A land characteristic data bank for Great Britain

Land and land use attributes have been quantitatively recorded from
existing map and statistic sources for the 2858 10 x 10 km grid squares
(cells) of the Ordnance Survey National Grid which contain land in
Great Britain. 126 attributes are grouped in categories of
physiography; climate; geology; soils ;topography; land use;
agricultural land classification ; and conservation status. They provide
the initial major component of a computer-stored land data set appropriate
to national and regional scales of ecological assessment and resource
evaluation.
Standard statistics outputs supply complete or partial data for
individual cells, or total and average values of required attributes
for any group of cells. Map outputs display, list, and summarise data
for cells which meet specifications of individual or combined
attributes, for Great Britain as a whole, or for required regions.
Recording of the initial data, their computer input and editing, and
the availability of analysis and retrieval programmes, have completed
the first phase of this data bank. Intended developments that are
outlined include land classifications based on the data, correlations
of land characteristics or classes with biological distributions
already available at this scale, and extension and upgrading of the
initial data set.
Information from the data set can be supplied at agreed charges