Land Cover Map 2000

Land Cover Map 2000 (LCM2000) is used by Government Departments and agencies in England, Scotland and Wales; county councils; charities and commissions and also environmental management bodies.

LCM2000 is used for a wide range of applications including environmental character assessments, environmental protection, transport planning, animal disease distribution, bird and habitat relationships and forestry research.

Like the earlier Land Cover Map of GB (1990), LCM2000 is derived from a computer classification of satellite scenes, obtained mainly from Landsat satellites. LCM2000 covers Northern Ireland, so will produce an all-UK dataset for the first time. It also incorporates information derived from other datasets

LCM2000 is a vector database, for use within a GIS system. It is registered to the British National Grid (also known as Ordnance Survey grid references). It shows areas of land as 'parcels' or polygons. Each parcel has attached to it a list of values or attributes, covering such topics as land cover class, parcel area, length of boundary, processing history, knowledge-based correction and identification of the original satellite scene.

See also CORINE Land Cover Map

Data licensing

Data is available under licence as:

Data order

More information

Data Licensing Enquiries, CEH Wallingford, Maclean Building, Crowmarsh Gifford, Wallingford, Oxfordshire, OX10 8BB, United Kingdom; telephone +44 (0)1491 692549

E-mail: datalicensing@ceh.ac.uk.