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Rayner, M. (2020). Fine resolution land cover map of the Upper Welland Catchment, UK for 2018. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. (Dataset). https://doi.org/10.5285/63b748ee-22a4-42ca-8a34-20321f6ab8af
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Fine resolution land cover map of the Upper Welland Catchment, UK for 2018
This dataset is a fine resolution 2018 land cover map of the headwaters region of the Welland River Catchment, UK, projected in British national grid. It has a spatial resolution of 10m and thematic resolution of 10 classes. The map covers a 340km2 region across the English counties of Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire with predominantly agricultural land use.
Publication date: 2020-07-27
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Format
TIFF
Spatial information
- Study area
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- Spatial representation type
- Raster
- Spatial reference system
- WGS 84
Temporal information
- Temporal extent
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2018-05-01 to 2018-09-30
Provenance & quality
The land cover map was produced through a supervised classification (random forest) of an eight image mosaic of Sentinel-2 imagery captured between 01/05/2018 - 30/09/2018. Training data was collated from crop records of the region held by local land managers, Crop Map of England (CROME) 2018 from the Rural Payments Agency and LCM2018 (Land Cover Map 2018) from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Map accuracy was assessed through a confusion matrix of 700 randomly sampled points across the study area and the K coefficient. Overall classification accuracy was 92.1% and the K coefficient was 0.91. Class level accuracy assessments are presented in the supporting information.
Citations
Rayner, M., Balzter, H., Jones, L., Whelan, M., & Stoate, C. (2021). Effects of improved land-cover mapping on predicted ecosystem service outcomes in a lowland river catchment. In Ecological Indicators (Vol. 133, p. 108463). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108463
Correspondence/contact details
Author
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5731-2115 Other contacts
- Custodian
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
- Publisher
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NERC Environmental Information Data Centreinfo@eidc.ac.uk
Additional metadata
- Topic categories
- imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
- INSPIRE theme
- Land Cover
- Keywords
- catchment , Catchment Planning , Ecosystem services , land cover , Land cover map , landscape ecology , Land use , remote sensing , resources management
- Funding
- Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/L002493/1
- Last updated
- 13 February 2024 08:57