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Land Cover Map 2020 (10m classified pixels, N. Ireland)

This is a 10m pixel data set representing the land surface, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. The pixel product is given as a two-band raster in geoTiff format. The first band gives the most likely land cover type; the second band gives the probability associated with this land cover. The probability layer is an indicator of uncertainty (rescaled 0 to 100). Low values correspond to low certainty (higher uncertainty). A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2020 products are available from the LCM2020 product documentation. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/78d3824b-2612-4707-ae2e-26f82bdd5dad

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Date (Publication)
2022-03-21
Citation identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/78d3824b-2612-4707-ae2e-26f82bdd5dad
Citation identifier
doi: / 10.5285/78d3824b-2612-4707-ae2e-26f82bdd5dad
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Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2022). Land Cover Map 2020 (10m classified pixels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/78d3824b-2612-4707-ae2e-26f82bdd5dad

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Morton, R.D.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Marston, C.G.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology O'Neil, A.W.

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Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Rowland, C.S.

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Author
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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Custodian
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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Owner
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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Publisher
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Morton, R.D.

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land Cover

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2022). Land Cover Map 2020 (10m classified pixels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/78d3824b-2612-4707-ae2e-26f82bdd5dad

Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
10  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
2020-01-01
End date
2020-12-31
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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TIFF

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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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OnLine resource
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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/78d3824b-2612-4707-ae2e-26f82bdd5dad.zip

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https://order-eidc.ceh.ac.uk/resources/X98EY1YR/order

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https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/51bcb92a-dd88-4034-ba65-a9d432dd632a?request=getCapabilities&service=WMS&cache=false&

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Title

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

UKCEH's automated land cover classification algorithms generated the 10m classified pixels. Training data were automatically selected from stable land covers over the interval of 2017 to 2019. A Random Forest classifier used these to classify four composite images representing per season median surface reflectance. 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 pixel classification into a land parcel framework (the LCM2020 Classified Land Parcels product). The classified land parcels were compared to known land cover producing confusion matrix to determine overall and per class accuracy. Details are available from the product documentation. This is the first 10m resolution land cover map produced by UKCEH. It succeeds 20m resolution classified pixel products from 2017, 2018 and 2019. Prior to 2017 classified pixels are not available as part of the UKCEH LCM product suite. The classified pixels represent the core dataset from which the remaining products in the LCM2020 suite are derived. These include LCM2020 classified land parcels and the LCM2020 25m rasterised land parcels product.

Metadata

File identifier
78d3824b-2612-4707-ae2e-26f82bdd5dad XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
8859 Part 1
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dataset

Date stamp
2025-03-21T10:44:26
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Land Cover


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