Land Cover Map 2021 (land parcels, GB)

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https://doi.org/10.5285/398dd41e-3c08-47f5-811f-da990007643f

This is a vector data set representing the land surface of Great Britain, 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 LCM2021 products are available from the LCM2021 product documentation accompanying this dataset.

Publication date: 2022-08-02

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SQLite

Spatial information

Study area

Spatial representation type

Vector

Spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent

2021-01-01 to 2021-12-31

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 2018 to 2020. 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 LCM2021 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 accompanying this dataset.

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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:

Marston, C.; Rowland, C.S.; O’Neil, A.W.; Morton, R.D. (2022). Land Cover Map 2021 (land parcels, GB). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/398dd41e-3c08-47f5-811f-da990007643f

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Citations

Cork, N.A., Fisher, R.S., Strong, N., Ferranti, E.J.S., & Quinn, A.D. (2024). A systematic review of factors influencing habitat connectivity and biodiversity along road and rail routes in temperate zones. In Frontiers in Environmental Science (Vol. 12). Frontiers Media SA. https://doi.org/10.3389/fenvs.2024.1369072

Hudson, C., Lovell, H., Pearson, A.W., Schaefer, M., & Soar, P.J. (2024). A GIS‐based approach to site vegetated buffer strips for erosion control within an agricultural catchment in southern England. In Hydrological Processes (Vol. 38, Issue 5). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/hyp.15165

Visick, O.D., Adams, I., Ney, P., Marzano, F.S., & Ratnieks, F.L.W. (2024). Do nest sites limit wild honey bee colonies? Decoding swarm waggle dances to assess nest site availability. In Ecological Entomology. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1111/een.13361

Porton, G., Wrigley, R., Scott, C.E., & Spracklen, D.V. (2024). Natural colonisation rates in a UK upland landscape under different conservation management approaches following sheep removal. In Ecological Solutions and Evidence (Vol. 5, Issue 2). Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/2688-8319.12338