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Land Cover Map 2024 (1km summary rasters, GB and N. Ireland)

This 1 km summary pixel data set represents the land surface of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, classified using two classification schemas, target and aggregate classes. The target class schema comprise 21 UKCEH land cover classes based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. The aggregate class schema comprises 10 aggregate classes that are groupings of the 21 target classes. The aggregate classes group some of the more specialised target classes into more general classes. For exampl

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified
1 km percentage cover for each of 21 UKCEH target land cover classes (one band per class) · 1 km dominant land cover class (target classes) · 10 aggregate land cover classes (groupings of the 21 target classes, 1 km percentage and dominant products)
Coverage docs-verified
Great Britain and Northern Ireland · 2024-01-01 to 2024-12-31
Resolution docs-verified
1 km (1000 m) pixels
Formats docs-verified
TIFF
Access docs-verified
Free download as a zip package or via WMS, but licence terms and conditions apply (catalogue entry lists Non-Open Government Licence); no authentication stated

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred
Broad habitat baseline for biodiversity net gain assessments using 1 km percentage cover by class · Land cover context for flood risk or runoff desk studies (e.g. urban and rural cover proportions) · Screening-level habitat and land cover mapping for planning or ecological desk studies in GB and NI
Audience llm-inferred
ecologists · GIS analysts · planners · hydrologists · drainage engineers

Limitations

Constraints llm-inferred
1 km pixels are too coarse for site-scale work; the 10 m or 25 m products are needed for detail · Non-open licence: terms apply and the dataset must be cited in any publication that uses it · Raster (TIFF) only; no parcel-level attributes in this product · Accuracy figures are in the product documentation, not in the catalogue text
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)