Data Description (What?)
Reference date(s)
2023-07-01
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2023-07-25
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Abstract
Habitat and land cover map created using AI to classify satellite data to EUNIS by Space Intelligence in partnership with NatureScot. This dataset contains three layers:A EUNIS level 1 classification of Scotland's land cover for the year 2022 which uses 5 different classes;A EUNIS level 2 classification of Scotland's land cover for the year 2022 which uses 28 different classes;A change map, which provides predicted land cover changes that occurred between 2020 and 2022.The dataset is part of a time series of 20m resolution raster layers, the others being from 2019 and 2020 and the change layer of predicted land cover changes that occurred between 2019 and 2020.
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Keywords, categories, classification
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Bio-geographical regions, Habitats and biotopes, Land cover, Land use
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Dataset background, process history
Lineage, dataset history
Training data were collected through using a combination of the following sources:
• Habitat Map of Scotland (ground polygons)
• 2022 National Forest Inventory
• Ordnance Survey
• High resolution imagery
In all cases the ground data were not used naively: a careful combination of at least two data sources were used 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 were Optical Sentinel 2 (S2), Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) Sentinel-1, descending and ascending ALOS-PALSAR 2. A complex set of machine learning algorithms were used 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.
Further information about the data lineage is provided in the accompanying report:
2022 Scotland Land Cover Revised Map - Report (https://naturescot.nexus.objective.co.uk/documents/A4119483/details)
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Available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Maps and data created by Space Intelligence with input and support from NatureScot , © SNH |
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Available under the Open Government Licence v3.0 http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Maps and data created by Space Intelligence with input and support from NatureScot , © SNH |
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Geographic properties (Where?)
Spatial Reference System
Name: 27700
Code space: EPSG
Version: 6.3(3.0.1)
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60.866457 |
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-9.230544 |
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-0.704608 |
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54.513054 |
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Distribution Information
Online resource
GeoTIFF (EPSG:27700)
https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/HLCM-2022-L1_SCOTLAND_TIFF_27700.zip
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Includes styling for ArcGIS and QGIS
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