Scotland's wildness - composite

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Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Last updated:
11 July 2014
Topic:
Environment
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Summary

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.

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Added to data.gov.uk
2016-10-04
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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)
Harvest GUID
977677fe-5688-4723-8a2f-d7baf2ad7324
Extent
Latitude: 60.863629° to 54.508673°
Longitude: -9.286068° to -0.61912°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Dataset reference date
2013-01-02 (revision)
2014-01-31 (creation)
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Responsible party
Scottish Natural Heritage (custodian, originator, pointOfContact, distributor)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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