Land Cover Map 2018 (land parcels, GB)

This is the land parcels (polygon) dataset for the UKCEH Land Cover Map of 2018(LCM2018) representing Great Britain. It describes Great Britain's land cover in 2018 using UKCEH Land Cover Classes, which are based on UK Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. This dataset was derived from the corresponding LCM2018 20m classified pixels dataset. All further LCM2018 datasets for Great Britain are derived from this land parcel product. A range of land parcel attributes are provided. These include the dominant UKCEH Land Cover Class given as an integer value, and a range of per-parcel pixel statistics to help to assess classification confidence and accuracy; for a full explanation please refer to the dataset documentation.

LCM2018 represents a suite of geospatial land cover datasets (raster and polygon) describing the UK land surface in 2018. These were produced at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology by classifying satellite images from 2018. LCM2018 was simultaneously released with LCM2017 and LCM2019. These are the latest in a series of UKCEH land cover maps, which began with the 1990 Land Cover Map of Great Britain (now usually referred to as LCM1990) followed by UK-wide land cover maps LCM2000, LCM2007 and LCM2015.

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/10.5285/9f7f7f70-5137-4bfc-a6a3-f91783d5a6a6

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Metadata Language: English (en)

Character set: utf8

Dataset Reference Date (): 2020-06-23

Identifier: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/9f7f7f70-5137-4bfc-a6a3-f91783d5a6a6

Identifier: doi: / 10.5285/9f7f7f70-5137-4bfc-a6a3-f91783d5a6a6

Other citation details: Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O’Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2020). Land Cover Map 2018 (land parcels, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/9f7f7f70-5137-4bfc-a6a3-f91783d5a6a6

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

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

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

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

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Dr. Dan Morton

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

NERC Environmental Information Data Centre

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

Land Cover

Keywords

Land cover
Mapping
vector
LCM2018
UK-SCAPE

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Other constraints: Bespoke licensing terms 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: Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O’Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2020). Land Cover Map 2018 (land parcels, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/9f7f7f70-5137-4bfc-a6a3-f91783d5a6a6

Spatial representation type: vector

Distance: 20 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001

Topic category

Imagery base maps earth cover
Environment

Begin date: 2018-01-01

End date: 2018-12-31

Code: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

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Dataset Reference Date (): 2010-12-08

Statement: The Land Parcels datasets of the LCM2017, LCM2018 and LCM2019 product range were derived from the corresponding 20m Classified Pixels datasets. They give per-parcel land cover information in 21 classes based on UK Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. A UK spatial framework of land parcels (vector-polygons) representing real-world objects (for example: fields, lakes, urban areas and so forth) was intersected with the 20m Classified Pixels to generate per-parcel pixel statistics. These include a histogram recording pixel frequency per land cover class, the modal land cover class, the total number of pixels and three attribute indicators of classification confidence. Land parcel classification results were validated against independently collected ground observations. All calculations were performed within a PosGIS database. Results were extracted from PostGIS using the QGIS export facility to give the final product as a SpatiaLite vector geodatabse. SpatiaLite is an open standard file format for geospatial vector databases and SpatiLite files can be read by most GIS software.

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File identifier: 9f7f7f70-5137-4bfc-a6a3-f91783d5a6a6 XML

Metadata Language: English (en)

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Metadata Date: 2021-06-25T18:39:43

Metadata standard name: UK GEMINI

Metadata standard version: 2.3

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