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Land Cover of Scotland 1988 (LCS88)
Copyright Statement - Land Cover of Scotland 1988
The Land Cover of Scotland Dataset is Crown Copyright 1992. It shall not be reproduced in any form whatever without the permission of The Controller of Her Majesty's Stationery Office.
Reproduced from OS Pathfinder Series with the permission of the Controller of HMSO.
© Crown Copyright 1992
Coding key for the 126 interpreted single features
code and description
- 1 Isolated farmsteads and other buildings, with no trees
- 2 Isolated farmsteads and other buildings, with trees
- 3 Factories
- 4 Airfields
- 5 Golf courses
- 6 Cemeteries
- 7 Recreational land: wildlife parks, caravan sites, etc
- 10 - 11Cliffs, bare rock, crags and screes
- 12 - 13 Quarries and opencast
- 14 - 15 Bings and refuse tips
- 16 Paths
- 17 Hill roads
- 18 - 19 Water
- 20, 29 Built-up land
- 21 - 22 Transport features: road, rail
- 24 Estuary, below the normal tidal limit
- 25 No photo cover
- 26 Cloud or shadow
- 27 Snow cover
- 28 Ski areas
- 70 -72 Coniferous woodland: plantation
- 73 -75 Coniferous woodland: semi-natural
- 76 -78 Undifferentiated broadleaved woodland (area)
- 79 -81 Undifferentiated mixed woodland (area)
- 82 Undifferentiated low scrub
- 83 Recently ploughed land for afforestation
- 84 Former woodland recently felled
- 85 Open canopy young plantation
- 86 Rhododendron scrub
- 87 Land recently "ripped" for afforestation
- 90 - 97 Improved pasture: with or without rock outcrops, clustered farmsteads, scattered trees
- 100- 107 Arable land: with or without rock outcrops, clustered farmsteads, scattered trees
- 110 - 117 Dry heather moor: with or without rock outcrops, burning, scattered trees
- 120 - 127 Wet heather moor: with or without rock outcrops, burning, scattered trees
- 130 - 137 Undifferentiated heather moor: with or without rock outcrops, burning, scattered trees
- 140 - 143 Undifferentiated coarse grasslands (Nardus/Molinia): with or without rock outcrops, scattered trees
- 150 - 153 Smooth grasslands with rushes: with or without rock outcrops, scattered trees
- 155 - 158 Smooth grasslands with low scrub: with or without rock outcrops, scattered trees
- 160 - 163 Undifferentiated smooth grasslands: with or without rock outcrops, scattered trees
- 170 - 173 Undifferentiated bracken: with or without rock outcrops, scattered trees
- 180 - 183 Blanket bog and other peatland vegetation: with or without erosion, scattered trees
- 184 Blanket bog and other peatland vegetation: dubh lochans
- 185 - 186 Blanket bog and other peatland vegetation: peat workings
- 190 Undifferentiated salt marshes: no scattered trees
- 191 Maritime grasslands and heaths: no scattered trees
- 200 - 203 Wetlands: with or without drains, scattered trees
- 210 - 213 Dunelands: bare dunes, partially stabilised dunes, links with grassland, links with heathland
- 222 Undifferentiated montane vegetation: with or without erosion, rock outcrops
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Updated: 23 Mar 2011, Content by: GD
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