126 land and land use attributes were recorded for 2858 ten-kilometer grid squares covering Great Britain in the early 1980s. The dataset was compiled by SCIOPS from Ordnance Survey maps and statistical sources. It groups attributes into categories like physiography, climate, geology, soils, topography, land use, agricultural classification, and conservation status.
Use Cases
- Modeling relationships between climate attributes like seasonal rainfall and land use attributes such as farmland extent.
- Classifying agricultural land quality using the Agricultural Land Classification attribute alongside soil group data.
- Assessing conservation priorities by analyzing the Conservation Status attribute, like presence of National Parks, against topographic features.
- Analyzing correlations between physiography attributes, such as altitude range, and geological stratigraphic units.
- Mapping settlement frequency and population density against urban land extent and other topography attributes.
Strengths
- Covers 2858 standardized 10x10 km grid squares for systematic national analysis.
- Includes 126 distinct quantitative attributes across eight major land characteristic categories.
Limitations
- Data is temporally stale, originating from the early 1980s.
- Geographic scope is limited to Great Britain, excluding Northern Ireland and other UK regions.
- Specific sample sizes, data formats, and update mechanisms are unknown.
Provenance
- Source
- SCIOPS, utilizing Ordnance Survey National Grid and statistical sources.
- Collection Method
- Quantitative recording from map and statistic sources for defined grid squares.
- Time Range
- Early 1980s.
- Freshness
- null
- Geography
- Great Britain (England, Scotland, Wales).