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Scotland's wildness - composite
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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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2013-01-02
- Dataset Reference Date (Creation)
- 2014-01-31
- Identifier
- WILDNESS-CMP
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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IPSV v2.0
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Countryside conservation
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Geology
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Soil
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Elevation
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- Limitations on Public Access
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Available under the UK Open Government Licence - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/.
You must always use the following attribution statement to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright NatureScot Contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (year)
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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no limitation
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Distance
- 25 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Topic category
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- Environment
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Temporal reference
Temporal extent
- Begin
- 2010
- End
- 2013
Temporal extent
- Reference system identifier
- urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG::27700
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version GeoTIFF
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name OGC:WCS-1.1.0-http-get-capabilities
https://ogc.nature.scot/geoserver/landscape/wcs?request=GetCapabilities&service=WCS landscape:wildness_cmp
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/WILDNESS-CMP_SCOTLAND_TIFF_27700.zip GeoTIFF (EPSG:27700)
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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The four component layers were created from the following data sources:
NATURALNESS
Land Cover Map 2007 (CEH): 2005-2007
National Forest Inventory (FCS): 2014
Native Woodland Survey of Scotland (FCS): 2014
Loch Waterbodies and GB lakes (SEPA): 2014
RUGGEDNESS
NextMap DTM: 2002
REMOTENESS
OS MasterMap ITN for source road data: 2014
OS MasterMap Topography for river, track, footbridge and ford data: 2014
Land Cover Map 2007 for vegetation data: 2005-2007
NextMap DTM for slope data: 2002
LACK OF BUILT HUMAN ARTEFACTS
OS MasterMap for buildlings, railway lines, roads, tracks, pylons: 2014
SNH, RenewablesUK and OS Points of Interest for wind turbine locations: Dec 2013
The accuracy of the wildness dataset is dependent upon the completeness, spatial accuracy and date of all the above sources. For more detailed information visit https://www.nature.scot/professional-advice/landscape/landscape-policy-and-guidance/landscape-policy-wild-land
Metadata
- File identifier
- 977677fe-5688-4723-8a2f-d7baf2ad7324 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2023-10-25T10:31:38
- 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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Gabor Barton
- Organisation name
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NatureScot
- Position name
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Geographic Systems and Data Officer
- Voice
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01463725000
- Delivery point
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Great Glen House, Leachkin Road
- City
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Inverness
- Postal code
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IV3 8NW
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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data_supply@nature.scot supply@nature.sco data_supply@nature.scot
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- Point of contact
