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Land Cover Map 1990 (25m raster, GB) v2

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
Topic
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Licence
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Summary

This dataset consists of the 25m raster version of the Land Cover Map 1990 (LCM1990) for Great Britain. The 25m raster product consists of three bands: Band 1 - raster representation of the majority (dominant) class per polygon for 21 target classes; Band 2 - mean per polygon probability as reported by the Random Forest classifier (see supporting information); Band 3 - percentage of the polygon covered by the majority class. The 21 target classes are based on the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Broad Habitats, which encompass the entire range of UK habitats. This dataset is derived from the vector version of the Land Cover Map, which contains individual parcels of land cover and is the highest available spatial resolution. The 25m raster is the most detailed of the LCM1990 raster products both thematically and spatially, and it is used to derive the 1km products. LCM1990 is a land cover map of the UK which was produced at the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology by classifying satellite images (mainly from 1989 and 1990) into 21 Broad Habitat-based classes. It is the first in a series of land cover maps for the UK, which also includes maps for 2000, 2007, 2015, 2017, 2018 and 2019. LCM1990 consists of a range of raster and vector products and users should familiarise themselves with the full range (see related records, the UKCEH web site and the LCM1990 Dataset documentation) to select the product most suited to their needs. 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/10.5285/1be1912a-916e-42c0-98cc-16460fac00e8

Data links

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Supporting information ZIP 30/7/2026
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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
1be1912a-916e-42c0-98cc-16460fac00e8
Extent (Latitude)
60.861° to 49.864°
Extent (Longitude)
-8.648° to 1.768°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2020-06-17
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Rowland, C.S., Marston, C.G., Morton, R.D., O'Neil, A.W. (2020). Land Cover Map 1990 (25m raster, GB) v2. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/1be1912a-916e-42c0-98cc-16460fac00e8
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng