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

Land Cover Map 2021 (land parcels, N. Ireland)

Name: Land Cover Map 2021 (land parcels, N. Ireland)
Published: 2022-08-02

https://doi.org/10.5285/abe1f414-6168-4e04-9dc9-4a658a3136ca Cite this dataset

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 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

Format

SQLite

Where/When

Study area
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 data.