dataset · United Kingdom
Government / regulator
Land Cover Maps
Land cover maps describe the physical material on the surface of the country. For example grassland, woodland, rivers & lakes or man-made structures such as roads and buildings UKCEH Land Cover Maps are parcel-based thematic classifications of satellite image data covering the United Kingdom. They are used in a wide range of applications by government departments & agencies, county councils, charities and environmental management bodies. The versions available are: - Land Cover Map 1990 (origina
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- surface land cover classes (e.g. grassland, woodland, rivers & lakes, man-made structures such as roads and buildings) · annual land cover map versions 1990 to 2025 · quarter-century land cover change dataset (1990-2015) · one-off high-resolution 3m land cover map (2023 data)
- Coverage docs-verified
- United Kingdom · 1990 to 2025
- Resolution docs-verified
- Parcel-based classifications; the one-off high-resolution product is 3m, and other products vary in level of detail and spatial resolution
- Access llm-inferred
- Non-Open Government Licence (per catalogue licence field); no auth listed
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Catchment impermeable-area and land cover inputs for FRA or drainage strategy assessments · Habitat baseline and context mapping for BNG using the 3m high-resolution map for England · Quarter-century land cover change analysis (1990-2015) for hydrological or ecological trend assessment
- Audience llm-inferred
- GIS analysts · flood consultants · drainage engineers · hydrologists · ecologists · planners
Limitations
- Constraints llm-inferred
- Describes land cover (physical surface material), not land use; land use such as grazing cannot be read from these maps · Original 1990 map covers Great Britain only; full UK coverage requires the revised 1990 map · The 3m high-resolution map is a one-off product using 2023 data only · Licence is Non-Open Government Licence, which may restrict 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)