Scotland's wildness - composite
The purpose of this data is to indicate the relative wildness across Scotland. The dataset is on a scale of 1-256 indicating relative levels of wildness. 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. Four principal attributes identified in SNH's policy statement(Wildness in Scotlands Countryside, 2002), namely perceived naturalness of land cover, ruggedness, remoteness and the lack of built modern artefacts are mapped using GIS based techniques and a combination of readily available datasets. An index of wild land quality is then derived by combining the individual attribute layers. The attribute layers are given equal weighting.
dataset
https://gateway.snh.gov.uk/natural-spaces/dataset.jsp?dsid=WILDNESS-CMP
name: SNH Natural Spaces
function: download
WILDNESS-CMP
eng
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
environment
Countryside conservation
revision
2007-07-31
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60.863629
54.508673
revision
2006-07-25
GB-SCT
2010
2013
revision
2013-01-02
creation
2014-01-31
notPlanned
The four component layers were created from the following data sources: NATURALNESS Land Cover Map 2007 (CEH): 2005-2007 National Forest Inventory (FCS): 2014 Native Woodland Survey of Scotland (FCS): 2014 Loch Waterbodies and GB lakes (SEPA): 2014 RUGGEDNESS NextMap DTM: 2002 REMOTENESS 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 for slope data: 2002 LACK OF BUILT HUMAN ARTEFACTS OS MasterMap for buildlings, railway lines, roads, tracks, pylons: 2014 SNH, RenewablesUK and OS Points of Interest for wind turbine locations: Dec 2013 The accuracy of the wildness 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)
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