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dataset
Gabor Barton
Scottish Natural Heritage
Geographic Systems and Data Officer
01463725117
Great Glen House, Leachkin Road
Inverness
IV3 8NW
United Kingdom
data_supply@snh.gov.uk
pointOfContact
2022-03-04
UK GEMINI
2.2
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Scotland's wildness - remoteness
Remote_raw_mask_int_isl_unlog_256
2012-02-03
revision
2012-02-01
creation
2014-06-23
revision
WILDNESS_REM
mapDigital
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.
Simon Brooks
Scottish Natural Heritage
SNH Landscape Group
014630725000
Great Glen House, Leachkin Road
Inverness
IV3 8NW
United Kingdom
simon.brooks@snh.gov.uk
pointOfContact
Gabor Barton
Scottish Natural Heritage
Data Support Officer
01463 725000
Great Glen House
Leachkin Road, Inverness
IV3 8NW
data.supply@snh.gov.uk
distributor
notPlanned
ESRI GRID
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Countryside conservation
IPSV v2.0
2007-07-31
revision
license
otherRestrictions
license
otherRestrictions
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
grid
25
eng
environment
ISO 3166
2006-07-11
revision
GB-SCT
-8.421293
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54.542839
60.863404
2010
2012
ESRI ArcINFO grid
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GeoTIFF
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Gabor Barton
Scottish Natural Heritage
Data Support Officer
01463 725000
Great Glen House
Leachkin Road, Inverness
IV3 8NW
data.supply@snh.gov.uk
distributor
ESRI GRID
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https://cagmap.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/dataset.jsp?code=WILDNESS-REM
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
NatureScot - Natural Spaces download page
information
https://cagmap.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/download/WILDNESS-REM/tif
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
GeoTIFF (EPSG:27700)
dataset
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/