Land Cover Map 2007 (LCM2007) is available in different formats, to suit the requirements of various users. (Please see our Accessing Land Cover Mapping and Land Cover Map 2007: Pricing pages for guidance on obtaining LCM 2007 data.)

Vector data

The most detailed product is vector data, where each polygon represents a parcel of land and has attributes describing land cover and metadata describing how this information was derived (see Table 1).

Scale: Minimum Mapable Unit for land cover parcels: 0.5ha.

Supply Format: ESRI® Shapefile format

Coverage: UK

Raster data

Five raster products simplify this information. A 25x25m raster gives the most likely Broad Habitat for each pixel. Four freely available 1x1km raster products summarise the 25x25m raster. Metadata for the LCM2007 raster formats are available in Table 3 and Table 4.

Scale: 25m and 1km pixel size  

Supply Format: GeoTiff

Coverage: UK

Further information

• Table 1. Description of the attributes of the LCM2007 vector dataset
• Table 2. Habitats, LCM2007 classes and Broad Habitat sub-classes for LCM2007
• Table 3. Metadata information for the LCM2007 25m raster dataset
• Table 4. Metadata information for the LCM2007 1km raster dataset