f
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 25 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Begin date
- 2014-01-01
- End date
- 2015-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- TM75 / Irish Grid
- Distribution format
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Name Version TIFF
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
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Protocol Linkage Name https://order-eidc.ceh.ac.uk/resources/X24HZGDN/order Get the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/47f053a0-e34f-4534-a843-76f0a0998a2f.zip Supporting information
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- Dataset
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dataset
Conformance result
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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 LCM2015 raster products, both thematically and spatially, and it is derived from the LCM2015 vector product. For LCM2015 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 two bands: - Band 1 - raster representation of the majority (dominant) class per-polygon for the 21 target classes - Band 2 - mean per polygon probability as reported by the Random Forest classifier
Metadata
- File identifier
- 47f053a0-e34f-4534-a843-76f0a0998a2f XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T10:44:44
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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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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