Identification

Title

Peatland ACTION - Peat depth

Abstract

Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has prepared a consolidated spatial dataset of peat depth measurement collected across Scotland. The information was collected during peat depth surveys conducted as part of various assessments carried out on sites that formed part of the Peatland ACTION project (2012-2019). Surveys were conducted using the Peat depth survey guidance issued by Peatland Action program. The current version of the dataset provides all available data on 26 July 2019. Additional datasets will be added to the database when they become available. The surveys were conducted at a high spatial resolution (100 m grid) over a wide geographical spread of the sites across Scotland. The current version includes data collected from 139 projects with 24,970 individual survey points. The average peat depth across all 139 projects is 2.12 m with a maximum depth of 18.8 m.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://gateway.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/dataset.jsp?dsid=PEATACT-DEPTH

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Natural Spaces - Peatland ACTION - Peat depth

function: download

Unique resource identifier

code

82e2ad6e-b97e-4f4c-80b7-679e15c55d25_resource

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

27700

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Scotland

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2015-07-17

Keyword set

keyword value

Soil

Geology

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-28.171997

East bounding longitude

15.227695

North bounding latitude

65.171944

South bounding latitude

45.501382

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

revision

effective date

2019-07-26

date type

publication

effective date

2017-03-21

date type

creation

effective date

2017-01-31

Frequency of update

Quality and validity

Lineage

Surveys were conducted using the Peat depth survey guidance issued by Peatland Action program. The current version of the dataset provides all available data on 26 July 2019. Additional datasets will be added to the database when they become available. The surveys were conducted at a high spatial resolution (100 m grid) over a wide geographical spread of the sites across Scotland. The current version includes data collected from 139 projects with 24,970 individual survey points.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

ESRI Shapefile

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

no limitations

Limitations on public access

Available under the Open Government Licence Acknowledgment: Contains SNH information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Policy and Advice Officer - Soil Science

organisation name

Scottish Natural Heritage

email address

patricia.bruneau@snh.gov.uk

responsible party role

custodian

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Geographic Information Group

organisation name

Scottish Natural Heritage

full postal address

Great Glen House

Inverness

IV3 8NW

Country of the physical address

telephone number

01463 725000

facsimile number

email address

data_supply@snh.gov.uk

web address

http://gateway.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/index.jsp

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: Natural Spaces

description: Natural Spaces allows you to download a wide range of the spatial data held by SNH. You can browse through the data available, and use your SNH account to access the data in several GIS formats. You can also create a direct connection to our OGC Web Map Services from within your desktop GIS application. More details about this option is available on the Direct connection page.

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2019-07-29

Metadata language