Countryside Survey Environmental Zones
The Environmental Zones are aggregations of ITE Land Classes; these classes are derived from repeatable multivariate analysis of environmental data collected for each 1 km square in the country. Thus the classes, and hence the zones, are determined by combinations of environmental characteristics, not by just one or two. This means that the naming of classes (and zones) is not straightforward and cannot be achieved by reference to single parameters such as altitude. The approach taken with the ITE Land Classes is to give each a numeric identifier, rather than a text name, and to supplement these Land Class numbers with a brief description of the class. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0cfd454a-d035-416c-80dc-803c65470ea2
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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/0cfd454a-d035-416c-80dc-803c65470ea2
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Bio-geographical Regions
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2008-06-01
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60.861
49.864
1990-01-01
2007-12-31
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2013-10-16
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2007-05-01
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The Environmental Zones are aggregations of ITE Land Classes; these classes are derived from repeatable multivariate analysis of environmental data collected for each 1 km square in the country. Thus the classes, and hence the zones, are determined by combinations of environmental characteristics, not by just one or two. This means that the naming of classes (and zones) is not straightforward and cannot be achieved by reference to single parameters such as altitude. The approach taken with the ITE Land Classes is to give each a numeric identifier, rather than a text name, and to supplement these Land Class numbers with a brief description of the class.
publication
2010-12-08
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© UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
If you reuse this data, you should cite: UKCEH Countryside Survey (2013). Countryside Survey Environmental Zones. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0cfd454a-d035-416c-80dc-803c65470ea2
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Lancaster
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