🆕Introduction
The land cover enhancements align the OS land cover classifications to European Nature Information System (EUNIS) and UK Biodiversity Action Plan (BAP) Broad Habitats classification scheme values and provide a percentage of each land cover classification. These enhancements apply to ‘natural’ topographic area features which exist across several OS NGD themes.
OS NGD Theme | Feature Type |
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OS NGD Land | Land |
OS NGD Structures | Structure |
OS NGD Transport | Rail |
OS NGD Transport | Road Track or Path |
OS NGD Water | Water |
The feature’s OS Land Cover Tier B attribute is mapped to EUNIS and UK BAP Broad Habitats classification scheme values where the topographic area feature is ‘natural’ i.e. the OS Land Cover Tier A attribute is one of ‘Excavated or Deposited’, ‘Open Vegetation’, ‘Mineral’, ‘Multiple’, ‘Trees’, ‘Under Construction’ or ‘Water’.
A percentage cover value is also assigned to the OS Land Cover Tier B attribute for those features above the Mean High Water (Springs) line. ‘Water’ features are not given a percentage cover value.
The land cover enhancements are supplied in a new cross-reference table. See the Habitat Coverage Reference table relating to the Land feature type .
The image below provides examples of these natural land cover features in OS NGD.
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