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Land Cover Map 2015 (1km percentage target class, GB) Web Map Service
This web map service (WMS) is the 1km percentage target class version of the Land Cover Map 2015 (LCM2015) for Great Britain. It shows the percentage cover for each of 21 land cover classes for 1km x 1km pixels. The 21 target classes are based on the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) Broad Habitats, which encompass the entire range of UK habitats.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- percentage cover per land cover class (21 target classes) · 1 km x 1 km pixel land cover composition based on JNCC Broad Habitats
- Coverage docs-verified
- Great Britain · 2015
- Resolution docs-verified
- 1 km x 1 km pixels (spatial); no temporal resolution stated
- Formats docs-verified
- WMS · JPEG · PNG · TIFF
- Access docs-verified
- Licence terms and conditions apply; Non-Open Government Licence per catalogue record; no authentication listed
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- BNG habitat baseline context: percentage broad-habitat cover around a site boundary · FRA/drainage catchment land-cover composition to inform runoff assumptions (visual/manual reading) · Ecological constraints screening of broad habitat cover across a study area
- Audience llm-inferred
- ecologists · hydrologists · GIS analysts · planners
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Licence terms apply; citation required: 'Based upon LCM2015 © UKCEH 2017' · Delivered as a WMS with image formats (JPEG/PNG/TIFF); no raw data download is documented, so values must be read from the rendered layer · Land cover is a 2015 snapshot (published 2017-04-25); no update frequency stated · Area is Great Britain only; Northern Ireland is not covered
- 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)