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Woody habitat corridor data in South West England

Publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
Updated
30 July 2026
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Summary

This dataset contains polylines depicting non-woodland linear tree and shrub features in Cornwall and much of Devon, derived from lidar data collected by the Tellus South West project. Data from a lidar (light detection and ranging) survey of South West England was used with existing open source GIS datasets to map non-woodland linear features consisting of woody vegetation. The output dataset is the product of several steps of filtering and masking the lidar data using GIS landscape feature datasets available from the Tellus South West project (digital terrain model (DTM) and digital surface model (DSM)), the Ordnance Survey (OS VectorMap District and OpenMap Local, to remove buildings) and the Forestry Commission (Forestry Commission National Forest Inventory Great Britain 2015, to remove woodland parcels). The dataset was tiled as 20 x 20 km shapefiles, coded by the bottom-left 10 km hectad name. Ground-truthing suggests an accuracy of 73.2% for hedgerow height classes. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/4b5680d9-fdbc-40c0-96a1-4c022185303f

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Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
24 July 2026
Harvest GUID
4b5680d9-fdbc-40c0-96a1-4c022185303f
Extent (Latitude)
51.281° to 49.943°
Extent (Longitude)
-5.781° to -3.475°
Dataset reference date (publication)
2017-03-21
Dataset reference date (creation)
2017-02-28
Access constraints
© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Responsible party
(author, pointOfContact, publisher, owner, custodian)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng