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Data Description (What?)

Reference date(s)

2021-06-04 - publication

Abstract

Habitat and land cover maps created using AI to classify satellite data to EUNIS level 2 by Space Intelligence in partnership with NatureScot. This work was a response to the Can Do Innovation fund challenge AI for Good -How can we use Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques to tackle the climate emergency? This dataset contains the EUNIS classification level 2 of Scotland's land cover for the year 2019. It is part of a series of 3 layers (raster datasetsat~20m resolution). The other layer provides the land cover classificationfor the year 2020 and a third layer provides thelandcoverchanges occured between 2019 and 2020.

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Contact information (Who?)

Role: custodian
  • Individual's name Philippa Vigano
  • Contact's position Programme Manager: Innovative Technologies (IniT) Programme
  • Organization NatureScot

  • E-mail address philippa.vigano@nature.scot

    Role: pointOfContact
  • Individual's name Ed Mitchard
  • Organization Space Intelligence

  • Telephone 07850 861130
    E-mail address ed@space-intelligence.com

    Metadata contact(s)

    Role: pointOfContact
  • Individual's name Geographic Information Group
  • Contact's position Data Supply
  • Organization NatureScot

  • Telephone 01463 725076
    E-mail address data_supply@nature.scot
    Delivery point Great Glen House
    City Inverness
    Postal code IV3 8NW

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    Keywords, categories, classification

    Topic category

    Place keywords

  • GB-SCT
  • Theme keywords

  • Habitats and biotopes
  • Theme keywords

  • habitat
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    Dataset background, process history

    Lineage, dataset history

    20 m resolution geotifs derived from Ground Data The ground data were collected through using a combination of the following sources, using a broad search that stretched beyond our Areas of Interest: ● Habitat Map of Scotland (ground polygons)1 ● 2018 National Forest Inventory2 ● Ordnance Survey3 ● Global Forest Change v1.64 ● High resolution imagery5 In all cases the ground data were not used naively: we used a careful combination of at least two data sources to create each polygon, and checking against recent high resolution imagery to ensure each polygon was ‘pure’ (i.e. included only one class) and up to date (for example, if it was a forest polygon, the trees had not been cleared since the data were collected). Satellite remote sensing datasets used for mapping Optical Sentinel 2 (S2) (30/03/2019-10/11/2019) Radar Sentinel-1, descending and ascending (01/01/2019-31/12/2019) ALOS-PALSAR 2, 2018 annual composite Topography Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM, 2000) Process Extensive training datasets, and derived features from remote sensing data, to implement a complex set of tuned machine learning algorithms to produce a Prediction Model, and ultimately a prediction of a class for each pixel. Through the project duration the sophistication of the models used increased, increasing accuracy and efficiency. For commercial reasons the details of the final algorithms used will not be revealed here. EUNIS attribute information: Classification code O is not an official category from EUNIS classification. In the report "Bare ground O" is listed as including felled woodland, sediments, sand dune and unvegetated rock cliffs, ledges, shores and islets. Report: InIT - Space Intelligence AI for Good Phase 2 - Final Mapping Report - 26 Mar 2021_compressed (A3423939)

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    Maintenance and legal restrictions

    Maintenance

    Update frequency: notPlanned

    Access and usage constraints

    Usage constraints
    Limitations of use: Available under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

    Legal Constraints
    Use constraints:
    Limitations of use: Maps and data created by Space Intelligence with input and support from NatureScot , © SNH

    Legal Constraints
    Access constraints: license
    Use constraints:
    Limitations of use: Maps and data created by Space Intelligence with input and support from NatureScot , © SNH
    Attribution, acknowledgements: Available under the Open Government Licence http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/

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    Geographic properties (Where?)

    Spatial Reference System

    Name: 27700

    Code space: EPSG

    Version: 6.3(3.0.1)

    Extent

    Bounding coordinates (WGS84, lat/lon)

    60.866277
    -9.230504 -0.704615
    54.513054

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    Distribution Information

    Available formats

  • SDE Raster Dataset (version 10.7.1)
  • Transfer options

  • Transfer size: 75
  • Units of distribution (e.g., tiles): MB

  • Online resource

  • Name of resource: GeoTIFF (EPSG:27700)
  • Online location: https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/HLCM-2019_SCOTLAND_TIFF_27700.zip
  • Connection protocol: TCP
  • Function performed: download
  • Description: Data is accessible as geotiff with associated symbology for ESRI and QGIS software


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