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Land Cover Map 2015 (25m raster, GB)

This dataset consists of the 25m raster version of the Land Cover Map 2015 (LCM2015) for Great Britain. The 25m raster product consists of two bands: Band 1 - raster representation of the majority (dominant) class per polygon for 21 target habitat classes; Band 2 - mean per polygon probability as reported by the Random Forest classifier (see supporting information). 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. The 25m raster is the most detailed of the LCM2015 raster products both thematically and spatially, and it is used to derive the 1km products. 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/bb15e200-9349-403c-bda9-b430093807c7

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Date (Publication)
2017-04-11
Date (Creation)
2017-03-01
Citation identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/bb15e200-9349-403c-bda9-b430093807c7
Citation identifier
doi: / 10.5285/bb15e200-9349-403c-bda9-b430093807c7
Other citation details

Rowland, C.S., Morton, R.D., Carrasco, L., McShane, G., O'Neil, A.W., Wood, C.M. (2017). Land Cover Map 2015 (25m raster, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/bb15e200-9349-403c-bda9-b430093807c7

Point of contact
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Dr. Clare Rowland

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Point of contact

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Rowland, C.S.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Morton, R.D.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Carrasco, L.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

McShane, G.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

O'Neil, A.W.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Wood, C.M.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

info@eidc.ac.uk

Custodian

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

info@eidc.ac.uk

Publisher
Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

  • Land Cover

GeoNames

  • Wales
Keywords
  • Land cover
  • Mapping
  • Great Britain

  • England

  • Scotland

Access constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
no limitations
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints
Licence terms and conditions apply
Use constraints
Other restrictions
Other constraints

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 (25m raster, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/bb15e200-9349-403c-bda9-b430093807c7

Spatial representation type
Grid
Distance
25  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
Begin date
2014-01-01
End date
2015-12-01
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E
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Unique resource identifier
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Distribution format
Name Version

TIFF

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://order-eidc.ceh.ac.uk/resources/7RDVVS3B/order

Get the data

WWW:LINK-1.0-http--samples

https://mapapps2.bgs.ac.uk/waterdataexplorer/index.html?extent=349128.0707%2C44146.168%2C755528.8835%2C235175.7167%2C27700&showLayers=OS_Boundaryline_7486%3Bwms_9158%3Bwms_9158_LC.25m.GB

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OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/bb15e200-9349-403c-bda9-b430093807c7.zip

Supporting information

OnLine resource
Protocol Linkage Name
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/78b670a2-5483-45ab-b54f-9dce9c378197?request=getCapabilities&service=WMS&cache=false&

WMS

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Other

dataset

Conformance result

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
Pass
No
Statement

The 25m raster product is the most detailed of the LCM2015 raster products, both thematically and spatially, and it is derived from the LCM2015 vector product. For LCM2015 per-pixel classifications were conducted, using a random forest classification algorithm. The resultant classifications were then mosaicked together, with the best classifications taking priority. This produced a per-pixel classification of the UK, which was then 'imported' into the spatial framework, recording a number of attributes, including the majority class per polygon which is the Land Cover class for each polygon.

The 25m raster product consists of two bands:

* Band 1 - raster representation of the majority (dominant) class per-polygon for the 21 target classes

* Band 2 - mean per polygon probability as reported by the Random Forest classifier

Metadata

File identifier
bb15e200-9349-403c-bda9-b430093807c7 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
8859 Part 1
Parent identifier
Spatial Data Explorer (WebGIS)

863bb531-4c51-4a3f-858c-c592e8ba5bf7

Hierarchy level
Dataset
Hierarchy level name

dataset

Date stamp
2024-05-09T09:17:04.053049Z
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version

2.3

Metadata author
Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role

Environmental Information Data Centre

info@eidc.ac.uk

Point of contact
 
 

Overviews

overview
landcoverMap2015.PNG

Spatial extent

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Land Cover


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