Land Classification of Shetland 1974 View 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.
service
name: getCapabilities response
description: getCapabilities response for this WMS (xml)
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ebde9ef5-744e-4813-ac2f-864dfe14868b
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f1b3179e-b446-473d-a5fb-4166668da146
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG
4326
view
Bio-geographical Regions
publication
2008-06-01
creation
2006-01-01
stratification
strata
statistical sampling
-2.12
-0.69
60.86
59.84
publication
2015-09-01
creation
1974-08-01
JPEG
unknown
unknown
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
pointOfContact
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
publisher
Environmental Information Data Centre
custodian
Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
Lancaster
LA1 4AP
UK
pointOfContact
2018-10-17T12:55:28