5f0605e4-aa2a-48ab-b47c-bf5510823e8f English ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) dataset dataset NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg Lancaster LA1 4AP UK info@eidc.ac.uk https://eidc.ac.uk/ EIDC website The Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC) is the UK's national data centre for terrestrial and freshwater sciences. information pointOfContact 2026-01-09T10:20:46 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 2007 2007-05-01 publication 1317814507879 CEH:EIDC: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/5f0605e4-aa2a-48ab-b47c-bf5510823e8f 10.5285/5f0605e4-aa2a-48ab-b47c-bf5510823e8f doi: Bunce, R.G.H., Barr, C.J., Clarke, R.T., Howard, D.C., Scott, W.A. (2007). ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 2007. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/5f0605e4-aa2a-48ab-b47c-bf5510823e8f The Land Classification 2007 is a classification of Great Britain into a set of 45 environmental strata, termed land classes, to be used as a basis for ecological survey, originally developed by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) in the late 1970s and building upon previous 1990 and 1998 versions. The strata were created from the multivariate analysis of 75 environmental variables, including climatic data, topographic data, human geographical features and geology data. The Land Classification can be used to stratify a wide range of ecological and biogeographical surveys to improve the efficiency of collection, analysis and presentation of information derived from a sample. The Land Classification 2007 provided stratification for the Countryside Survey of Great Britain 2007 and was adjusted from the 1998 version as a consequence of needing to provide National Estimates for habitats for Wales from Countryside Survey 2007 in addition to Scotland and GB as a whole. Both the 1990 version and the 1998 versions are also available. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/5f0605e4-aa2a-48ab-b47c-bf5510823e8f Wood, C.M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Bunce, R.G.H. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Barr, C.J. Unknown enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Clarke, R.T. Bournemouth University enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Howard, D.C. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4494-7450 ORCID record ORCID is an open, non-profit, community-driven effort to create and maintain a registry of unique researcher identifiers and a transparent method of linking research activities and outputs to these identifiers. information author Scott, W.A. Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk publisher notPlanned Bio-geographical Regions theme GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 2008-06-01 publication landscape ecology ecology GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Mapping Great Britain otherRestrictions Registration is required to access this data otherRestrictions Licence terms and conditions apply otherRestrictions If you reuse this data, you should cite: Bunce, R.G.H., Barr, C.J., Clarke, R.T., Howard, D.C., Scott, W.A. (2007). ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 2007. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/5f0605e4-aa2a-48ab-b47c-bf5510823e8f vector English utf8 environment geoscientificInformation 2007-05-01 -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 ESRI Shapefile format NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/5f0605e4-aa2a-48ab-b47c-bf5510823e8f Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/5f0605e4-aa2a-48ab-b47c-bf5510823e8f.zip Documents Documents available to assist with re-use of this dataset. information https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/235c42f5-6281-40f6-a74c-1b4eb29c78b1?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS Web Map Service (WMS) Link to the 'getCapabilities' request for a Web Map Service for this data dataset dataset Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services 2010-12-08 The 2007 version of the ITE Land Classification was developed from earlier classifications from 1990 and 1998 which used environmental data from all 240,000 km squares in GB to create the stratifications. It contains 45 classes or strata, distributed across Great Britain. Each stratum consists of areas with similar environmental characteristics. The classification differs from the 1998 version by splitting classes in England and creating additional classes in Wales. Further information is provided in the supporting documents available in the Online Resources.