Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB)
(Land Cover Map of Great Britain (1km percentage target class, GB))
(LCMGB (1km percentage target class, GB))
THIS DATASET HAS BEEN SUPERSEDED. The latest version is Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB) v2
The original 1990 Land Cover Map data set had a different spatial structure and set of land cover classes to the Land Cover Maps from 2015 onwards. To facilitate change mapping Land Cover Map 1990 has been recreated with the same thematic and spatial structures as the Land Cover Maps from 2015 onward. The new version supersedes this old version.
If you need access to this archived version, please contact the EIDC
The Land Cover Map of Great Britain 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB), is a raster digital dataset, providing a classification of land cover types into 25 classes, at a 1km resolution. The dataset consists of a set of 1km bands, each containing one of 25 target classes (or 'sub' classes). Each band of the dataset contains the percentage of the specified habitat class per 1km, derived from a higher resolution (25m) dataset. The map was produced using supervised maximum likelihood classifications of Landsat 5 Thematic Mapper satellite data. The 25 mapped classes include sea and inland waters, bare, suburban and urban areas, arable farmland, pastures and meadows, rough grass, grass heaths and moors, bracken, dwarf shrub heaths and moorland, scrub, deciduous and evergreen woodland, and upland and lowland bogs. It can potentially be used to plan, manage or monitor agriculture, ecology, conservation, forestry, environmental assessment, water supplies, urban spread, transport, telecommunications, recreation and mineral extraction. The map was produced in the early 1990s by a forerunner of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, at Monks Wood. Note: The bands in the dataset run from 1-26, not 0-25 as stated in the documentation. Hence '1' is unclassifed (not '0'), '2' is sea/estuary and so on.
Publication date: 1993-01-01
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