Land Use and land cover
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Defining your environment
Cities Revealed Land Use and Land Cover databases provide you with an intelligent map layer identifying land use and land cover in your area of interest. Supplied as an attribute to your large scale mapping bases these highly detailed land use databases, for urban and rural areas, are created by extracting information from high-resolution aerial imagery and combined with field verification by land use experts. This capture method offers users the assurance of high quality, consistent information supported by local mapping to improve decision making in your area.
"Cities Revealed Land Use has enhanced our knowledge and understanding of the urban form within the renewal areas. The detail of the data allows us to map individual properties to target for improvement - a great cost effective measure!" Joe Bickerton, GIS Housing Intelligence and Mapping Officer, Metropolitan Borough of Wirral.
Features
- Land use database compatible with NLUD 3.3. (Land use and land cover categories compatible with NLUD 4.4 available on request).
- Derived from high resolution, aerial photography and field verification
- Compatible with Ordnance Survey mapping
- Raster and vector databases in industry standard formats
- Bespoke project options
