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eng
service
Department Of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD)
Philip.downey@dardni.gov.uk
pointOfContact
2014-02-18
UK GEMINI
2.2
DARD - CM Habitat Areas in Agri-Environment Schemes (INSPIRE View Service)
2013-10-07
publication
The data illustrates the distribution of Habitat Areas as defined and identified by the Countryside Management Development Branch of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (DARD), Northern Ireland. The Countryside Management Development Branch is responsible for the development of Agri-Environment climate schemes. Agri-Environment schemes aim to enhance the environment by providing funding to farmers in return for managing their land in a sustainable way. Each habitat area represents the sum area of that particular habitat from all Agri-Environment Schemes including "Countryside Management Schemes" [CMSs], "Environmentally Sensitive Area Schemes" [ESAs], and "Northern Ireland Countryside Management Schemes" [NICMSs]. There are a total of 16 Habitat Areas in Agri-Environment schemes available to view on Spatial NI including the following; -Improved Grassland -Semi-Improved Grassland -Species Rich Grassland -Species Rich Hay Meadow -Breeding Wader Sites -Wetlands -Rough Moorland Grazing -Lowland Raised Bog -Woodland -Parkland -Riparian Zones -Grass Margin Areas -Winter Feeding Sites -Lapwing Areas -Coastal Grazing Areas -Traditional Orchards The location of the habitat areas have been tessellated based on a 1 kilometre by 1 kilometre grid which illustrates the distribution of the habitat areas across Northern Ireland. The 1 kilometre grid has been based off the National Irish Grid. The attribute table provides a summary of the total area of habitat land located within and/or bordering the 1km grid. However, in order to attain more detailed information beyond the available Northern Ireland wide distribution mapping (e.g. the boundary of a particular habitat) a request can be made by contacting the data owner.
Users outside of the Spatial NI Portal please use Resource Locator 2.
DARD
Countryside Management Development Branch Loughry Campus
Cookstown
BT80 9AA
Northern Ireland
Philip.downey@dardni.gov.uk
pointOfContact
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infoMapAccessService
ISO 19119 service taxonomy
2003
publication
habitat
GEMET - Concepts, version 2.4
2010-01-13
publication
Habitats and Biotopes
Agricultural and Aquaculture Facilities
INSPIRE
DARD
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development
Agriculture and Fishing
Agriculture
Agri Environment Scheme
Environment
Scheme
Agri
Habitat Areas
Habitat
Countryside Management
Countryside
Management
Farming
Sustainable
CMS
Improved Grassland
Species
Grassland
Meadow
Hay
Wader Sites
Wetlands
Rough Grazing
Moorland
Raised Bog
Lowland
Woodland
Parkland
Riparian
Zones
Winter Feeding
Lapwing
Coastal Grazing
Grazing
Orchards
Conservation
INSPIRE View Service
View
Service
Northern Ireland
NI
Use of the data for education, research or non-commercial purposes is unrestricted. Use of the data for commercial purposes is subject to agreement and requires the permission from the data owner.
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Use of the data for education, research or non-commercial purposes is unrestricted. Use of the data for commercial purposes is subject to agreement and requires the permission from the data owner.
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https://www.spatialni.gov.uk/wss/service/DARD_AgriEnvironScheme-INC-LIC/WSS?request=GetCapabilities&service=WMS&version=1.3.0
http://www.gistrategyni.gov.uk/index/spatialni/download_services.htm
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Geographic web service
INSPIRE Data Specification on Habitats and Biotopes
2013-02-04
publication
INSPIRE Data Specification on Habitats and Biotopes
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Agri-environment habitat area attributes were extracted from several DARD databases including habitat data relating to "Legacy Agri-Environment Schemes" (i.e. "Countryside Management Schemes" [CMSs] and "Environmentally Sensitive Area Schemes" [ESAs]) from the DARD Grants and Subsidies database and habitat data relating to "Northern Ireland Countryside Management Schemes" [NICMSs] from the DARD Customer Information System database. A habitat area can be classified within more than one scheme. Therefore, all habitats areas from every scheme were collated into one master dataset. The habitat attributes of this master dataset were joined with a DARD GIS polygon geospatial dataset that spatially plots all agricultural fields in Northern Ireland registered with DARD. Based on this, the habitats areas have been tessellated on a 1 kilometre by 1 kilometre grid which illustrates the distribution of the habitat areas across Northern Ireland. The 1 kilometre grid has been based off the National Irish Grid. The data is sourced from the most up to date record of habitat areas, as of 01 December 2012.