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ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1990

The Land Classification 1990 is a classification of Great Britain into a set of 32 environmental strata, termed land classes, to be used as a basis for ecological survey, 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 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. The Land Classification 1990 provided stratification the Countryside Survey of Great Britain 1990. The dataset was later modified in 1998 and 2007 for successive Countryside Surveys, both versions of which are also available. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f

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Date (Publication)
1990-01-01
Identifier
CEH:EIDC: / 1316009566467
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
Other citation details
Bunce, R.G.H., Barr, C.J., Clarke, R.T., Howard, D.C., Lane, A.M.J. (1990). ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1990. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
Point of contact
  UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Wood, C.M.
Author
  Institute of Terrestrial Ecology - Bunce, R.G.H.
Author
  Institute of Terrestrial Ecology - Barr, C.J.
Author
  Institute of Terrestrial Ecology - Clarke, R.T.
Author
  Institute of Terrestrial Ecology - Howard, D.C.
Author
  Institute of Terrestrial Ecology - Lane, A.M.J.
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Publisher
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • Bio-geographical Regions
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Bunce, R.G.H., Barr, C.J., Clarke, R.T., Howard, D.C., Lane, A.M.J. (1990). ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1990. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
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Distance
1000  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
1990-12-31
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement
The 1990 version of the ITE Land Classification was developed from an earlier classification attempt in 1978, but used environmental data from all 240,000 km squares in GB to create the stratification. It contains 32 classes or strata, distributed across Great Britain. Each stratum consists of areas with similar environmental characteristics. Further information is provided in the supporting documents available in the Online Resources.
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Metadata language
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Character set
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Date stamp
2025-03-21T09:20:56
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
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