National Soil Inventory of Scotland

The National Soils Inventory for Scotland (NSIS1) dataset has been collected using sampling points arranged as a 10 km grid. A wide range of attributes are described, measured and analysed for each site. These range from contextual information describing the surrounding landscape (such as slope and vegetation), down to detailed chemical analyses of each horizon within the soil profile. There are 721 sites in total where soil occurs; where there is no soil at a particular 10 km sampling point, this point has not been included.

Alternate title: NSIS 10km

Date (): 1981-01-01

Date (): 1981-01-01

Identifier: NSIS_10km

Presentation form: mapDigital

The James Hutton Institute

Colin Campbell

(

Chief Executive

)

Craigiebuckler

Aberdeen

AB15 8QH

United Kingdom

The James Hutton Institute

David Donnelly

(

Research Scientist

)

Craigiebuckler

Aberdeen

AB15 8QH

United Kingdom

01224 395265

Maintenance and update frequency: irregular

Name: ESRI Shapefile

Version: 1.0

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()

Soil

Keywords

GB-SCT

Access constraints: otherRestrictions

Other constraints: no limitations on public access

Use constraints: The James Hutton Institute Open Data Licence

Use constraints

Spatial representation type: vector

Denominator: 10000

Metadata language: eng (en)

Topic category

Farming
Geoscientific information

Geographic identifier: Scotland

Reference system identifier: EPSG
/
OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)
/
7.9

Distribution format

ESRI shapefile
(
8 +
)

Distributor

The James Hutton Institute

David Donnelly

(

Research Scientist

)

Craigiebuckler

Aberdeen

AB15 8QH

United Kingdom

01224 395265

Fees: None

Ordering instructions: Download from http://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/soils/downloads/Hutton_NSIS10km_OpenData.zip

Turnaround: None

Name: ESRI Shapefile

Version: 1.0

OnLine resource: ESRI Shapefile Download (
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)

OnLine resource: https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/soils/downloads/Hutton_NSIS10km_OpenData.zip

Scope: dataset

Statement: More information on the procedures employed to obtain these data can be found in the National Soil Inventory of Scotland (1978-1988) protocols available at Scotland's Soils website.