ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
English
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)
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Environmental Information Data Centre
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UK GEMINI
2.3
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1990
1990-01-01
publication
1316009566467
CEH:EIDC:
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
doi:
Bunce, R.G.H., Barr, C.J., Clarke, R.T., Howard, D.C., Lane, A.M.J. (1990). ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1990. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
The Land Classification 1990 is a classification of Great Britain into a set of 32 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. 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 1990 provided stratification the Countryside Survey of Great Britain 1990. The dataset was later modified in 1998 and 2007 for successive Countryside Surveys, both versions of which are also available. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
Wood, C.M.
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
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Bunce, R.G.H.
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
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author
Barr, C.J.
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
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author
Clarke, R.T.
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
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Howard, D.C.
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
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author
Lane, A.M.J.
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
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Environmental Information Data Centre
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NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
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Bio-geographical Regions
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
2008-06-01
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Mapping
ecology
landscape ecology
Great Britain
land classification
stratification
Countryside Survey
Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
ITE
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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. (1990). ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1990. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
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1990-12-31
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
2010-12-08
The 1990 version of the ITE Land Classification was developed from an earlier classification attempt in 1978, but used environmental data from all 240,000 km squares in GB to create the stratification. It contains 32 classes or strata, distributed across Great Britain. Each stratum consists of areas with similar environmental characteristics. Further information is provided in the supporting documents available in the Online Resources.