Identification

Title

Predicted outcomes from land use change scenarios in upland Wales catchments

Abstract

A spatial approach was developed to interpret qualitatively expressed scenarios, and predict the probability and amount of change for 10 land-cover types across 127 sub-catchments in upland Wales. Existing data, which have a temporal coverage of 1998-2007, were used for the underpinning mapping, and fed into the tabular land cover change summary data. For each scenario, the maximum and minimum land-cover change was projected using rules based on current land cover, agricultural land quality, ownership type, and nature conservation status. For each combination, total land-cover change summaries have been created, which indicate how land cover within the 127 sub-catchments may respond to change in the future. This work was part of the Diversity in Upland River Ecosystem Service Sustainability (DURESS) project, NERC grant NE/J014826/1. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/0dd30cc6-d4fb-42f5-a5a4-954cf01a230b

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/0dd30cc6-d4fb-42f5-a5a4-954cf01a230b

description: Download a copy of this data

function: download

https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/0dd30cc6-d4fb-42f5-a5a4-954cf01a230b.zip

description: Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/0dd30cc6-d4fb-42f5-a5a4-954cf01a230b

codeSpace

doi:

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

economy

health

inlandWaters

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Land Cover

originating controlled vocabulary

title

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-5.473

East bounding longitude

-2.654

North bounding latitude

53.434

South bounding latitude

51.375

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2014-07-01

End position

2015-12-01

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2017-02-28

Frequency of update

unknown

Quality and validity

Lineage

Existing spatial datasets were collected and used to predict the maximum and minimum outcomes for land use change scenarios. These data include the 25 x 25m Land Cover Map 2007 raster, which was aggregated to 13 classes (see supporting documentation). The Agricultural Land Classification (ALC), designated boundary, and ownership data were also used. Using GIS, sub-catchment boundaries were used to clip the land cover, agricultural land quality, ownership, and designated sites data. Following this, two separate polygon layers were built to represent maximum (using land-cover and ALC data), and minimum (land-cover, ALC, plus additional datasets representing protected areas and areas of ownership) change. These were created by using the 'union' process in ArcGIS. A unique identifier was created in the polygon layers, and in each rule-base. The purpose of this unique identifier was to help match all attributes in the data and rule-base and join them together. In ArcGIS, calculations such as land cover area, land cover area percent, and net change (before and after scenario was applied) were made. Due to multiple land cover, ALC, designation and protected area permutations, a final summary was needed to illustrate by how much land cover changed under the different scenarios. Therefore, in Excel, each land cover in each sub-catchment was summarised and a total area before and after scenario was calculated. These values were exported into Excel spreadsheets and then into comma separated values for ingestion into the EIDC.

Conformity

Conformity report

specification

title

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

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2010-12-08

degree

explanation

Data format

name of format

Comma-separated values (CSV)

version of format

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

If you reuse this data, you should cite: Small, N., Prosser, H., Durance, I. (2017). Predicted outcomes from land use change scenarios in upland Wales catchments. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/0dd30cc6-d4fb-42f5-a5a4-954cf01a230b