England and Wales

The images below are an example of using the CROME land cover classes to make a land cover persistence map. Trees are shown as shades of green, grasslands as purples, arable as browns and built up areas in grey. They … Continued

Corrine grassland are identified by isolating class 231 (pastures) and excluding all other classes including class 321 (natural grasslands). https://land.copernicus.eu/user-corner/technical-library/corine-land-cover-nomenclature-guidelines/html/index.html CORINE classes are converted to a broad set of general classes using the following look up table: DN From to … Continued

The following protected areas data are used in the analysis: Priority Habitats – good quality semi-improved grassland The priority habitats are described here. These codes are coordinated across England and Wales. They are used as the DN value when rasterising … Continued

This methodology is based on the one for identifying opportunity woodland in the Chew Valley and the Finding the Land to Double Tree Cover report by Friends of the Earth, 2019. Doubling woodland cover can be achieved in various ways … Continued

The four years of CROME data can be used to identify pixels that are persistently a given land cover class and those that change. Land cover of woodland areas change slowly whereas arable areas may change from year to year. … Continued

The Rural Payments Agency (RPA) retrospectively publishes crop maps of England each year. Four years of data are now available: 2016, 2017, 2018 and 2019. These maps are derived from Sentinel-1 (radar) and Sentinel-2 (optical) satellite imagery and use a … Continued