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Scotland's wildness - absence of modern artifacts
One of four component layer of the Scottish map of relative wildness. 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 layers at 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 turbines whose 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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Identification info
- Metadata Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Dataset Reference Date (Revision)
- 2014-06-23
- Identifier
- WILDNESS_ART
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
- Resource format
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Name Version GeoTIFF
1.0
- Keywords
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Countryside conservation
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Elevation
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Geology
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Soil
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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
Temporal extent
- Code
- EPSG:27700
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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Name Version
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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Protocol Resource Locator Name WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
https://gis-downloads.nature.scot/WILDNESS-ART_SCOTLAND_TIFF_27700.zip GeoTIFF (EPSG:27700)
Data quality info
- Quality Scope
- Dataset
- Statement
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Data sources:
OS MasterMap for buildlings, railway lines, roads, tracks, pylons: 2014
SNH, RenewablesUK and OS Points of Interest for wind turbine locations: Dec 2013
The 4 layers were processed in the voxel viewshed tool developed by Leeds University, based on the resampled NextMap DSM. All 4 layers were processed at 50m resolution. Normalised unlogged values from the viewhsed tool were used. The four layers were added together and then the values logged. The accuracy of the dataset is dependent upon the completeness, spatial accuracy and date of all the above sources. http://www.nature.scot/protecting-scotlands-nature/looking-after-landscapes/landscape-policy-and-guidance/wild-land/mapping/
Metadata
- File identifier
- c29059d5-48ee-4392-92bd-92c9b517ed13 XML
- Metadata Language
- English
- Resource type
- Dataset
- Metadata Date
- 2025-01-09T12:54:02.014Z
- 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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Duncan Blake
- Organisation name
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NatureScot
- Position name
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GI Analyst
- Voice
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01224 266502
- Delivery point
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Inverdee House, Baxter Street, Torry
- City
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Aberdeen
- Postal code
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AB11 9QA
- Country
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United Kingdom
- Electronic mail address
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duncan.blake@nature.sco duncan.blake@nature.scot
- Role
- Point of contact
