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Bare peat in Scotland from Sentinel 2

Publisher
Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Updated
9 January 2025
Topic
Not set
Licence
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Summary

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.

Data links

Link Format Preview Updated
NatureScot OpenData Hub – 9/1/2025
GeoJSON (EPSG:4326) ZIP – 9/1/2025
Geopackage (EPSG:27700) ZIP – 9/1/2025
GML (EPSG:4258) ZIP – 9/1/2025
ESRI File geodatabase (EPSG:27700) ZIP – 9/1/2025
ESRI Shapefile (EPSG:27700) ZIP – 9/1/2025
renewables:barepeat – 9/1/2025
barepeat – 9/1/2025

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Additional information

Source Metadata
XML, HTML
Date added
08 January 2025
Harvest GUID
92ebd99b-d4da-4dcc-b18d-839d782c921b
Extent (Latitude)
60.7505° to 54.7731°
Extent (Longitude)
-7.9189° to -0.8597°
Dataset reference date (creation)
2020-04-13
Frequency of update
notPlanned
Access constraints
Available under the Open Government Licence - https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/
Responsible party
NatureScot (pointOfContact)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng