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ITE land classification of Great Britain web map service

This service is a representation of the Land Classification of Great Britain. The Land Classification is a classification of sets of environmental strata (land classes) to be used as a basis for ecological survey. The classification was originally developed by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) in the late 1970s. The strata were created from the multivariate analysis of 75 environmental variables, including climatic data, topographic data, human geographical features and geology data. The Land Classification has provided a stratification for successive ecological surveys (the Countryside Survey of Great Britain), the results of which have characterised the classes in terms of botanical, zoological and landscape features. Additionally, the Land Classification can be used to stratify a wide range of ecological and biogeographical surveys to improve the efficiency of collection, analysis and presentation of information derived from a sample. There are three layers in this WMS (1) the 1990 version of the Land Classification which contains 32 classes - classifying all 240,000km squares in Great Britain (2) the 1998 version in which the Land Classification was adjusted to 40 classes as a consequence of the need to provide National Estimates for habitats in Scotland in addition to GB (3) the 2007 version in which the Land Classification was adjusted once again, to 45 classes, as a consequence of the need to provide Wales-only estimates in addition to those for Scotland and GB.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2007-05-01
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/235c42f5-6281-40f6-a74c-1b4eb29c78b1
Point of contact
  Centre of Ecology and Hydrology - Wood, C.M.
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Maintenance and update frequency
notPlanned Not planned
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Bio-geographical Regions
Access constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
Other constraints
unknown
Use constraints
otherRestrictions Other restrictions
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Licence terms and conditions apply
Service Type
view
Service Version
1.3.0
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Coupled Resource

Operation Name
GetMap
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f

Coupled Resource

Operation Name
GetMap
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/971671a6-98b4-4d80-b165-21dace7373b9

Coupled Resource

Operation Name
GetMap
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/5f0605e4-aa2a-48ab-b47c-bf5510823e8f
Coupling Type
tight Tight

Contains Operations

Operation Name
GetCapabilities
Distributed Computing Platforms
WebService WebService
Connect Point
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/235c42f5-6281-40f6-a74c-1b4eb29c78b1?

Contains Operations

Operation Name
GetMap
Distributed Computing Platforms
WebService WebService
Connect Point
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/235c42f5-6281-40f6-a74c-1b4eb29c78b1?

Contains Operations

Operation Name
GetFeatureInfo
Distributed Computing Platforms
WebService WebService
Connect Point
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/235c42f5-6281-40f6-a74c-1b4eb29c78b1?
Operates On
  • https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
  • https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/971671a6-98b4-4d80-b165-21dace7373b9
  • https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/5f0605e4-aa2a-48ab-b47c-bf5510823e8f
Unique resource identifier
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
Distribution format
  • TIFF ()

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Distributor
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Enquiries, C.
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , Lancashire , LA1 4AP , United Kingdom
OnLine resource
Web Map Service (WMS)

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Hierarchy level
service Service
Other
service

Domain consistency

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Pass
No

Conformance result

Date (Publication)
2011-03-21
Pass
No
Statement
The 2007 version of the ITE Land Classification was developed from earlier classifications from 1990 and 1998 which used environmental data from all 240,000 km squares in GB to create the stratifications. It contains 45 classes or strata, distributed across Great Britain. Each stratum consists of areas with similar environmental characteristics. The 2007 classification differs from the 1998 version (40 classes) by splitting classes in England and creating additional classes in Wales. The 1998 version differs from the 1990 version (32 classes) by splitting classes in England and adding additional classes in Scotland.
File identifier
235c42f5-6281-40f6-a74c-1b4eb29c78b1 XML
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
Hierarchy level
service Service
Hierarchy level name
service
Date stamp
2025-03-21T13:34:25
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

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Bio-geographical Regions

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