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Land Cover Map 2020 (25m rasterised land parcels, N. Ireland)

This is a 25m pixel data set representing the land surface of Northern Ireland, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. It is a three-band raster in GeoTiff format, produced by rasterising three properties of the classified land parcels dataset. The first band gives the most likely land cover type; the second band gives the per-parcel probability of the land cover, the third band is a measure of parcel purity. The probability and purity bands (scaled 0 to 100) combine to give an indication of uncertainty. A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2020 products are available from the LCM2020 product documentation. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/c1d73bd3-33aa-4a5f-aac5-47c403c2a0e6

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Metadata Language
English (en)
Character set
utf8
Dataset Reference Date ()
2022-07-01
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/c1d73bd3-33aa-4a5f-aac5-47c403c2a0e6
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/c1d73bd3-33aa-4a5f-aac5-47c403c2a0e6
Other citation details
Morton, R.D., Marston, C.G., O’Neil, A.W., Rowland, C.S. (2022). Land Cover Map 2020 (25m rasterised land parcels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/c1d73bd3-33aa-4a5f-aac5-47c403c2a0e6
  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
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Morton, R.D.
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
  • Habitats and Biotopes
Keywords
  • Land cover
  • Map
  • Habitat
  • Biodiversity Action Plan
  • Northern Ireland
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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. (2022). Land Cover Map 2020 (25m rasterised land parcels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/c1d73bd3-33aa-4a5f-aac5-47c403c2a0e6
Spatial representation type
grid
Distance
25  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Topic category
  • Imagery base maps earth cover
  • Environment
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Begin date
2020-01-01
End date
2020-12-31
 
Reference system identifier
TM75 / Irish Grid

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Data format
  • TIFF ()

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Dataset Reference Date ()
2010-12-08
Statement

UKCEH’s automated land cover algorithms classify 10m pixels across the whole of UK. Training data were automatically selected from stable land covers over the interval of 2017 to 2019. 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 10m pixel classification into a land parcel framework (the LCM2020 classified land parcels, Northern Ireland 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.

The 25m rasterised land parcels, N. Ireland is created by pixelating the corresponding land parcel product.

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File identifier
c1d73bd3-33aa-4a5f-aac5-47c403c2a0e6 XML
Metadata Language
English (en)
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)
Resource type
dataset
Hierarchy level name
dataset
Metadata Date
2022-07-14T09:47:40
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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