Land Cover Map 2021 (10m classified pixels, GB)
This is a 10m pixel data set representing the land surface of Great Britain, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. It is a two-band raster in GeoTiff format. The first band gives the most likely land cover type; the second band gives the per-parcel probability of the land cover. 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/a22baa7c-5809-4a02-87e0-3cf87d4e223a
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https://order-eidc.ceh.ac.uk/resources/1748BQV8/order
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https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/a22baa7c-5809-4a02-87e0-3cf87d4e223a
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environment
Land Cover
publication
2008-06-01
Habitat
Biodiversity Action Plan
Great Britain
-8.648
1.768
60.861
49.864
2021-01-01
2021-12-31
publication
2022-08-03
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. The 25 m rasterised land parcels product is created by pixelating the corresponding land parcel product.
publication
2010-12-08
TIFF
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 (10m classified pixels, GB). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/a22baa7c-5809-4a02-87e0-3cf87d4e223a
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