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Land Cover Map 2020 25m web map service
This is the web map service (WMS) for the 25m rasterised land parcels dataset of the UKCEH Land Cover Map of 2020 (LCM2020). It describes Great Britain and Northern Ireland land cover in 2020 using UKCEH Land Cover Classes, which are based on UK Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. The data was derived by rasterising properties of the LCM2020 Classified Land Parcels product. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- land cover classes (UKCEH LCM2020, based on UK Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats)
- Coverage docs-verified
- Great Britain and Northern Ireland · 2019-01-01 to 2019-12-31
- Resolution docs-verified
- 25 m (rasterised land parcels)
- Formats docs-verified
- JPEG · PNG · TIFF
- Access docs-verified
- Web map service (WMS) for use in a GIS application; licence terms apply (Non-Open Government Licence per entry metadata); no authentication listed
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Land cover baseline for habitat and BNG baseline mapping of a site or catchment · Catchment land cover context for FRA and drainage strategy inputs such as runoff assumptions · Land cover overlays for planning and environmental consultancy reports across GB and NI
- Audience llm-inferred
- ecologists · GIS analysts · hydrologists · drainage engineers · flood consultants · planners
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Non-Open Government Licence: licence terms apply and the copyright notice 'Based upon LCM2020 © UKCEH 2021' must be shown · Docs give a temporal extent of 2019 while the description refers to land cover in 2020 · Derived by rasterising the LCM2020 Classified Land Parcels product, so parcel-level detail is lost at 25 m · WMS delivers rendered map images for GIS display, not underlying raster data values · Coverage is limited to Great Britain and Northern Ireland
- 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)