Land Classification of Shetland 1974 web map service
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.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2015-09-01
- Date (Creation)
- 1974-08-01
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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- Bio-geographical Regions
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- unknown
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Terms and conditions apply
- Service Type
- view
- Service Version
- 1.3.0
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Coupled Resource
- Operation Name
- GetMap
- Coupling Type
- loose Loose
Contains Operations
- Operation Name
- GetCapabilities
- Distributed Computing Platforms
- HTTPGet HTTPGet
Contains Operations
- Operation Name
- GetMap
- Distributed Computing Platforms
- HTTPGet HTTPGet
Contains Operations
- Operation Name
- GetFeatureInfo
- Distributed Computing Platforms
- HTTPGet HTTPGet
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator
- Distribution format
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JPEG
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- OnLine resource
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getCapabilities response
getCapabilities response for this WMS (xml)
- 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
- File identifier
- ebde9ef5-744e-4813-ac2f-864dfe14868b 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
- 2025-11-03T09:37:05
- 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
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Lancaster
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LA1 4AP
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UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
Overviews
Spatial extent
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Provided by
Associated resources
Not available
NERC Data Catalogue Service