BGS Hosted Metadata
Land Cover Map 2015 (1km percentage target class, GB)
This dataset consists of the 1km raster, percentage target class version of the Land Cover Map 2015 (LCM2015) for Great Britain. The 1km percentage product provides the percentage cover for each of 21 land cover classes for 1km x 1km pixels. This product contains one band per target habitat class (producing a 21 band image). 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/10.5285/505d1e0c-ab60-4a60-b448-68c5bbae403e
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2017-04-11
- Date (Creation)
- 2017-03-01
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/505d1e0c-ab60-4a60-b448-68c5bbae403e
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/505d1e0c-ab60-4a60-b448-68c5bbae403e
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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 (1km percentage target class, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/505d1e0c-ab60-4a60-b448-68c5bbae403e
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Rowland, C.S.
Point of contact 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 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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- Registration is required to access this data
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- 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 (1km percentage target class, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/505d1e0c-ab60-4a60-b448-68c5bbae403e
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 1000 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
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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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
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/505d1e0c-ab60-4a60-b448-68c5bbae403e Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/505d1e0c-ab60-4a60-b448-68c5bbae403e.zip Supporting information
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/2b2f193e-907b-4cc8-8b65-82eff6aed2d0?request=getCapabilities&service=WMS&nocache=true Web map service
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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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The percentage target class is produced from the 25m raster (which is derived from the vector product) by: 1. Using gdal_calc to split the 21 target classes into 21 individual images for each class where the presence of the class in question is recorded as 100 and absence is assigned 0. 2. Gdal_warp is then applied to each of the 21 presence/absence images to resample to 1km, using the 'average' option under resample. This produces images of percentage cover for each class. 3. Gdal_merge is then used to create a single file with 21 bands, where each band provides the percentage cover for the class i.e. band 1 provides percentage cover for class 1 etc.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 505d1e0c-ab60-4a60-b448-68c5bbae403e XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-03-21T10:44:32
- 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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