ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f 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 2026-01-09T10:20:31 UK GEMINI 2.3 OSGB 1936 / British National Grid ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1990 1990-01-01 publication 1316009566467 CEH:EIDC: https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f 10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f doi: Bunce, R.G.H., Barr, C.J., Clarke, R.T., Howard, D.C., Lane, A.M.J. (1990). ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1990. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f The Land Classification 1990 is a classification of Great Britain into a set of 32 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. 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 1990 provided stratification the Countryside Survey of Great Britain 1990. The dataset was later modified in 1998 and 2007 for successive Countryside Surveys, both versions of which are also available. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f Wood, C.M. UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk pointOfContact Bunce, R.G.H. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Barr, C.J. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Clarke, R.T. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Howard, D.C. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology enquiries@ceh.ac.uk author Lane, A.M.J. Institute of Terrestrial Ecology 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 land use classification GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3 2019-01-28 creation Mapping Great Britain stratification Countryside Survey Institute of Terrestrial Ecology ITE 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., Lane, A.M.J. (1990). ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1990. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f vector 1000 English utf8 environment geoscientificInformation 1990-12-31 -8.648 1.768 49.864 60.861 ESRI Shapefile format GML NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre info@eidc.ac.uk distributor https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f Download the data Download a copy of this data download https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f.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 1990 version of the ITE Land Classification was developed from an earlier classification attempt in 1978, but used environmental data from all 240,000 km squares in GB to create the stratification. It contains 32 classes or strata, distributed across Great Britain. Each stratum consists of areas with similar environmental characteristics. Further information is provided in the supporting documents available in the Online Resources.