Morton, R.D.; Rowland, C.S.; Wood, C.M.; Meek, L.; Marston, C.G.; Smith, G.M.

Land Cover Map 2007 (vector, GB) v1.2

Name: Land Cover Map 2007 (vector, GB) v1.2
Published: 2014-07-23

https://doi.org/10.5285/2ab0b6d8-6558-46cf-9cf0-1e46b3587f13 Cite this dataset

This is the most recent version of this dataset

This dataset consists of the vector version of the Land Cover Map 2007 for Great Britain, containing individual parcels of land cover. The dataset is part of a series of data products produced by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology known as LCM2007. LCM2007 is a parcel-based thematic classification of satellite image data covering the entire United Kingdom. The map updates and upgrades the Land Cover Map of Great Britain (LCMGB) 1990 and LCM2000. Like the earlier 1990 and 2000 products, LCM2007 is derived from a computer classification of satellite scenes obtained mainly from Landsat, IRS and SPOT sensors and also incorporates information derived from other ancillary datasets. LCM2007 was classified using a nomenclature corresponding to the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Broad Habitats, which encompasses the entire range of UK habitats. In addition, it recorded further detail where possible. The series of LCM2007 products includes vector and raster formats, with a number of different versions containing varying levels of detail and at different spatial resolutions.

Publication date: 2014-07-23

Format

ESRI file geodatabase (gdb)

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type: Vector
Spatial reference system: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent: 2005-09-02 to 2008-07-18

Provenance & quality

LCM2007 uses a spatial framework based on OS MasterMap (R). MasterMap was generalised to remove unnecessary detail, then the framework was segmented according to the underlying satellite data to split areas of non-uniform landscape. The data was classified according to a parcel-based supervised maximum likelihood classification procedure. The raster products are derived from the vector products. Version 1.2 includes the addition of OS tile HZ. See online documentation for further details.

This dataset is included in the following collections

Land Cover Map 2007

Citations

Redhead, J. W., Fox, R., Brereton, T., & Oliver, T. H. (2016). Assessing species’ habitat associations from occurrence records, standardised monitoring data and expert opinion: A test with British butterflies. Ecological Indicators, 62, 271–278. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolind.2015.11.004

Sunderland, T., Marsh, D., Lusardi, J., Hudson, C., & Waters, R. (2022). Meeting decision support requirements through natural capital accounts: a case study in England’s National Nature Reserves. Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy, 12(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1080/21606544.2022.2062455

Phillipson, J., Blair, G., & Henrys, P. (2022). Quantifying uncertainty in land cover mappings: An adaptive approach to sampling reference data using Bayesian inference. Environmental Data Science, 1. https://doi.org/10.1017/eds.2022.14

Marston, C.G., O’Neil, A.W., Morton, R.D., Wood, C.M., & Rowland, C.S. (2023). LCM2021 – the UK Land Cover Map 2021. In Earth System Science Data (Vol. 15, Issue 10, pp. 4631–4649). Copernicus GmbH. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-15-4631-2023

Supplemental information

R.D. Morton, C. Rowland, C. Wood, L. Meek, C. Marston, G. Smith, R. Wadsworth, I. Simpson. July 2011 CS Technical Report No 11/07: Final Report for LCM2007 - the new UK land cover map. NERC/Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH Project Number NEC03259).

http://www.countrysidesurvey.org.uk/content/final-report-lcm2007-new-uk-land-cover-map

Correspondence/contact details

Morton, R.D.

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

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