dataset · United Kingdom
Government / regulator
Land Cover Map 2024 1km web map service (WMS)
This is a web map service (WMS) for the Land Cover Map 2024 at 1 kilometre resolution The target data comprise 21 UKCEH land cover classes based upon Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats. The aggregate data ,groups some of the more specialised target classes into more general classes and comprises 10 classes. For example, the five coastal classes in the target class are grouped into a single aggregate class.
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- Land cover classes (21 UKCEH target classes based on Biodiversity Action Plan broad habitats) · Aggregate land cover classes (10 classes)
- Coverage docs-verified
- Great Britain and Northern Ireland · 2024
- Resolution docs-verified
- 1 km (1000 m) spatial
- Formats docs-verified
- JPEG · PNG · TIFF · WMS
- Access docs-verified
- Licence terms apply (Non-Open government licence per catalogue entry); no authentication listed in entry metadata
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Habitat baseline context for BNG assessments using LCM2024 broad habitat classes · Land cover inputs for FRA catchment runoff and hydrological desk studies across GB and NI · Land cover overlay for planning and ecological constraints mapping in a GIS
- Audience llm-inferred
- ecologists · GIS analysts · hydrologists · flood consultants · planners
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- 1 km resolution is coarse for site-scale work · WMS provides map imagery for GIS display; underlying class data sits in the related summary raster record · Licence terms apply, requiring citation and the UKCEH copyright notice · Study area field is blank in the docs; coverage is inferred from keywords · Non-open licence may restrict some uses; check terms before commercial use
- 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)