Map of topsoil compaction risk (partial cover)
The map shows the risk of the topsoil becoming compacted due to the passage of machinery. This map primarily covers the cultivated land in Scotland and provides information on the risk of topsoil compaction.The topsoil compaction risk gives information of the likelihood of the topsoil becoming compacted in 3 classes: High, Moderate or Low. The risk is based on the natural drainage class of the soil and the soil texture.
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The James Hutton Institute
-Allan Lilly
(Principal Soil Scientist
)Craigiebuckler
,Aberdeen
, GB-ABE- Maintenance and update frequency
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compaction
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soil compaction
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Soil
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- 100 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Denominator
- 25000
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
- Topic category
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- Farming
- Geoscientific information
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SCT
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- 900719825474.10
Vertical CRS
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urn:ogc:def:crs:EPSG:27700
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Esri shapefile
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- Statement
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The assessment of the risk of soil compaction for each of the soils in the Soil Map of Scotland (partial cover) followed the guidelines published in Ball (1985) and Ball (1986) and is based on the natural soil drainage, soil texture and organic matter content. The Land Cover of Scotland map (1988) (LCS88) was used to identify which soils were semi-natural and likely to have an organic topsoil and which were likely to be cultivated and have a mineral topsoil. Where the LCS88 map showed a mixture of both semi-natural and cultivated land cover, the latter was taken to represent the land cover class. Where the soils were described as complexes (that is, more than one soil type if found in the area), the precautionary principle was applied and the soil most at risk of topsoil compaction was used to describe the whole map unit.
Ball, B.C. (Compiler) 1985. Cultivation requirements for Winter barley. SAC/MISR/SIAE publication 154. Scottish Agricultural Colleges. Edinburgh.
Ball, B.C. 1986. Provisional land grouping for selection of cultivation requirements for Winter barley in Scotland. Soil and Tillage Research, 7, 7-18.
Lilly, A & Baggaley, N.J. 2014. Developing simple indicators to assess the role of soils in determining risks to water quality, CREW project number CD2012_42.
Metadata
- Metadata language
- eng (en)
- Resource Type
- dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-06-06
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UK GEMINI
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2.2
The James Hutton Institute
-Allan Lilly
(Principal Soil Scientist
)Craigiebuckler
,Aberdeen
, GB-ABE