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Land Cover Map 2023 (1km summary rasters, GB and N. Ireland)

This 1 km summary pixel data set represents the land surface of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, classified using two classification schemas, target and aggregate classes. The target class schema comprise 21 UKCEH land cover classes based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. The aggregate class schema comprises 10 aggregate classes that are groupings of the 21 target classes. The aggregate classes group some of the more specialised target classes into more general classes. For example, the five coastal classes in the target class are grouped into a single aggregate class. The 1km percentage product provides the percentage cover for each of the 21 land cover classes for 1km x 1km pixels. This product contains one band per habitat class, producing 21 and 10 band images for the target and aggregate class products respectively. The 1km dominant coverage product is based on the 1km percentage product, and reports the land cover class with the highest percentage cover for each 1km pixel. A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2023 products are available from the LCM2023 product documentation accompanying this dataset. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b

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Date (Publication)
2024-05-20
Citation identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b
Citation identifier
doi: / 10.5285/96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b
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Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O'Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2024). Land Cover Map 2023 (1km summary rasters, GB and N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b

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

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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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Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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Custodian
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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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. (2024). Land Cover Map 2023 (1km summary rasters, GB and N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b

Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
1000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
Begin date
2023-01-01
End date
2023-12-31
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Unique resource identifier
TM 75 / Irish Grid (EPSG: 29903)
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b.zip

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dataset

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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

UKCEH's automated land cover algorithms classify 10 m pixels across the whole of UK. 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 10 m pixel classification into a land parcel framework (the LCM2023 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 documentationaccompanying this dataset. The 1 km percentage and dominant products are created by calculating the percentage cover for each land cover classes for every 1km x 1km pixel, then reporting the dominant land cover class with the highest percentage cover for each 1km pixel.

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96bc980a-31b4-4d1b-87e9-007d4932a56b XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
8859 Part 1
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Dataset
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dataset

Date stamp
2025-03-21T10:44:24
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Land Cover


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