Land Classification of Shetland 1974
The Land Classification of Shetland is a classification of the Shetland Isles into a set of 16 environmental strata, termed land classes, to be used as a basis for ecological survey, originally developed by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) in 1974. The strata were created from the multivariate analysis of 150 environmental variables, including topographic data, 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. Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/f1b3179e-b446-473d-a5fb-4166668da146
INSPIRE
Identification
- File identifier
- f1b3179e-b446-473d-a5fb-4166668da146 XML
- Resource type
- dataset
Online resource
Resource identifier
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Spatial representation type
- vector
Encoding
- Format
- ESRI shapefile
Projection
Classification of data and services
- Topic category
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- Environment
Classification of data and services
Coupled resource
Coupled resource
Classification of data and services
Coupled resource
Coupled resource
Keywords
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Bio-geographical Regions
Geographic coverage
N
S
E
W
Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2015-07-27
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 1974-08-01
Quality and validity
- Lineage
- The Shetland Land Classification was created in 1974 at the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology, using methodologies described in the supporting information. The map was later digitised by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology.
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Restrictions on access and use
- Access constraints
- no limitations
- Access constraints
- © UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- Access constraints
- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Bunce, R.G.H., Bassett, P.A. (2015). Land Classification of Shetland 1974. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/f1b3179e-b446-473d-a5fb-4166668da146
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
Metadata information
Contact for the metadata
- Organisation name
- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- info@eidc.ac.uk
- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-27T16:21:26
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8