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A high-resolution habitat map for England (LCM 3m)
'A high-resolution habitat map for England (LCM 3m)' is a national-scale 3 m resolution Land Cover Map for England. It was produced using a 12-month time series of analysis-ready PlanetScope monthly basemap imagery with contextual geospatial datasets and extensive training data to classify land cover into 72 categories, broadly aligned with the UK Habitat Classification framework (UKHab). A full description of the data set and production workflow is available in the LCM 3m product documentation.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- 72-class land cover map · habitat classes broadly aligned with UKHab
- Coverage docs-verified
- England · 2023 (imagery January to December 2023)
- Resolution docs-verified
- 3 m spatial resolution
- Formats docs-verified
- TIFF
- Access docs-verified
- Licensed, not open. Academic non-commercial access via EDINA Environment Digimap; commercial and other uses need a separate licence with fees, royalties or revenue-sharing. Licence: Non-Open government licence
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Habitat baseline for BNG metric inputs on England-wide desk studies · Land cover context for FRA catchment runoff and permeability assumptions · Desk-based ecological constraints screening for drainage and civils site options
- Audience llm-inferred
- ecologists · GIS analysts · hydrologists · drainage engineers · planners
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Commercial use requires a separate licence, not the academic route · Imagery is from 2023, so later land cover change is not reflected · No API or MCP access is described; data is obtained via Digimap · Accuracy is reported at national level only, so local reliability needs checking
- Licence
- Non-Open government licence
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 16/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Listed in ukceh-eidc public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (ukceh-eidc)