Bare peat in Scotland from Sentinel 2
The dataset shows larger expanses of bare peat across Scotland from Sentinel 2 imagery taken in summer 2018. Resolution of 10m x 10m Sentinel 2 pixels. Produced by NatureScot Geographic Information Group Earth Observation team for the Peatland Action project to be used at a regional scale to identify those parts of Scotland with the most exposed peat.
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Thresholding and machine learning approaches were trialled before the machine learning method was rolled out across Scotland. A Sentinel 2 mosaic of Scotland comprised of images from late June 2018 was supplied by JNCC and used for this work (apart from a part of southern Shetland which was affected by cloud). Using Sentinel 2 meant that the whole country could be processed in a relatively short space of time, although the country was split into 14 separate regions for classification and a final manual cleaning step was required for most areas. With a 10 metre pixel resolution the output map is limited to larger areas of bare peat and more intricate degraded areas will be missed. It is worth emphasising it is a bare peat map not a degraded peat map so includes other areas such as exposed peat workings and dried out bog pools. An analysis report or full methodology is available on request. Python and R code developed for this project are available on github. https://github.com/duncansnh/Bare-peat/
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