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Land Cover Map 2024 10m web map service (WMS)

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https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/688492ef-d9db-43b7-8107-3675c6150568?request=getCapabilities&service=WMS&cache=false&
This is a web map service (WMS) for the Land Cover Map 2024 at 10-metre resolution. The map presents the and surface classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats.
Publication date: 2025-07-31
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Study area
Spatial reference system
WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator

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 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.

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The following copyright notice should be placed on all copies of information or images derived from the web map service:'Based upon LCM2024 © UKCEH 2025'

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Land Cover Map 2024

Correspondence/contact details

Marston, C.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
Lancashire
LA1 4AP
UNITED KINGDOM
 enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
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NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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Keywords
Great Britain , infoMapAccessService , land cover , Land cover , map , Mapping , Northern Ireland , Web map service (WMS)
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/R016429/1