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Bare peat in Scotland from Sentinel 2
The dataset shows larger expanses of bare peat across Scotland from Sentinel 2 imagery taken in summer 2018. Resolution of 10m x 10m Sentinel 2 pixels.
Produced by NatureScot Geographic Information Group Earth Observation team for the Peatland Action project to be used at a regional scale to identify those parts of Scotland with the most exposed peat.
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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
- 2020-04-13
- Identifier
- / BPEO
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Geology
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Habitats and biotopes
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Available under the Open Government Licence - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
- Limitations on Public Access
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- Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
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- 20 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
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- Environment
- Geoscientific information
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Data format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
GeoJSON
ESRI File geodatabase
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GML
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Data quality info
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- Statement
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Thresholding and machine learning approaches were trialled before the machine learning method was rolled out across Scotland.
A Sentinel 2 mosaic of Scotland comprised of images from late June 2018 was supplied by JNCC and used for this work (apart from a part of southern Shetland which was affected by cloud).
Using Sentinel 2 meant that the whole country could be processed in a relatively short space of time, although the country was split into 14 separate regions for classification and a final manual cleaning step was required for most areas.
With a 10 metre pixel resolution the output map is limited to larger areas of bare peat and more intricate degraded areas will be missed. It is worth emphasising it is a bare peat map not a degraded peat map so includes other areas such as exposed peat workings and dried out bog pools.
An analysis report or full methodology is available on request.
Python and R code developed for this project are available on github.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 92ebd99b-d4da-4dcc-b18d-839d782c921b XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2025-01-08T13:21:41.676Z
- Metadata standard name
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UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
Point of contact
- Individual name
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GIG Earth Observation Team
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NatureScot
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Earth Observation analyst
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duncan.blake@nature.sco duncan.blake@nature.scot
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