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

Land Cover Map 2022 (land parcels, GB)

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https://doi.org/10.5285/80abddf7-3feb-43f8-9244-c5fdb6980075
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 LCM2022 products are available from the LCM2022 product documentation.
Publication date: 2024-05-21
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Format

SpatiaLite

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Vector
Spatial reference system
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2022-01-01    to    2022-12-31

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 2019 to 2021. 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 LCM2022 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:
Marston, C.G.; Morton, R.D.; O’Neil, A.W.; Rowland, C.S. (2024). Land Cover Map 2022 (land parcels, GB). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/80abddf7-3feb-43f8-9244-c5fdb6980075

Related

This dataset is included in the following collections

Land Cover Map 2022

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

Marston, C.G.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Morton, R.D.
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 , Great Britain , habitat , land cover , Land cover , map
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/R016429/1
Last updated
04 July 2024 10:10