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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.

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Identification info

Date (Publication)
2015-09-01
Date (Creation)
1974-08-01
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ebde9ef5-744e-4813-ac2f-864dfe14868b
Point of contact
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
Publisher
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
  • 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
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f1b3179e-b446-473d-a5fb-4166668da146
Coupling Type
loose Loose

Contains Operations

Operation Name
GetCapabilities
Distributed Computing Platforms
HTTPGet HTTPGet
Connect Point
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/ebde9ef5-744e-4813-ac2f-864dfe14868b?

Contains Operations

Operation Name
GetMap
Distributed Computing Platforms
HTTPGet HTTPGet
Connect Point
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/ebde9ef5-744e-4813-ac2f-864dfe14868b?

Contains Operations

Operation Name
GetFeatureInfo
Distributed Computing Platforms
HTTPGet HTTPGet
Connect Point
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/ebde9ef5-744e-4813-ac2f-864dfe14868b?
Operates On
  • https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f1b3179e-b446-473d-a5fb-4166668da146
Unique resource identifier
WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator
Distribution format
  • JPEG ()

  • PNG ()

  • TIFF ()

Distributor
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
OnLine resource
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 , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

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Keywords

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
Bio-geographical Regions

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