dataset · United Kingdom
Government / regulator
Land Cover Map 2021 (10m classified pixels, GB)
This is a 10m pixel data set representing the land surface of Great Britain, classified into 21 UKCEH land cover classes, based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. It is a two-band raster in GeoTiff format. The first band gives the most likely land cover type; the second band gives the per-parcel probability of the land cover. A full description of this and all UKCEH LCM2021 products are available from the LCM2021 product documentation accompanying this dataset.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- land cover classification (21 UKCEH classes based on Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats) · most likely land cover type per pixel (band 1) · per-parcel land cover probability (band 2)
- Coverage docs-verified
- Great Britain · 2021-01-01 to 2021-12-31
- Resolution docs-verified
- 10 m pixels (spatial)
- Formats docs-verified
- GeoTIFF
- Access docs-verified
- Licence terms and conditions apply (ENTRY licence: Non-Open government licence); citation required; download, email order, or web map service (WMS) access; no API key listed
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Habitat baseline and broad-habitat mapping for BNG assessments across a site and its surroundings · Land cover context layer for ecological constraint and habitat fragmentation screening · Land cover inputs for catchment runoff or flood risk screening where surface cover classes are needed
- Audience llm-inferred
- ecologists · hydrologists · flood consultants · GIS analysts · planners
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Non-Open government licence: licence terms apply and citation is required; commercial use conditions not checked against the full licence · Single-year snapshot (2021); no update cadence stated · Accuracy is reported per class in the separate LCM2021 product documentation, not in this record · Provenance text says the classification covers the whole of the UK, while the description and title say Great Britain; Northern Ireland coverage is unclear · Classification is automated (Random Forest on satellite composites), so class accuracy varies by habitat
- 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)