UK Compiled Topsoil raster dataset (UKTSraster)
The UKTSraster consists of 82 Georeferenced TIFF raster images (GeoTIFF format) with a cell size of 500x500 m, displaying the predicted concentrations for 41 chemical elements in UK topsoil and respective standard error. The UKTSraster is based on the geochemical analyses of 57,966 topsoil samples collected between 1978 and 2014 and analysed by X-Ray Fluorescence spectrometry (XRF). The UKTSraster covers all of England, Wales, and Northern Ireland, and the Clyde basin in Scotland. The GeoTIFF raster image maps were produced from the interpolation by ordinary kriging of the concentration values in the source data points, using the geostatistical wizard in the geostatistical analyst toolbox of ArcGIS 10.8 (ESRI®).
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- Date (Creation)
- 2023-03-20
- Citation identifier
- http://data.bgs.ac.uk/id/dataHolding/13608069
- Point of contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Distributor British Geological Survey
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Originator British Geological Survey
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Distributor British Geological Survey
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Originator British Geological Survey
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Principal investigator British Geological Survey
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not available
Distributor British Geological Survey
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not available
Point of contact
- Maintenance and update frequency
- Not planned
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GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
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BGS Thesaurus of Geosciences
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Geochemical data
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X ray fluorescence spectroscopy
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Spatial data
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Kriging
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Variograms
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UK Location (INSPIRE)
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Top soil
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- dataCentre
- Keywords
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NERC_DDC
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- Access constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- licenceOGL
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
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The copyright of materials derived from the British Geological Survey's work is vested in the Natural Environment Research Council [NERC]. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, or stored in a retrieval system of any nature, without the prior permission of the copyright holder, via the BGS Intellectual Property Rights Manager. Use by customers of information provided by the BGS, is at the customer's own risk. In view of the disparate sources of information at BGS's disposal, including such material donated to BGS, that BGS accepts in good faith as being accurate, the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) gives no warranty, expressed or implied, as to the quality or accuracy of the information supplied, or to the information's suitability for any use. NERC/BGS accepts no liability whatever in respect of loss, damage, injury or other occurence however caused.
- Other constraints
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Available under the Open Government Licence subject to the following acknowledgement accompanying the reproduced NERC materials "Contains NERC materials ©NERC [year]"
- Other constraints
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Either: (i) the dataset is made freely available, e.g. via the Internet, for a restricted category of use (e.g. educational use only); or (ii) the dataset has not been formally approved by BGS for access and use by external clients under licence, but its use may be permitted under alternative formal arrangements; or (iii) the dataset contains 3rd party data or information obtained by BGS under terms and conditions that must be consulted in order to determine the permitted usage of the dataset. Refer to the BGS staff member responsible for the creation of the dataset if further advice is required. He / she should be familiar with the composition of the dataset, particularly with regard to 3rd party IPR contained in it, and any resultant use restrictions. This staff member should revert to the IPR Section ( ipr@bgs.ac.uk) for advice, should the position not be clear.
- Spatial representation type
- Grid
- Denominator
- 1000000
- Denominator
- 2500000
- Language
- English
- Topic category
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- Geoscientific information
- Geographic identifier
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GB
ISO 3166_1 alpha-3 2009 revision
- Geographic identifier
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UK [id=139300]
British Geological Survey Gazetteer: Geographical hierarchy from Geosaurus 1979 creation
- Geographic identifier
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UKM
ISO 3166_2 2009 revision
- Begin date
- 1978
- End date
- 2023-03
- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid (EPSG::27700)
- Distribution format
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Name Version GeoTIFF
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Enquiries
Distributor
- Distributor contact
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
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not available
Distributor
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.bgs.ac.uk/opengeoscience/downloads.html Map data downloads BGS Data – OpenGeoscience Homepage
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name http://www.ukso.org UKSO - UK Soil Observatory Homepage
- OnLine resource
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Protocol Linkage Name https://doi.org/10.5285/76b69adf-699b-4032-a751-2db0991d55f6 Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
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- Dataset
- Other
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dataset
Conformance result
- Title
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INSPIRE Implementing rules laying down technical arrangements for the interoperability and harmonisation of Geology
- Date (Publication)
- 2011
- Explanation
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See the referenced specification
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- No
Conformance result
- Title
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Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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See http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=OJ:L:2010:323:0011:0102:EN:PDF
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- No
- Statement
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The 57,966 topsoil data points of the source data are a combination of data from three main sources, namely the BGS G-BASE rural and urban topsoil data, the GSNI TellusNI rural and urban topsoil data and the RR-BGS XRF, accounting with 76.4%, 13.8 and 9.8% of the source data points respectively. Source data points are unevenly distributed varying from 1 sample per 25 km2 in the RR-BGS XRF to 4 samples per 1 km2 in urban centres sampled by the G-BASE and TellusNI projects. The predicted concentration maps reflect this uneven sampling density with less ‘smooth’ geochemical features in areas of the map where sampling density is higher, given the options made during the ordinary kriging.
Metadata
- File identifier
- fada8b3f-e509-6298-e053-0937940a8488 XML
- Metadata language
- English
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Date stamp
- 2024-12-02
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
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2.3
- Metadata author
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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role British Geological Survey
Point of contact
- Dataset URI