Summary information
Study title
Land Characteristics Database, 1983
Creator
Ball, D. F., Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Radford, G. L., Institute of Terrestrial Ecology
Study number / PID
2385 (UKDA)
10.5255/UKDA-SN-2385-1 (DOI)
Data access
Restricted
Series
Not available
Abstract
Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.
To provide contextual data for investigating the distribution of plant and animal species, and to establish classifications of land in Britain for the purpose of further land use studies
Main Topics:
Variables
Settlements; communications; population; reference and extent of National Park and AONB; presence of Heritage Coast and Scottish Scenic Area; MAFF agricultural land classes; dominant soil types; rainfall; air temperature; windspeed; sunshine; altitude; slope; river frequency; sea foreshore; water bodies; coastline; bedrock stratigraphy; bedrock lithology; surface geology; crops; grass; rough grazing; total farmland; woodland; urban land; individual agricultural crops; livestock; agricultural workers location
Topics
Keywords
Methodology
Data collection period
01/01/1983
Country
United Kingdom
Time dimension
Cross-sectional (one-time) study
Analysis unit
Administrative units (geographical/political)
10 km grid squares
National
Landscape features
Universe
No information recorded
Sampling procedure
No information recorded
Kind of data
Not availableData collection mode
Compilation or synthesis of existing material
Map derived data (OS 1:250,000 maps)
Access
Publisher
UK Data Service
Publication year
1988
Terms of data access
The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.
Commercial use of the data requires approval from the data owner or their nominee. The UK Data Service will contact you.
Related publications
- Ball, D., Radford, G. and Williams, W. (1983) A land characteristic data bank for Great Britain [Research report], : ITE Bangor.