UKCEH Land Cover Map 2017: 25m Raster for Great Britain

UKCEH Land Cover Map 2017 (LCM2017) is a 25-meter resolution raster dataset describing land cover across Great Britain. It uses UK Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitat classes and includes two additional bands indicating classification confidence. The dataset was created by the Environmental Information Data Centre with support from the UK-SCAPE programme and Natural Environment Research Council.

Use Cases

• Modeling land use change over time based on the 2017 snapshot and UKCEH Land Cover Classes.
• Assessing habitat distribution for conservation planning based on the UK Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitat framework.
• Analyzing classification confidence for specific land cover types using the two confidence indicator bands.
• Integrating land cover data into regional environmental models based on the 25-meter raster resolution.

Strengths

• Provides a standardized 25-meter raster grid for consistent spatial analysis.
• Includes two bands for classification confidence, allowing for uncertainty assessment.
• Based on the UK Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitat framework, a recognized ecological classification.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment for large-scale ML tasks.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, being limited to Great Britain.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Derived by rasterising the corresponding LCM2017 land parcels dataset into 25m pixels.

Time Range

2017

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 07:35:57.276220; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Britain