Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB)
[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. 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. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c
dataset
https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c.zip
name: Supporting information
description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset
function: information
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CEH:EIDC:
eng
imageryBaseMapsEarthCover
Land Cover
publication
2008-06-01
creation
2006-01-01
Great Britain
land cover
habitats
-8.648
1.768
60.861
49.864
1990-01-01
1990-12-31
publication
1993-01-01
notPlanned
The Land Cover Map of Great Britain (LCMGB) was produced (at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) Monks Wood) using supervised maximum likelihood classifications of Landsat Thematic Mapper satellite data. See online supporting information for further details.
publication
2010-12-08
ESRI ASCII grid
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Fuller, R.M., Groom, G.B., Jones, A.R., Thomson, A.G. (1993). Land Cover Map 1990 (1km percentage target class, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0172cc8c-8b5c-46cf-b08a-785ab832e88c
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Natural Environment Research Council
owner
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
publisher
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
author
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
author
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
author
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
author
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
custodian
Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
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UK
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