Land Cover Map 2024 (land parcels, GB)

https://doi.org/10.5285/d036a1c2-77b2-40ef-a14d-d21fb394b595

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This is a vector data set representing the land surface of Great Britain, 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 dataset 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 LCM2024 products are available from the LCM2024 product documentation.

Publication date: 2025-07-18

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Format

spatialite (.sqlite)

Spatial information

Study area

Spatial representation type

Vector

Spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent

2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31

Provenance & quality

UKCEH’s automated land cover algorithms classify 10 m pixels across the whole of UK. A Random Forest classifier is used to classify four composite satellite images representing per season median surface reflectance, based on training data comprising locations of known land cover for 21 land cover classes. 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. Details are available from the product documentation.

The 25 m rasterised land parcels product is created by rasterising the corresponding land parcel product.

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Bespoke licensing conditions apply to these data. If you choose to download the data, the UKCEH Data Licensing team will contact you to negotiate a licence.

Cite this dataset as:

Rowland, C.S.; Marston, C.G.; O'Neil, A.W. (2025). Land Cover Map 2024 (land parcels, GB). NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/d036a1c2-77b2-40ef-a14d-d21fb394b595

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