Maps that Matter

ITE Land Cover Map of Britain

Date: 1993

Creators: Robin Fuller and co-workers

(Source: http://www.ceh.ac.uk/products/publications/documents/23global2.pdf)

• Pioneering digital processing of LANDSAT TM satellite imagery to produce a useful 25 class land cover map of Britain. Described in 1994 research article by Fuller et al, The Land Cover Map of Great Britain: An Automated Classification of Landsat Thematic Mapper Data in the journal Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing.
• The work has had significant impacts across discipline, offering one of first automated processes of land cover database compilation.