Date (Publication)

2025-07-18

Citation identifier

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4dd9df19-8df5-41a0-9829-8f6114e28db1

Citation identifier

doi: / 10.5285/4dd9df19-8df5-41a0-9829-8f6114e28db1

Other citation details

Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W. (2025). Land Cover Map 2024 (10m classified pixels, GB). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/4dd9df19-8df5-41a0-9829-8f6114e28db1

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Marston, C.G.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Point of contact
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Rowland, C.S.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	Marston, C.G.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology	O'Neil, A.W.	enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology		enquiries@ceh.ac.uk	Owner
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Custodian

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

• Land Cover

GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3

• land cover
• map
• habitat

Keywords

• Land cover
• Mapping

• Great Britain

• Biodiversity Action Plan

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W. (2025). Land Cover Map 2024 (10m classified pixels, GB). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/4dd9df19-8df5-41a0-9829-8f6114e28db1

Spatial representation type

Grid

Distance

10  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Language

English

Character set

UTF8

Topic category

• Environment
• Imagery base maps earth cover

Begin date

2024-01-01

End date

2024-12-31

Unique resource identifier

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Distribution format

Name	Version
TIFF

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Distributor

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://order-eidc.ceh.ac.uk/resources/X7SZY8GS/order	Download the data

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/4dd9df19-8df5-41a0-9829-8f6114e28db1.zip	Supporting information

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
	https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/688492ef-d9db-43b7-8107-3675c6150568?request=getCapabilities&service=WMS&cache=false&	WMS

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Dataset

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dataset

Statement

UKCEH’s automated land cover algorithms classify 10 m pixels across the whole of UK. A Random Forest classifier is used to classify four composite satellite images representing per season median surface reflectance, based on training data comprising locations of known land cover for 21 land cover classes. 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 10 m pixel classification into a land parcel framework (the LCM2024 classified land parcels product). The classified land parcels were compared to known land cover producing a confusion matrix to determine overall and per class accuracy. Details are available from the product documentation. The 25 m rasterised land parcels product is created by rasterising the corresponding land parcel product.

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4dd9df19-8df5-41a0-9829-8f6114e28db1 XML

Metadata language

English

Character set

8859 Part 1

Hierarchy level

Dataset

Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp

2026-02-27T13:50:52

Metadata standard name

UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre		info@eidc.ac.uk	Point of contact