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Land Cover Map 2025 (LCM2025 - 1km summary rasters, GB and N. Ireland)

This 1 km summary pixel dataset 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 example

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What's in it

Data offered docs-verified
1 km percentage cover per target land cover class (21 classes) · 1 km dominant land cover class · 1 km percentage cover per aggregate class (10 classes)
Coverage docs-verified
Great Britain and Northern Ireland · 2025-01-01 to 2025-12-31
Resolution docs-verified
1000 m (1 km x 1 km pixels); OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Formats docs-verified
TIFF
Access docs-verified
Download via EIDC under licence terms and conditions (catalogue lists Non-Open Government Licence); dataset must be cited in any publication using it; whole dataset available as a zip package

Useful for

Use cases llm-inferred
Baseline land cover mix for a site or catchment in flood risk or drainage desk studies · Broad habitat context for preliminary BNG baseline work · Catchment land cover percentages as inputs to hydrological screening
Audience llm-inferred
flood consultants · hydrologists · drainage engineers · ecologists · GIS analysts · planners

Limitations

Constraints llm-inferred
1 km summaries are too coarse for site-scale assessment; the related 10 m and 25 m products (listed in the docs) are better suited · Single-year snapshot (2025), so it does not support multi-year land cover change analysis · Non-open licence restricts reuse and redistribution; check terms before sharing outputs · Accuracy statistics are held in the separate product documentation, not on this record
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)