95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7 English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2025-11-13T16:18:39 UK GEMINI 2.3 WGS 84 Two-metre resolution land cover classification of the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus from WorldView imagery 2018 2021-09-29 publication https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7 10.5285/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7 doi: George, C.T., Gerard, F.F., Peyton, J.M., Pescott, O.L. (2021). Two-metre resolution land cover classification of the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus from WorldView imagery 2018. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7 This dataset contains land cover classification of the Akrotiri Peninsular of Cyprus, using WorldView Imagery at 2m resolution. Images from March 2018 and July 2018 were used. All the imagery was atmospherically corrected. The thematic detail of the map was generalised to the following main vegetation/cover types: bare, lake, temporary water, salt marsh, rush salt meadow, garrigue, sparse vegetation, grass, mixed woodland, Eucalyptus and Acacia. The cover classes salt marsh and rush salt meadow represent mosaics of vegetation communities. Due to Covid-19 restrictions, ground data collection was severely restricted, resulting in limited training and validation data. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7 George, C.T. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6318-2196 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Gerard, F.F. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5916-5174 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Peyton, J.M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8313-6194 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Pescott, O.L. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0685-8046 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author George, C. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk owner Land Cover theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication land cover GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Land cover Cyprus Akrotiri UK-SCAPE Salt lake otherRestrictions no limitations otherRestrictions This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence otherRestrictions Maxar Products. WorldView-2 © 2018 Maxar Technologies otherRestrictions Maxar Products. WorldView-3 © 2018 Maxar Technologies otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: George, C.T., Gerard, F.F., Peyton, J.M., Pescott, O.L. (2021). Two-metre resolution land cover classification of the Akrotiri Peninsular, Cyprus from WorldView imagery 2018. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7 vector 2 English utf8 imageryBaseMapsEarthCover 2018-03-03 2018-07-06 32.875 33.074 34.56 34.689 TIFF NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7 Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/95ab2233-ed8d-4c32-b82c-ae282ba567f7.zip Supporting information Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset information dataset dataset 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 2010-12-08 Data was generated using the ENVI Example Based Feature Extraction tool, from the following satellite images: WorldView-3 (WV-3) 1.2m multispectral (8 wavelength bands) from 3rd March 2018 and WorldView-2 (WV-2) 2.0m multispectral (8 wavelength bands) from 6th July 2018. The July imagery was a single image covering the whole Akrotiri peninsular, while the March imagery consisted of two images (east and west of peninsular) originating from different swaths, each with a different viewing angle. All the imagery was atmospherically corrected using the ENVI FLAASH software. For both east and west, the July and March imagery were resampled to ensure consistency in spatial resolution and combined into a single 2m 16 wavelength band image stack. The classification was validated using google maps and local knowledge due to COVID-19 restricting ground data collection.