Land Cover Map 2023 (land parcels, N. Ireland)

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https://doi.org/10.5285/0ff4958d-47bc-4260-9aaf-399de3b83b6f

This is a vector data set representing the land surface of Northern Ireland, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. This vector Land Parcel dataset is the result of intersecting the 10m raster classified pixel datasets with the UKCEH Land Parcel Spatial Framework to generate summary land parcel attributes for each land cover parcel. A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2023 products are available from the LCM2023 product documentation.

Publication date: 2024-05-20

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SpatiaLite

Spatial information

Study area

Spatial representation type

Vector

Spatial reference system

TM 75 / Irish Grid (EPSG: 29903)

Temporal information

Temporal extent

2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31

Provenance & quality

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 2020 to 2022. 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 LCM2023 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.
The 25 m rasterised land parcels product is created by pixelating the corresponding land parcel product.

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Bespoke licensing conditions apply to these data. If you choose to download the data, the UKCEH Data Licensing team will contact you to negotiate a licence.

Cite this dataset as:

Morton, R.D.; Marston, C.G.; O'Neil, A.W.; Rowland, C.S. (2024). Land Cover Map 2023 (land parcels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/0ff4958d-47bc-4260-9aaf-399de3b83b6f

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