Carbon and Peatland 2016 map - Wind Farm Spatial Framework

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 31 October 2017
• Topic: Environment
• Licence: None

Summary

This is a simplified version of the Carbon and Peatland 2016 map for use in the development of windfarm spatial framework. It only shows the extent of areas within Class 1 and 2 of the classification. To access the unabridged version, select the Carbon and Peatland 2016 dataset.Scottish Natural Heritage (SNH) has prepared a consolidated spatial dataset of "carbon rich soil, deep peat and priority peatland habitats" in Scotland derived from existing soil and vegetation data (James Hutton Institute 1:25,000 and 1:250,000 scale soil data and Land Cover Scotland 1988). The resulting Carbon and Peatland map updated earlier work undertaken by SNH for the identification of natural heritage features of national importance available from Scotland's soil website. The map is a high-level planning tool to promote consistency and clarity in the preparation of spatial frameworks by planning authorities. The map is a predictive tool which provides an indication of the likely presence of peat on each individually-mapped area, at a coarse scale. The types of peat shown on the map are carbon-rich soils, deep peat and priority peatland habitat.

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
SNH Natural Spaces download page	N/A	31 October 2017	Not available

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2017-10-30
• Access contraints: Available under the Open Government Licence Acknowledgment: Contains SNH information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
• Harvest GUID: 04ae7a7d-23e7-46e7-a4ba-da01c6823a97
• Extent: Latitude: 60.87° to 54.63°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.8° to -0.71°
• Spatial reference system: ETRS89 (EPSG:4258)
• Dataset reference date: 2016-06-01 (publication)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Scottish Natrual Heritage (custodian)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML ; HTML

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