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Title
Peatlands of Wales Thickness
Abstract
<p>The Peatlands of Wales map series provides an updated distribution of Welsh Peatlands (to 2022) based on current evidence sources. The data layers were created on a 50m grid whereby the presence and thickness of peat are elucidated from a range of sources for each 50m grid cell across Wales. A peatland evidence score defines the level of confidence in the presence of peat in any given grid cell, with those cells scoring more than 2 on this scale of 1-10, captured in the &lsquo;Peatlands of Wales&rsquo; peat distribution map.</p> <p>This dataset shows the estimated depth of peat across the Peatlands of Wales area as peat thickness. It also shows, as measured thickness<em>,</em> where the peat thickness is taken from measured values (averaged over the 50m cell) which covers nearly 10% of the cells in the Peatland of Wales area.</p> <p>Full details of the sources of data used to build this map as well as the methodologies used to define the level of evidence for the <a href="https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_scg8" target="_blank" rel="noopener">presence of peat </a>and derivation of the <a href="https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_evidence_2nss" target="_blank" rel="noopener">peat evidence score</a> as well as estimates of <a href="https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_thickness" target="_blank" rel="noopener">peat thickness (depth)</a>, <a href="https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_carbon_stock" target="_blank" rel="noopener">carbon stock estimates</a> and <a href="https://datamap.gov.wales/layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_emmisions" target="_blank" rel="noopener">greenhouse gas emissions</a> are presented in the <a href="https://gov.wales/soils-policy-evidence-programme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peatlands of Wales mapping methodology report.</a></p>
Licence
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Type
Spatial data
Keywords
mawn, organic matter, peat, pridd, soil
Category:
Environment

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Regions
Global
Approved
Yes
Published
Yes
Featured
No
Group
Welsh Government

Information

Spatial extent
Projection system
EPSG:27700
Extension x0
180950.0
Extension x1
352100.03125
Extension y0
176000.0
Extension y1
394350.03125

Features

Restrictions
<p>&copy; Crown copyright. Mapping derived from soils data &copy; Cranfield University (NSRI) and for the Controller of HMSO 2022 &copy; Crown copyright 2022. Contains OS data &copy; Crown copyright and database right 2022. Contains Natural Resources Wales information &copy; Natural Resources Wales and Database Right. Contains data from BGS &copy; UKRI. All rights Reserved.&nbsp;</p>
Edition
1
Purpose

<p>Provides an estimate of the thickness of peat likely across the peatlands of wales extent.</p>
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Data quality
<p>Full details of the sources of data used to build this map as well as the methodologies used to define the level of evidence for the presence of peat and derivation of the peat evidence score as well as estimates of peat thickness (depth), carbon stock estimates and greenhouse gas emissions are presented in the <a href="https://gov.wales/soils-policy-evidence-programme" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Peatlands of Wales mapping methodology report.</a></p>
Supplemental information

<p>Map showing the estimated thickness of peat across each 50m cell, where peat thickness has been directly observed the mean thickness of sampled sites in the…

Spatial Representation Type
Vector data is used to represent geographic data

Contact

Email
data@gov.wales
Organisation
Welsh Government

References

Link online
/layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_thickness
Metadata page
/layers/geonode:peatlands_of_wales_thickness/metadata_detail

OGC Geopackage
Peatlands of Wales Thickness.gpkg
DXF
Peatlands of Wales Thickness.dxf
GML 2.0
Peatlands of Wales Thickness.gml
GML 3.1.1
Peatlands of Wales Thickness.gml
Zipped Shapefile
Peatlands of Wales Thickness.zip
CSV
Peatlands of Wales Thickness.csv
Excel
Peatlands of Wales Thickness.excel
GeoJSON
Peatlands of Wales Thickness.json

OGC WMS: geonode Service
Geoservice OGC:WMS
OGC WFS: geonode Service
Geoservice OGC:WFS