Identification

Title

National Soil Inventory of Scotland

Alternative title(s)

NSIS 10km

Abstract

The National Soils Inventory for Scotland (NSIS1) dataset has been collected using sampling points arranged as a 10 km grid. A wide range of attributes are described, measured and analysed for each site. These range from contextual information describing the surrounding landscape (such as slope and vegetation), down to detailed chemical analyses of each horizon within the soil profile. There are 721 sites in total where soil occurs; where there is no soil at a particular 10 km sampling point, this point has not been included.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/soils/downloads/Hutton_NSIS10km_OpenData.zip

Unique resource identifier

code

NSIS_10km

codeSpace

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

authority code

EPSG

code identifying the spatial reference system

OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG:27700)

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

farming

geoscientificInformation

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Soil

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

GB-SCT

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.343553

East bounding longitude

-0.705118

North bounding latitude

60.866019

South bounding latitude

54.548773

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

Scotland

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

1981-01-01

date type

publication

effective date

1981-01-01

Frequency of update

irregular

Quality and validity

Lineage

More information on the procedures employed to obtain these data can be found in the National Soil Inventory of Scotland (1978-1988) protocols available at Scotland's Soils website.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

ESRI shapefile

version of format

8 +

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

no limitations on public access

Constraint set

Use constraints

The James Hutton Institute Open Data Licence

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

Chief Executive

organisation name

The James Hutton Institute

full postal address

Craigiebuckler

Aberdeen

AB15 8QH

United Kingdom

email address

soils@hutton.ac.uk

responsible party role

publisher

Responsible party

contact position

Research Scientist

organisation name

The James Hutton Institute

full postal address

Craigiebuckler

Aberdeen

AB15 8QH

United Kingdom

telephone number

01224 395265

email address

david.donnelly@hutton.ac.uk

responsible party role

processor

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Research Scientist

organisation name

The James Hutton Institute

full postal address

Craigiebuckler

Aberdeen

AB15 8QH

United Kingdom

telephone number

01224 395265

email address

david.donnelly@hutton.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-03-23

Metadata language