Land Cover Scotland (LCS) 1988
Default
Identification info
- Alternative title
- LCS88
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Character set
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 1987-07-01
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 1992-07-01
- Identifier
- www.gov.scot / SG_LandCoverScotland_1988
- Maintenance and update frequency
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
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- Land cover
- GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4 ()
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- land cover
- IPSV Subjects List ()
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- Land and premises
- Countryside
- Agricultural land
- Limitations on Public Access
- Other constraints
- No limitations to public access
- Use constraints
- Other constraints
- Open Government Licence
- Other constraints
- The following attribution statement must be used to acknowledge the source of the information: Copyright Scottish Government, contains Ordnance Survey data © Crown copyright and database right (insert year)
- Spatial representation type
- Denominator
- 25000
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Code
- S92000003
- Code
- EPSG:4258
- Code
- EPSG:27700
Distribution Information
Data format
- Data format
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WMS
(
1.3.0
)
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WFS
(
2.0.0
)
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ESRI REST
(
1.0
)
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ESRI Shapefile
(
1.0
)
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WMS
(
1.3.0
)
Transfer options
- Resource Locator
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LandCoverScotland1988
(
OGC:WMS
)
OGC View Service
- Resource Locator
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LC:LandCoverScotland1988
(
OGC:WFS
)
OGC Feature Download Service
- Resource Locator
-
Land Cover Scotland 1988
(
WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link
)
ESRI REST Service
- Resource Locator
-
Land Cover Scotland 1988
(
WWW:DOWNLOAD-1.0-http--download
)
ESRI Shapefile Download
- Quality Scope
Report
- Dataset Reference Date ()
- 2010-12-08
- Degree
- Statement
- The LCS dataset was created by defining a hierarchical land cover classification followed by the interpretation of aerial imagery to identify both single feature and mosaics of different land cover types. The classification system was developed specifically to provide information on semi-natural cover features, so that the greatest detail (at the lowest level in the hierarchy) relates to natural and management features within these cover types. LCS88 has 126 major classes. This was felt necessary to preserve the detail of the ground cover, especially in the upland or moorland areas – which cover some 80% of the land area. Mosaics, consisting of a dominant and subdominant class, were also permitted where the interpreter was unable to separate out different land covers (for instance as part of heather cycling and regeneration, patches of grass establish and then become recolonised by the heather). Some of the mosaics were very region specific and this gave rise to some 1300 classes, and 969 of them in total covered only 1% of the country. Medium scale air photography was flown for the whole of Scotland and interpreted by former soil surveyors to obtain a census map of land cover. Photos were viewed through a stereoscope, and using an acetate overlay features were drawn by hand for points, lines and areas. Area features were identified where they are greater than 10 hectares for semi-natural ground vegetation, greater than 5 hectares for built-up land, or greater than 2 hectares for woodland. A code was allocated to each feature following the agreed classification system. This information was then converted to a computer readable form by digitising against OS Pathfinder maps (1:25,000) in GIS. Lastly, the digitised data was compared to conditions on the ground to produce accuracy assessments.
Metadata
- File identifier
- 7dfaf8ce-2123-4eec-8a16-2e85fab7077d XML
- Metadata Language
- English (en)
- Resource type
- Metadata Date
- 2021-01-14T15:24:38
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3