Built on high-resolution imagery
Built upon OS’s 25cm aerial imagery for high-resolution mapping of natural habitats, providing a comprehensive indication of vegetation cover, land use, and habitat type.
OS Enhanced Land Cover (Beta)
What OS Enhanced Land Cover (Beta) provides you with
Access integrated data
Integration of multiple authoritative OS and third-party datasets in one detailed view, saving time, effort and money early in the baselining workflow.
Habitat classifications
OS Enhanced Land Cover includes the UKHab classification system, as referenced in Biodiversity Net Gain legislation, helping to make informed site selection decisions earlier in workflows.
Use cases
- Conduct biodiversity net gain (BNG) assessments – both for early workflow desktop analysis and for use by ecologists in the field.
- Developers, landowners, and ecologists can better understand the composition of their land cover at scale.
- Assist in the planning of nature-based restoration projects, such as re-wilding, flood risk management and green corridors, with a detailed understanding of land cover.
Related products
OS Land Features
Explore detailed land cover data, and visualise the land cover make-up of Great Britain, including both manmade features and natural land features.
OS Land Use Features
Visualise and analyse geometric representations of different types of land use, land use sites, and site access data.
OS MasterMap Imagery Layer
Digital colour-balanced and corrected for geometric distortions (orthorectified) aerial photography for Great Britain.
