Land Cover Map 2021 (land parcels, GB)

This is a vector data set representing the land surface of Great Britain, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. This vector Land Parcel dataset is the result of intersecting the 10m raster classified pixel datasets with the UKCEH Land Parcel Spatial Framework to generate summary land parcel attributes for each land cover parcel. A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2021 products are available from the LCM2021 product documentation accompanying this dataset. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/398dd41e-3c08-47f5-811f-da990007643f

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: utf8

Dataset Reference Date (): 2022-08-02

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/398dd41e-3c08-47f5-811f-da990007643f

Identifier: doi: / 10.5285/398dd41e-3c08-47f5-811f-da990007643f

Other citation details: Marston, C., Rowland, C.S., O’Neil, A.W., Morton, R.D. (2022). Land Cover Map 2021 (land parcels, GB). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/398dd41e-3c08-47f5-811f-da990007643f

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Dr. Chris Marston

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Marston, C.

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

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - O’Neil, A.W.

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

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

Land Cover

Keywords

Land cover
Mapping
Habitat
Biodiversity Action Plan
Great Britain

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Other constraints: Bespoke licensing conditions apply to these data. If you choose to download the data, the UKCEH Data Licensing team will contact you to negotiate a licence.

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Other constraints: If you reuse this data, you should cite: Marston, C., Rowland, C.S., O’Neil, A.W., Morton, R.D. (2022). Land Cover Map 2021 (land parcels, GB). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/398dd41e-3c08-47f5-811f-da990007643f

Spatial representation type: vector

Distance: 10 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Topic category

Environment

Begin date: 2021-01-01

End date: 2021-12-31

Code: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: UKCEH’s automated land cover algorithms classify 10 m pixels across the whole of UK. Training data were automatically selected from stable land covers over the interval of 2018 to 2020. 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 LCM2021 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 documentation accompanying this dataset.

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File identifier: 398dd41e-3c08-47f5-811f-da990007643f XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

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Metadata Date: 2022-08-10T09:44:39

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

Environmental Information Data Centre

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK

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