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

Land Cover Map 2023 (25m rasterised land parcels, N. Ireland)

Name: Land Cover Map 2023 (25m rasterised land parcels, N. Ireland)
Published: 2024-05-17
License: https://eidc.ceh.ac.uk/licences/lcm-raster/plain

https://doi.org/10.5285/becb5f16-948f-407b-8fa3-f7762ba6efb6 Cite this dataset

This is a 25m pixel data set representing the land surface of Northern Ireland, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. It is a three-band raster in GeoTiff format, produced by rasterising three properties of the classified land parcels dataset. The first band gives the most likely land cover type; the second band gives the per-parcel probability of the land cover, the third band is a measure of parcel purity. The probability and purity bands (scaled 0 to 100) combine to give an indication of uncertainty. A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2023 products are available from the LCM2023 product documentation.

Publication date: 2024-05-17

Format

TIFF

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type: Raster
Spatial reference system: TM 75 / Irish Grid (EPSG: 29903)

Temporal information

Temporal extent: 2023-01-01 to 2023-12-31

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 2020 to 2022. 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 LCM2023 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.