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Morton, R.D.; Marston, C.G; O’Neil, A.W.; Rowland, C.S.

Land Cover Map 2023 (10m classified pixels, N. Ireland)

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https://doi.org/10.5285/17223091-ca33-41f8-bd5b-bdd2a222cdae
This is a 10m pixel data set representing the land surface of Northern Ireland, 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 LCM2023 products are available from the LCM2023 product documentation.
Publication date: 2024-05-20
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Format

TIFF

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Raster
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 25m rasterised land parcels product is created by pixelating the corresponding land parcel product.

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Cite this dataset as:
Morton, R.D.; Marston, C.G; O’Neil, A.W.; Rowland, C.S. (2024). Land Cover Map 2023 (10m classified pixels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/17223091-ca33-41f8-bd5b-bdd2a222cdae

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Services associated with this dataset

Land Cover Map 2023 10m web map service

This dataset is included in the following collections

Land Cover Map 2023

Correspondence/contact details

Marston, C.G
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Authors

Morton, R.D.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Marston, C.G
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
O’Neil, A.W.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Rowland, C.S.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Other contacts

Rights holder
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
environment
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
INSPIRE theme
Land Cover
Keywords
Biodiversity Action Plan , habitat , land cover , Land cover , map , Northern Ireland
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/R016429/1
Last updated
04 July 2024 10:12