Rowland, C.S.; Marston, C.G.; O'Neil, A.W.

Land Cover Map 2024 (land parcels, N. Ireland)

https://doi.org/10.5285/99ecdc84-5313-48c2-9fad-6a5e8ad3953e
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This is a vector data set representing the land surface of Northern Ireland, 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 dataset 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 LCM2024 products are available from the LCM2024 product documentation.
Publication date: 2025-07-18
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SpatiaLite

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Vector
Spatial reference system
EPSG:29903 - TM75 / Irish Grid
Spatial resolution
10 metres

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2024-01-01    to    2024-12-31

Provenance & quality

UKCEH’s automated land cover algorithms classify 10 m pixels across the whole of UK. A Random Forest classifier is used to classify four composite satellite images representing per season median surface reflectance, based on training data comprising locations of known land cover for 21 land cover classes. 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 LCM2024 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 rasterising the corresponding land parcel product.

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Cite this dataset as:
Rowland, C.S.; Marston, C.G.; O'Neil, A.W. (2025). Land Cover Map 2024 (land parcels, N. Ireland). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/99ecdc84-5313-48c2-9fad-6a5e8ad3953e

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Correspondence/contact details

Marston, C.G.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Authors

Rowland, C.S.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0459-506X
Marston, C.G.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-2187
O'Neil, A.W.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3591-1034

Other contacts

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

Topic categories
environment
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
INSPIRE theme
Land Cover
Keywords
Biodiversity Action Plan , habitat , land cover , Land cover , map , Mapping , Northern Ireland
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/Y006208/1