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ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1998
The Land Classification 1998 is a classification of Great Britain into a set of 40 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 a previous 1990 version. 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 1998 provided stratification for the Countryside Survey of Great Britain 2000 and was adjusted from the 1990 version as a consequence of needing to provide National Estimates for habitats for Scotland from Countryside Survey 2000 in addition to GB as a whole. The dataset was later modified in 2007 during Countryside Survey 2007. Both the 1990 version and the 2007 version are also available. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/971671a6-98b4-4d80-b165-21dace7373b9
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- Date (Publication)
- 1998-12-31
- Citation identifier
- CEH:EIDC: / 1317814176710
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/971671a6-98b4-4d80-b165-21dace7373b9
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- doi: / 10.5285/971671a6-98b4-4d80-b165-21dace7373b9
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Bunce, R.G.H., Barr, C.J., Clarke, R.T., Howard, D.C., Lane, A.M.J. (1998). ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1998. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/971671a6-98b4-4d80-b165-21dace7373b9
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wood, C.M.
Point of contact Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Bunce, R.G.H.
Author Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Barr, C.J.
Author Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Clarke, R.T.
Author Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Howard, D.C.
Author Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Lane, A.M.J.
Author NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Bio-geographical Regions
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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3
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Great Britain
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Bunce, R.G.H., Barr, C.J., Clarke, R.T., Howard, D.C., Lane, A.M.J. (1998). ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1998. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/971671a6-98b4-4d80-b165-21dace7373b9
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- Vector
- Distance
- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
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- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Begin date
- 1998-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile format
GML
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/971671a6-98b4-4d80-b165-21dace7373b9 Download the data
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/971671a6-98b4-4d80-b165-21dace7373b9.zip Documents
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Protocol Linkage Name https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/235c42f5-6281-40f6-a74c-1b4eb29c78b1?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS Web Map Service (WMS)
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dataset
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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
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- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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The 1998 version of the ITE Land Classification was developed from an earlier classification from 1990 which used environmental data from all 240,000 km squares in GB to create the stratification. It contains 40 classes or strata, distributed across Great Britain. Each stratum consists of areas with similar environmental characteristics. The classification differs from the 1990 version by splitting classes in England and creating additional classes in Scotland. Further information is provided in the supporting documents available in the Online Resources.
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- 971671a6-98b4-4d80-b165-21dace7373b9 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
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- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-01-09T10:20:31
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
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2.3
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Point of contact
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