Bunce, R.G.H.; Barr, C.J.; Clarke, R.T.; Howard, D.C.; Lane, A.M.J.

ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1990
(ITE Merlewood Land Classification of Great Britain 1990)

Name: ITE Land Classification of Great Britain 1990
Published: 1990-01-01
License: https://eidc.ceh.ac.uk/licences/standard-click-through/plain

https://doi.org/10.5285/ab320e08-faf5-48e1-9ec9-77a213d2907f Cite this dataset

The Land Classification 1990 is a classification of Great Britain into a set of 32 environmental strata, termed land classes, to be used as a basis for ecological survey, originally developed by the Institute of Terrestrial Ecology (ITE) in the late 1970s. The strata were created from the multivariate analysis of 75 environmental variables, including climatic data, topographic data, human geographical features and geology data. The Land Classification can be used to stratify a wide range of ecological and biogeographical surveys to improve the efficiency of collection, analysis and presentation of information derived from a sample. The Land Classification 1990 provided stratification the Countryside Survey of Great Britain 1990. The dataset was later modified in 1998 and 2007 for successive Countryside Surveys, both versions of which are also available.

Publication date: 1990-01-01

Formats

ESRI Shapefile format
GML

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type: Vector
Spatial reference system: OSGB 1936 / British National Grid

Temporal information

Temporal extent: 1990-12-31 to …

Provenance & quality

The 1990 version of the ITE Land Classification was developed from an earlier classification attempt in 1978, but used environmental data from all 240,000 km squares in GB to create the stratification. It contains 32 classes or strata, distributed across Great Britain. Each stratum consists of areas with similar environmental characteristics. Further information is provided in the supporting documents available in the Online Resources.

Services associated with this dataset

ITE land classification of Great Britain web map service

This dataset is included in the following collections

ITE Land Classification of Great Britain (1990-2007)

Citations

Wood, C.M., & Bunce, R.G.H. (2016). Survey of the terrestrial habitats and vegetation of Shetland, 1974 – a framework for long-term ecological monitoring. Earth System Science Data, 8(1), 89–103. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-8-89-2016

Wood, C.M., Bunce, R.G.H., Norton, L.R., Smart, S.M., & Barr, C.J. (2018). Land cover and vegetation data from an ecological survey of "key habitat" landscapes in England, 1992–1993. Earth System Science Data, 10(2), 899–918. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-10-899-2018

Wood, C.M., Smart, S.M., & Bunce, R.G.H. (2015). Woodland Survey of Great Britain 1971-2001. Earth System Science Data, 7(2), 203-214. https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-7-203-2015

Correspondence/contact details

Wood, C.M.

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