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 2020. It is part of a series of 3 layers (raster datasetsat~20m resolution). The other layer provides the land cover classificationfor the year 2019and a third layer provides thelandcoverchanges that occured between 2019 and 2020.
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Contact information (Who?)
Metadata contact(s)
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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/ |
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Limitations of use: |
Maps and data created by Space Intelligence with input and support from NatureScot , © SNH |
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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)
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60.866277 |
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-9.230504 |
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-0.704615 |
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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
GeoTIFF (EPSG:27700)
https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/HLCM-2020_SCOTLAND_TIFF_27700.zip
download
Data is accessible as geotiff with associated symbology for ESRI and QGIS software
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