Identification

Title

1:50,000 Land Capability for Agriculture

Alternative title(s)

Land capability for agriculture (partial cover)

Abstract

The Land Capability Classification for Agriculture has as its objective the presentation of detailed information on soil, climate and relief in a form which will be of value to land use planners, agricultural advisers, farmers and others involved in optimising the use of land resources. The classification ranks land on the basis of its potential productivity and cropping flexibility determined by the extent to which its physical characteristics (soil, climate and relief) impose long term restrictions on its agricultural use. THE CLASSES Class 1. Land capable of producing a very wide range of crops with high yields Class 2. Land capable of producing a wide range of crops with yields less high than Class 1. Class 3. Land capable of producing good yields from a moderate range of crops. Class 4. Land capable of producing a narrow range of crops. Class 5. Land suited only to improved grassland and rough grazing. Class 6. Land capable only of use as rough grazing. Class 7. Land of very limited agricultural value. THE DIVISIONS A division is a ranking within a class. As the requirements of the crops suited to Classes 1 and 2 are fairly stringent, land in these classes has inherently low degrees of internal variability and no divisions are present. The requirements of crops grown in the remaining classes are less rigorous, consequently land included is more variable in character.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/files/soils/downloads/lca_50k.zip

protocol: WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link

name: ESRI Shapefile Download

description: A zip of the Esri shapefile, including licence and Esri layer files.

https://DRUID.HUTTON.AC.UK/arcgis/services/Hutton_LCA50K_OSGB/MapServer/WMSServer?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS

protocol: OGC:WMS

name: 50K LCA WMS

description: 1:50

Unique resource identifier

code

cfa70edc-8884-433d-b1f3-3970f5b4b047_resource

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

agriculture

Keyword set

keyword value

Soil

Land use

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.80

East bounding longitude

-0.71

North bounding latitude

60.87

South bounding latitude

54.63

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

GB-SCT

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2014-04-01T00:00:00

Frequency of update

notPlanned

Quality and validity

Lineage

Digitised from the paper maps published in the 1980's. Please refer to the information for the 1:250,000 LCA for further details.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

ESRI Shapefile

version of format

1.0

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Limitations on public access

no limitations on public access

Constraint set

Use constraints

Suitable for use at medium scales. Data of national coverage is available at 1:250,000 scale.

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

contact position

David Donnelly

organisation name

The James Hutton Institute

telephone number

01224 395265

email address

david.donnelly@hutton.ac.uk

responsible party role

distributor

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

contact position

Senior Research Scientist

organisation name

The James Hutton Institute

telephone number

01224 395265

facsimile number

email address

david.donnelly@hutton.ac.uk

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2022-03-23

Metadata language