Identification

Title

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

Abstract

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

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/c1d73bd3-33aa-4a5f-aac5-47c403c2a0e6.zip

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

https://order-eidc.ceh.ac.uk/resources/K1TR0PP1/order

description: Download a copy of this data

function: order

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/315e9cbb-efdc-4726-bf97-bd9176af3c9d?request=getCapabilities&service=WMS&cache=false&

description: A web map service is available for this dataset

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/c1d73bd3-33aa-4a5f-aac5-47c403c2a0e6

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

TM75 / Irish Grid

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

imageryBaseMapsEarthCover

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Habitats and Biotopes

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

Map

Habitat

Biodiversity Action Plan

Northern Ireland

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.178

East bounding longitude

-5.432

North bounding latitude

55.313

South bounding latitude

54.022

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2020-01-01

End position

2020-12-31

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2022-07-01

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

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.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

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

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

Environmental Information Data Centre

full postal address

Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg

Lancaster

LA1 4AP

email address

info@eidc.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-07-14T09:47:40

Metadata language

eng