BGS Hosted Metadata
Land Classification of Shetland 1974 web map service
This is a web map service for the Land Classification of the Shetland Isles. The classification was originally developed by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) in 1974 as a framework for ecological sampling and is a stratification of the land into a set of sixteen environmental strata at a 1km resolution. Each strata is an area sharing similar environmental characteristics (such as altitude, geology, distance from sea). The web map service contains two layers: 1) EnvironmentalStrata - all sixteen land classes; 2) OverviewOfStrata - land classes arranged into four related groups. The strata may briefly be described thus: Classes 1-4 - Coastal strata with few rivers running into the sea, gentle terrain; Classes 5-8 - Coastal strata with more sea and steeper slopes; Classes 9-12 - High altitude inland group, with few small water bodies; Classes 13-16 - Lower altitude zones with much peat and freshwater lochans. The four strata within each of these groups contain subtly different variations.
Simple
Identification info
- Date (Publication)
- 2015-09-01
- Date (Creation)
- 1974-08-01
- Citation identifier
- https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/ebde9ef5-744e-4813-ac2f-864dfe14868b
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Point of contact NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Publisher NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre Custodian
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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Bio-geographical Regions
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GeoNames
- Keywords
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- Mapping
- infoMapAccessService
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stratification
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strata
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statistical sampling
- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- unknown
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Terms and conditions apply
- Service Type
- view
- Service Version
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1.3.0
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- Coupled Resource
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Operation Name Scoped name Identifier GetMap
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/f1b3179e-b446-473d-a5fb-4166668da146
- Coupling Type
- Loose
- Contains Operations
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Operation Name Distributed Computing Platforms Connect Point GetCapabilities
HTTPGet https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/ebde9ef5-744e-4813-ac2f-864dfe14868b? GetMap
HTTPGet https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/ebde9ef5-744e-4813-ac2f-864dfe14868b? GetFeatureInfo
HTTPGet https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/ebde9ef5-744e-4813-ac2f-864dfe14868b?
- Unique resource identifier
- WGS 84 / Pseudo-Mercator
- Distribution format
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Name Version JPEG
PNG
TIFF
- 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://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/maps/ebde9ef5-744e-4813-ac2f-864dfe14868b?service=WMS&request=getCapabilities&cache=false& getCapabilities response
- Hierarchy level
- Service
- Other
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service
Domain consistency
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
- Pass
- No
Conformance result
- Title
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Technical Guidance for the implementation of INSPIRE View Services Version 3.0
- Date (Publication)
- 2011-03-21
- Pass
- No
Metadata
- File identifier
- ebde9ef5-744e-4813-ac2f-864dfe14868b XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Character set
- 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- Service
- Hierarchy level name
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service
- Date stamp
- 2025-11-03T09:37:05
- 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
