LCM2007: Land Cover Map of Great Britain at 1km Resolution

LCM2007 provides a parcel-based thematic classification of satellite imagery covering the entire United Kingdom. The map updates and upgrades earlier land cover products from 1990 and 2000, using a nomenclature corresponding to the Joint Nature Conservation Committee Broad Habitats. It was produced by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and is distributed by the Environmental Information Data Centre.

Use Cases

• Analyze broad habitat distribution across Great Britain based on the 1km dominant target class raster.
• Monitor land cover change over time based on its role as an update to the 1990 and 2000 land cover maps.
• Model ecological processes at a national scale based on the UK-wide satellite-derived classification.
• Integrate land cover data into environmental assessments based on the JNCC Broad Habitats nomenclature.

Strengths

• Covers the entire United Kingdom, providing national-scale consistency.
• Updates and upgrades two previous land cover maps (1990 and 2000), enabling temporal analysis.
• Derived from a computer classification of satellite scenes from Landsat, IRS, and SPOT sensors.
• Classified using the standardized Joint Nature Conservation Committee Broad Habitats nomenclature.

Limitations

• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Data may reflect geographic/temporal bias inherent to uk_data.

Provenance

Source

Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Collection Method

Computer classification of satellite scenes (Landsat, IRS, SPOT) with ancillary datasets.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-07-02 19:11:48.861430; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Britain / United Kingdom