Multi-tier archetypes to characterise British landscapes, farmland and farming practices
This dataset consists of landscape and agricultural management archetypes (1 km resolution) at three levels, defined by different opportunities for adaptation. Tier 1 archetypes quantify broad differences in soil, land cover and population across Great Britain, which cannot be readily influenced by the actions of land managers; Tier 2 archetypes capture more nuanced variations within farmland-dominated landscapes of Great Britain, over which land managers may have some degree of influence. Tier 3 archetypes are built at national levels for England and Wales and focus on socioeconomic and agro-ecological characteristics within farmland-dominated landscapes, characterising differences in farm management. The unavailability of several input variables for agricultural management prevented the generation of Tier 3 archetypes for Scotland. The archetypes were derived by data-driven machine learning. The three tiers of archetypes were analysed separately and not as a nested structure (i.e. a single Tier 3 archetype can occur in more than one Tier 2 archetype), predominantly to ensure that archetype definitions were easily interpreted across tiers. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/3b44375a-cbe6-468c-9395-41471054d0f3
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- Date (Publication)
- 2022-07-11
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/3b44375a-cbe6-468c-9395-41471054d0f3
- Other citation details
- Goodwin, C.E.D., Bütikofer, L., Hatfield, J.H., Richter, G.M., Redhead, J.W. (2022). Multi-tier archetypes to characterise British landscapes, farmland and farming practices. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/3b44375a-cbe6-468c-9395-41471054d0f3
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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Goodwin, C.
https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0093-9838
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Agricultural and Aquaculture Facilities
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- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Goodwin, C.E.D., Bütikofer, L., Hatfield, J.H., Richter, G.M., Redhead, J.W. (2022). Multi-tier archetypes to characterise British landscapes, farmland and farming practices. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/3b44375a-cbe6-468c-9395-41471054d0f3
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- grid Grid
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- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
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- utf8 UTF8
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- Farming
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- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- Archetype data were generated from various spatial socioeconomic and bio-physical layers. These data were analysed using Self-Organising Maps (SOMs), which reduce the dimensions and cluster the data into similar groupings. This creates a pre-set number of Land System Archetypes, each associated with a group of representative 1km cells, at each tier. SOMs were run iteratively 1000 times to gain a measure of the consistency of the production of each set of Archetypes. Data are provided with a measure (Euclidean distance) of the accuracy of the assignment of archetypes for each 1km cell. Sensitivity analyses were conducted to test the inclusion of different data.
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- 3b44375a-cbe6-468c-9395-41471054d0f3 XML
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- EnglishEnglish
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- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
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- dataset Dataset
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- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-05T08:31:10
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
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