Muirburn Peatland Map
NatureScot has prepared a spatial dataset to be used in muirburn license applications. This dataset visualises the extent of land that may be classified 'peatland', as defined in the associated muirburn legislation.
This dataset is derived from outputs of the spatial disaggregation model of the legacy soil map (1:250,000 scale) created by the James Hutton Institute. It is complemented with data from the James Hutton Institute 1:25,000 partial soil coverage map (Soil25K V9d phase 7). (Used with the permission of The James Hutton Institute. All rights reserved).
The resulting map updates earlier work undertaken by NatureScot for the identification of the distribution of carbon rich soil and is provided as a raster datafile with a resolution of 50 m.
The map displays a single field attribute with three classes defined as:
- Area with no peat: labelled "Non-peatland"
- Area with a peat layer less than 50 cm thick: labelled "Uncertain"
- Area with a peat layer greater or equal to 50 cm thick: labelled "Peatland"
- Area of non soils labelled as "Non-soil"
The map is intended to be used as a baseline information in the NatureScot Online Licensing System and does not on its own identify areas that may be suitable for muirburn or area that will be defined as peatland under other classification systems.
Additional information:Gagkas Z. & Lilly A. Spatial disaggregation of a legacy soil map to support digital soil and land evaluation assessments in Scotland July 2024 Geoderma Regional 38(2):e00833 DOI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352009424000804
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- Date (Creation)
- 2025-02-14
- Date (Publication)
- 2025-02-17
- Date (Revision)
- 2025-02-14
- Presentation form
- Digital map
- Credit
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© SNH (NatureScot) and JHI. Available under the UK Non-Commercial Government Licence - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NatureScot
Dr Patricia Bruneau
Patricia.Bruneau@nature.sco Patricia.Bruneau@nature.scot
Custodian NatureScot
GIG Data Supply
data_supply@nature.scot supply@nature.sco data_supply@nature.scot
Point of contact
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Soil
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Available under the UK Non-Commercial Government Licence - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- no limitations to public access
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- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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Available under the UK Non-Commercial Government Licence - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/non-commercial-government-licence/version/2/
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 50 m
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Biota
- Environment
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- Reference system identifier
- EPSG / 27700 / 6.3(3.0.1)
- Distribution format
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile
1.0
ESRI File geodatabase
10.x
Geopackage
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GML
3
GeoJSON
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- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NatureScot
GIG Data Supply
data_supply@nature.scot supply@nature.sco data_supply@nature.scot
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- Dataset
- Statement
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This dataset is derived from outputs of the spatial disaggregation model of the legacy soil map (1:250,000 scale) created by the James Hutton Institute. It is complemented with data from the James Hutton Institute 1:25,000 partial soil coverage map (Soil25K V9d phase 7). (Used with the permission of The James Hutton Institute. All rights reserved).
The resulting map updates earlier work undertaken by NatureScot for the identification of the distribution of carbon rich soil and is provided as a raster datafile with a resolution of 50 m.
The map displays a single field attribute with three classes defined as:
Area with no peat: labelled ‘Non-peatland’ "PEAT_CLS" Value = 1
Area with a peat layer less than 50 cm thick: labelled ‘Uncertain’ "PEAT_CLS" Value = 2
Area with a peat layer greater or equal to 50 cm thick: labelled ‘Peatland’ "PEAT_CLS" Value = 3
Area of non soils labelled as "Non-soil"’ "PEAT_CLS" Value =9
The map is intended to be used as a baseline information in the NatureScot Online Licensing System and does not on its own identify areas that may be suitable for muirburn or area that will be defined as peatland under other classification systems.
Additional information:
Gagkas Z. & Lilly A. Spatial disaggregation of a legacy soil map to support digital soil and land evaluation assessments in Scotland July 2024 Geoderma Regional 38(2):e00833 DOI: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352009424000804.
The published version is a vectorised copy of the original raster output.
Metadata
- File identifier
- c3802e0c-8a59-41d7-992d-7f74a5b1f4e0 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-02-18T11:29:12.398Z
- Metadata standard name
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INSPIRE Metadata Implementing Rules: Technical Guidelines based on EN ISO 19115 and EN ISO 19119
- Metadata standard version
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V. 2.0.1
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NatureScot
GIG Data Supply
data_supply@nature.scot supply@nature.sco data_supply@nature.scot
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