Carbon and Peatland 2016 map

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Scottish Government SpatialData.gov.scot
Last updated:
09 January 2025
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Summary

NatureScot has prepared a consolidated spatial dataset of ‘carbon rich soil, deep peat and priority peatland habitats’ in Scotland derived from existing soil and vegetation data (James Hutton Institute 1:25,000 and 1:250,000 scale soil data and Land Cover Scotland 1988). The resulting Carbon and Peatland map updated earlier work undertaken by NatureScot for the identification of natural heritage features of national importance available from Scotland’s soil website. The map is a high-level planning tool to promote consistency and clarity in the preparation of spatial frameworks by planning authorities. The map is a predictive tool which provides an indication of the likely presence of peat on each individually-mapped area, at a coarse scale. The types of peat shown on the map are carbon-rich soils, deep peat and priority peatland habitat.

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NatureScot OpenData Hub N/A 09 January 2025 Not available
GeoJSON (EPSG:4326) ZIP 09 January 2025 Not available
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Geopackage (EPSG:27700) ZIP 09 January 2025 Not available
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ESRI Shapefile (EPSG:27700) ZIP 09 January 2025 Not available
renewables:carbonpeatlandmap2016 N/A 09 January 2025 Not available
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Added to data.gov.uk
2025-01-08
Access contraints
Not specified
Harvest GUID
51b36efb-3521-4243-9bb0-93f8a7a60a71
Extent
Latitude: 60.87° to °
Longitude: -8.80° to -0.71°
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Dataset reference date
2016-06-01 (creation)
2016-06-29 (publication)
Frequency of update
unknown
Responsible party
NatureScot (custodian, originator)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
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