Land Classification of Shetland 1974 web map service

• Published by: Environmental Information Data Centre
• Last updated: 16 February 2023
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Summary

This is a web map service for the Land Classification of the Shetland Isles. The classification was originally developed by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) in 1974 as a framework for ecological sampling and is a stratification of the land into a set of sixteen environmental strata at a 1km resolution. Each strata is an area sharing similar environmental characteristics (such as altitude, geology, distance from sea). The web map service contains two layers: 1) EnvironmentalStrata - all sixteen land classes; 2) OverviewOfStrata - land classes arranged into four related groups. The strata may briefly be described thus: Classes 1-4 - Coastal strata with few rivers running into the sea, gentle terrain; Classes 5-8 - Coastal strata with more sea and steeper slopes; Classes 9-12 - High altitude inland group, with few small water bodies; Classes 13-16 - Lower altitude zones with much peat and freshwater lochans. The four strata within each of these groups contain subtly different variations.

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getCapabilities response	WMS	16 February 2023	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2022-08-24T08:04:48
• Access contraints: Not specified
• Harvest GUID: ebde9ef5-744e-4813-ac2f-864dfe14868b
• Extent: Latitude: 60.86° to 59.84°
• Extent: Longitude: -2.12° to -0.69°
• Dataset reference date: 2015-09-01 (publication)
• Dataset reference date: 1974-08-01 (creation)
• Responsible party: Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (pointOfContact); NERC Environmental Information Data Centre (publisher); NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: service
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML
• Source Metadata: HTML

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