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Land Cover
A range of resources from various sources depicting land cover in Scotland -
Native Woodland Model (2004)
The Potential for Native Woodland in Upland Scotland was created by the Macaulay Institute and Scottish Natural Heritage in 2004. It was developed to assist in the planning of... -
Soils of Scotland (partial cover)
A series of data sets from the James Hutton Institute that cover the more intensively farmed parts of Scotland. These data are typically at a larger scale (more detailed) than... -
Land Capability Maps
Land capability maps use soil data along with information on other properties, such as climate or landscape, to classify the land for a specific purpose such as the Land... -
Thematic Soil Maps
Thematic soil maps show the distribution of a specific soil property or theme, such as topsoil organic carbon content or soil texture. -
Soil Risk Maps (partial cover)
The Risk maps show a series of simple indicators of the role of soils in determining risks to water quality. These indicators include the risk of soil erosion, leaching from... -
National Soils of Scotland
James Hutton Institute data sets contributing or derived from the National Soils of Scotland database. Soil maps display the distribution of different soil types across the land... -
AECS Spatial Targeting - Beetle Banks
A mapping layer depicting species richness per 10 km x 10 km grid cell of Scottish Biodiversity List species identified as benefiting from the provision of Beetle Banks in the... -
Vegetation survey of Chapel Mires in Lunan catchment, Scotland
The map and associated data are outputs from a project to explore the potential for innovative management of water levels and flows in the Lunan Water, an agricultural catchment... -
Hutton's water data (quantity) from rivers monitoring sites 2004 -2019
The James Hutton's Institute has water monitoring sites mainly in Bowmont, Lunan and Tarland catchments where they collect data on various water variables. This dataset... -
Hutton's water data (quality) from rivers monitoring sites 2004 - 2019
The James Hutton's Institute monitors sites mainly in Lunan and Tarland catchments for water quality.This resource presents data collected on the water monitoring variables... -
Functional and epiphytic biodiversity differences between nine tree species i...
Globally there is increasing concern about the increase in tree pests and pathogens due to an increase in global trade and climate change. If individual tree species are lost or... -
Design and designation of private water supply risk areas,Scotland
Private water supplies (PWS) and users of the waters are responsible for the quality of the water unlike public water supplier who is solely responsible. When PWS serves 50 or... -
Daily streamflow data from gauge stations on main rivers of Scotland (1947-2017)
Data on daily flow of water from main rivers in Scotland and spatial locations of the stations where the data are captured are presented. These data for several years (1947 to... -
Cultural Heritage: Class Indicator
Cultural Heritage CES class Indicator created from the sub-indicators Time Depth and Historic Richness by landscape character units (LCA) The cultural heritage indicator is... -
Characterization of surface water isotope spatial patterns of Scotland
National Waters Inventory for Scotland (NWIS) one of the previous work packages projects funded by the Scottish government had main objective of developing protocols for a new... -
Available Water Capacity
The available water capacity map is based on the 1:250 000 soil map and calculated using data from the Scottish Soils Knowledge and Information Base (SSKIB). The available water... -
Areas of likely high exposure to radon in groundwater drinking water supplies...
The map and data indicate areas in Scotland where there is high likely of exposure to radon in drinking water from groundwater supplies due to underlying rocks layer. The data... -
A model for cost-effectiveness analysis of field scale sediment-bound phospho...
Model for determining cost-effectiveness of farm measures for mitigating diffuse pollution from sediment bound phosphorus runoff from arable farmland. The measure options from... -
AECS Spatial Targeting - Creation of Hedgerows
A mapping layer depicting species richness per 10 km x 10 km grid cell of Scottish Biodiversity List species identified as benefiting from the provision of Hedgerows in the...
