BGS Hosted Metadata
Land Cover Map 2024 (10m classified pixels, GB)
[This dataset is embargoed until July 31, 2025]. This is a 10m pixel data set representing the land surface of Great Britain, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. It is a two-band raster in GeoTiff format. The first band gives the most likely land cover type; the second band gives the per-pixel probability of the land cover. A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2024 products are available from the LCM2024 product documentation.
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- Date (Publication)
- 2025-07-18
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/4dd9df19-8df5-41a0-9829-8f6114e28db1
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Marston, C.G.
Point of contact UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Rowland, C.S. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Marston, C.G. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology O'Neil, A.W. Author UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Owner NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Land Cover
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Embargoed
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- Licence terms and conditions apply
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 10 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Environment
- Imagery base maps earth cover
- Begin date
- 2024-01-01
- End date
- 2024-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Name Version TIFF
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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- Dataset
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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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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.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 4dd9df19-8df5-41a0-9829-8f6114e28db1 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-07-18T11:15:35
- 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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