Scotland's wildness - remoteness
Remote_raw_mask_int_isl_unlog_256
One of four component layer of the Scottish map of relative wildness. This layer shows remoteness from the public road, rail and ferry network. The dataset is on a scale of 1-256 indicating relative levels of remoteness. Consequently the data is best viewed at a national or regional scale. The methodology is adapted from the 2008 Wildness Study in the Cairngorms National Park. Remoteness is taken as the relative time taken to walk from the nearest public road, railway stationor ferry landing (being the point of mechanised access), taking account of distance, relative slope, ground cover and barrier features such as open water and very steep ground.
dataset
https://cagmap.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/dataset.jsp?code=WILDNESS-REM
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name: NatureScot - Natural Spaces download page
function: information
https://cagmap.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/download/WILDNESS-REM/tif
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name: GeoTIFF (EPSG:27700)
function: download
WILDNESS_REM
eng
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
environment
Countryside conservation
revision
2007-07-31
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60.863404
54.542839
revision
2006-07-11
GB-SCT
2010
2012
revision
2012-02-03
creation
2012-02-01
revision
2014-06-23
notPlanned
Data sources: OS MasterMap ITN for source road data: 2014 OS MasterMap Topography for river, track, footbridge and ford data: 2014 Land Cover Map 2007 for vegetation data: 2005-2007 NextMap DTM generalised to 25m for slope data: 2002 Ferry routes from OS raster mapping. The dataset is at 25m resolution. The methodology applies Naismiths's Rule incorporating Langmuir's corrections to calculate travel time. Barriers to travel are taken to be slopes greater than 45 degrees and open water. Further time-delays are added for bogs, wetlands, dwarf shrub heath, coastal habitats and forest. Mapped tracks and foot bridges allow for faster travel. Remoteness is calculated using the PathDistance function in ArcGIS to estimate walking speeds based on relative horizontal and vertical moving angles across the terrain surface together with appropriate cost or weight factors incurred by crossing different land cover types and the effects of barrier features The accuracy of the remoteness dataset is dependent upon the completeness, spatial accuracy and date of all the above sources. For more detailed information visit http://www.snh.gov.uk/protecting-scotlands-nature/looking-after-landscapes/landscape-policy-and-guidance/wild-land/mapping/
ESRI ArcINFO grid
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Available under an OS Open Data licence. You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Natural Heritage Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (year)
no limitation
SNH Landscape Group
Scottish Natural Heritage
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Scottish Natural Heritage
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Geographic Systems and Data Officer
Scottish Natural Heritage
Great Glen House, Leachkin Road
Inverness
IV3 8NW
United Kingdom
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2022-03-04