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 GIG 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.
dataset
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BPEO
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Geology
Habitats and biotopes
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2008-06-01
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2020-04-13
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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/
publication
2010-12-08
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ESRI Shapefile
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Open Government Licence
Data supply
Scottish Natural Heritage (NatureScot)
pointOfContact
Peatland Action data team manager
Scottish Natural Heritage (NatureScot)
pointOfContact
Earth Observation analyst
Scottish Natural Heritage (NatureScot)
pointOfContact
Earth Observation analyst
Scottish Natural Heritage (NatureScot)
pointOfContact
2022-03-08T14:26:54