ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1998
The Land Classification 1998 is a classification of Great Britain into a set of 40 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 and building upon a previous 1990 version. 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 1998 provided stratification for the Countryside Survey of Great Britain 2000 and was adjusted from the 1990 version as a consequence of needing to provide National Estimates for habitats for Scotland from Countryside Survey 2000 in addition to GB as a whole. The dataset was later modified in 2007 during Countryside Survey 2007. Both the 1990 version and the 2007 version are also available. Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/971671a6-98b4-4d80-b165-21dace7373b9
INSPIRE
Identification
- File identifier
- 971671a6-98b4-4d80-b165-21dace7373b9 XML
- Resource type
- dataset
Online resource
Resource identifier
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Spatial representation type
- vector
Encoding
- Format
- ESRI Shapefile format
- Format
- GML
Projection
Classification of data and services
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Geoscientific information
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
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W
Temporal reference
Temporal extent
Temporal extent
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 1998-12-31
Quality and validity
- Lineage
- The 1998 version of the ITE Land Classification was developed from an earlier classification from 1990 which used environmental data from all 240,000 km squares in GB to create the stratification. It contains 40 classes or strata, distributed across Great Britain. Each stratum consists of areas with similar environmental characteristics. The classification differs from the 1990 version by splitting classes in England and creating additional classes in Scotland. Further information is provided in the supporting documents available in the Online Resources.
- Distance
- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Conformity
Restrictions on access and use
- Access constraints
- Registration is required to access this data
- Access constraints
- Licence terms and conditions apply
- Access constraints
- 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. (1998). ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1998. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/971671a6-98b4-4d80-b165-21dace7373b9
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- 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
Responsible organization (s)
Contact for the resource
- Organisation name
- UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- Organisation name
- Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
- enquiries@ceh.ac.uk
- 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
Metadata information
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- Organisation name
- NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
- info@eidc.ac.uk
- Metadata Date
- 2024-02-27T16:17:47
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- utf8