Land Cover Map 2020 10m web map service

This is a web map service (WMS) for the 10-metre Land Cover Map 2020. The map presents the and surface classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. It is the first 10m resolution land cover map produced by UKCEH..
Publication date: 2020-12-10

Formats

JPEG
PNG
TIFF

Where/When

Study area
Temporal extent
2019-01-01    to    2019-12-31

Provenance & quality

UKCEH’s automated land cover classification algorithms generated the 10m classified pixels. Training data were automatically selected from stable land covers over the interval of 2017 to 2019. 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 pixel classification into a land parcel framework (the LCM2020 Classified Land Parcels product). The classified land parcels were compared to known land cover producing confusion matrix to determine overall and per class accuracy.

Correspondence/contact details

Dr. Dan Morton
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Other contacts

Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Keywords
Biodiversity,  Biodiversity,  Climate and land,  Ecosystem restoration,  Great Britain,  infoMapAccessService,  Land,  Land cover,  Land cover map,  Land Cover Map,  Mapping,  Maps,  Net zero greenhouse gas emissions,  UK-SCAPE,  Web map service,  WMS
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/R016429/1
Spatial reference system
WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator
Last updated
06 May 2022 14:52