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s, as well as the model algorithm itself, finding the distributed random forest model best performing with our data over other trialled algorithms, e.g. Support Vector Machine, Generalised Linear Model, Generalised Additive Model, Quantile Regression Forests. We have trialled some deep learning approaches as part of this development however there is a trade off with computational expensive and infrastructure to support this, particularly given our mapping on a national extent with large Earth Observation (EO) d...

Users can contact the Living England team at earth.observation.naturalengland.org.uk if they have a query about the map, including if they believe there is an issue or error. The maps are regularly updated to ensure continued accuracy, and this process includes quality assurance and review.

Listed in the Living England 2022-23 Technical User Guide. Sentinel-2 multispectral imagery is high-resolution, wide-swath data collected by the Sentinel-2 mission's Multispectral Instrument (MSI). Sentinel-1 backscatter imagery is a measurement of how much microwave radiation is reflected back to a sensor from the surface of the ground (and can measure land use change and land deformation). The Environment Agency Integrated Height Model (IHM) models floodplains, river channels, and pipe networks. Other data rel...