Land Cover Change 1990-2015 (25m raster, GB)
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https://doi.org/10.5285/07b6e5e9-b766-48e5-a28c-5b3e35abecc0
This dataset consists of the 25m raster, Land Cover Change 1990 -2015 product for Great Britain. The dataset is produced from the Land Cover Map (LCM) 25m raster versions of LCM1990 and LCM2015 and reports Land Cover Change between 1990 and 2015 in six simplified classes. The product consists of five bands:
Band 1 – a raster version of LCM1990 in the six simplified classes;
Band 2 – a raster version of LCM2015 in the six simplified classes;
Band 3 – a binary layer, where 0 means no change between 1990 and 2015 and 1 means change between 1990 and 2015;
Band 4 – shows the 'change from' class;
Band 5 – provides the 'change to' class.
Full details of the Land Cover Change data set are provided in the Land Cover Change data set documentation, which users should consult.
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.
Band 1 – a raster version of LCM1990 in the six simplified classes;
Band 2 – a raster version of LCM2015 in the six simplified classes;
Band 3 – a binary layer, where 0 means no change between 1990 and 2015 and 1 means change between 1990 and 2015;
Band 4 – shows the 'change from' class;
Band 5 – provides the 'change to' class.
Full details of the Land Cover Change data set are provided in the Land Cover Change data set documentation, which users should consult.
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.
Publication date: 2020-06-26
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Format
TIFF
Spatial information
Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Temporal information
Temporal extent
1990-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Provenance & quality
Bands 1 and 2 are derived from the 25m raster versions of the Land Cover Maps for 1990 and 2015 respectively. The LCM data for 1990 and 2015 was cast from the original 21 classes into 6 simplified classes (see dataset documentation for details).
Band 3 (the binary change/no-change layer) maps differences between the simplified classes in 1990 and 2015. Band 3 and Band 1 are then used to create Band 4, the ‘change from' layer, which gives the 1990 class for change. Band 5, the ‘change to' layer, is calculated from Bands 3 and 2 and provides the 2015 ‘change to' class.
For further details about LCM1990 and LCM2015 are given in the dataset documents for those products.
Band 3 (the binary change/no-change layer) maps differences between the simplified classes in 1990 and 2015. Band 3 and Band 1 are then used to create Band 4, the ‘change from' layer, which gives the 1990 class for change. Band 5, the ‘change to' layer, is calculated from Bands 3 and 2 and provides the 2015 ‘change to' class.
For further details about LCM1990 and LCM2015 are given in the dataset documents for those products.
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Cite this dataset as:
Rowland, C.S.; Marston, C.G.; Morton, R.D.; O'Neil, A.W. (2020). Land Cover Change 1990-2015 (25m raster, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/07b6e5e9-b766-48e5-a28c-5b3e35abecc0
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Citations
Pakeman, R. J., O'Brien, D., Genney, D., & Brooker, R. W. (2022). Identifying drivers of change in bryophyte and lichen species occupancy in Scotland. In Ecological Indicators (Vol. 139, p. 108889). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2022.108889
Broughton, R.K., Parry, W., & Maziarz, M. (2020). Wilding of a post-industrial site provides a habitat refuge for an endangered woodland songbird, the British Willow Tit Poecile montanus kleinschmidti. In Bird Study (Vol. 67, Issue 3, pp. 269–278). Informa UK Limited. https://doi.org/10.1080/00063657.2020.1863333
Fryer, J., & Williams, I.D. (2021). Regional carbon stock assessment and the potential effects of land cover change. In Science of The Total Environment (Vol. 775, p. 145815). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.145815
Feeney, C.J., Godfrey, S., Cooper, J.R., Plater, A.J., & Dodds, D. (2022). Forecasting riverine erosion hazards to electricity transmission towers under increasing flow magnitudes. In Climate Risk Management (Vol. 36, p. 100439). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.crm.2022.100439
Liu, L., Dobson, B., & Mijic, A. (2022). Hierarchical systems integration for coordinated urban-rural water quality management at a catchment scale. In Science of The Total Environment (Vol. 806, p. 150642). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150642
Correspondence/contact details
Rowland, C.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM
enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM
Authors
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0459-506X Other contacts
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/R016429/1
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21 March 2025 13:21