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Fine resolution land cover map of the Upper Welland Catchment, UK for 2018

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https://doi.org/10.5285/63b748ee-22a4-42ca-8a34-20321f6ab8af
This dataset is a fine resolution 2018 land cover map of the headwaters region of the Welland River Catchment, UK, projected in British national grid. It has a spatial resolution of 10m and thematic resolution of 10 classes. The map covers a 340km2 region across the English counties of Leicestershire, Rutland and Northamptonshire with predominantly agricultural land use.
Publication date: 2020-07-27
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Format

TIFF

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Raster
Spatial reference system
WGS 84

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2018-05-01    to    2018-09-30

Provenance & quality

The land cover map was produced through a supervised classification (random forest) of an eight image mosaic of Sentinel-2 imagery captured between 01/05/2018 - 30/09/2018. Training data was collated from crop records of the region held by local land managers, Crop Map of England (CROME) 2018 from the Rural Payments Agency and LCM2018 (Land Cover Map 2018) from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Map accuracy was assessed through a confusion matrix of 700 randomly sampled points across the study area and the K coefficient. Overall classification accuracy was 92.1% and the K coefficient was 0.91. Class level accuracy assessments are presented in the supporting information.

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This dataset is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence

Cite this dataset as:
Rayner, M. (2020). Fine resolution land cover map of the Upper Welland Catchment, UK for 2018. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/63b748ee-22a4-42ca-8a34-20321f6ab8af

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Citations

Rayner, M., Balzter, H., Jones, L., Whelan, M., & Stoate, C. (2021). Effects of improved land-cover mapping on predicted ecosystem service outcomes in a lowland river catchment. In Ecological Indicators (Vol. 133, p. 108463). Elsevier BV. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2021.108463

Correspondence/contact details

Rayner, M.
University of Leicester
 mjr59@le.ac.uk

Author

Rayner, M.
University of Leicester

Other contacts

Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
INSPIRE theme
Land Cover
Keywords
catchment , Catchment Planning , Ecosystem services , land cover , Land cover map , landscape ecology , Land use , remote sensing , resources management
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/L002493/1
Last updated
13 February 2024 08:57