Scotland's wildness - absence of modern artifacts

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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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2020-07-08
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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
c29059d5-48ee-4392-92bd-92c9b517ed13
Extent
Latitude: 60.863404° to 54.543734°
Longitude: -8.421293° to -0.619341°
Spatial reference system
urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Dataset reference date
2012-02-02 (revision)
2014-01-31 (creation)
2014-06-23 (revision)
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Scottish Natural Heritage (pointOfContact, custodian, distributor)
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eng
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