Land Cover Map 2020: 25m Rasterized Land Parcels for Great Britain

A 25-meter pixel resolution raster dataset classifies the land surface of Great Britain into 21 UKCEH land cover classes based on Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. It is a three-band GeoTiff where bands represent the most likely land cover type, per-parcel probability, and parcel purity to indicate uncertainty. The dataset was produced by the Environmental Information Data Centre and is documented via a specific DOI.

Use Cases

• Modeling land use change over time based on the 21 UKCEH land cover classes.
• Assessing habitat connectivity and fragmentation using the 25-meter raster grid.
• Incorporating uncertainty into spatial analyses using the provided probability and purity bands.
• Validating remote sensing classification algorithms against a standardized UK land cover product.

Strengths

• Provides a measure of classification uncertainty through separate probability and purity bands scaled 0 to 100.
• Classifies land into 21 distinct UKCEH classes based on Biodiversity Action Plan habitats.
• Offers a standardized 25-meter pixel resolution for consistent national-scale analysis.

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 projects.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to uk_data, focusing solely on Great Britain.

Provenance

Source

Environmental Information Data Centre

Collection Method

Produced by rasterising three properties of a classified land parcels dataset.

Time Range

2020

Freshness

Last updated 2026-03-19 07:35:34.887888; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Great Britain