Scotland's wildness - absence of modern artifacts

• Published by: Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
• Last updated: 30 June 2014
• Topic: Environment
• Licence: Other Licence ; View licence information

Summary

One of four component layer of the Scottishmap of relativewildness. This layer shows the level of modern artefacts (detractors)that are visible. The dataset is on a scale of 1-256 indicating relative levels of visual influence. 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. NextMap Digital Surface Model (DSM) gives the height of the surface including the detractors from which a viewshed can be produced. Viewsheds up to 15 km were created for 3 feature layersat 50m resolution, 1) Buildings and other structures, 2) Railway lines, roads and tracks and 3) Pylons and ski lifts. A fourth viewshed up to 30 km was created for wind turbineswhose heights were added to a DTM. The resulting calculations were then re-scaled 1-256 to produce the map of lack of built human artefacts.

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Link to the data	Format	File added	Data preview
SNH Natural Spaces	HTML	30 June 2014	Go to site

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• Added to data.gov.uk: 2016-10-04
• Access contraints: 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: c29059d5-48ee-4392-92bd-92c9b517ed13
• Extent: Latitude: 60.863404° to 54.543734°
• Extent: Longitude: -8.421293° to -0.619341°
• Spatial reference system: urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
• Dataset reference date: 2012-02-02 (revision)
• Dataset reference date: 2014-01-31 (creation)
• Dataset reference date: 2014-06-23 (revision)
• Frequency of update: notPlanned
• Responsible party: Scottish Natural Heritage (pointOfContact, custodian, distributor)
• ISO 19139 resource type: dataset
• Metadata language: eng
• Source Metadata: XML ; HTML

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