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ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1990
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
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- Date (Publication)
- 1990-01-01
- Citation identifier
- CEH:EIDC: / 1316009566467
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
- Citation identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
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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
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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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- Not planned
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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
- Keywords
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- Mapping
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Great Britain
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stratification
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Countryside Survey
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Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
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ITE
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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. (1990). ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1990. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f
- Spatial representation type
- Vector
- Distance
- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Language
- English
- Character set
- UTF8
- Topic category
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- Environment
- Geoscientific information
- Begin date
- 1990-12-31
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- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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Name Version ESRI Shapefile format
GML
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f Download the data
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f.zip Documents
- OnLine resource
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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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dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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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
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
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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.
Metadata
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- ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
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dataset
- Date stamp
- 2026-01-09T10:20:31
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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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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