Countryside survey from ground and space: Different perspectives, complementary results

Article Abstract:

In research, strategic planing and environmental management, there is a need for survey tools to give information on inter alia, land use, vegetation and land cover. Thematic information of this type is been difficult to produce quickly and with the coverage required. Field and satellite surveys in the Countryside Survey 1990 were compared, and clear differences in defining similarly named classes used in different surveys were found. Scale and resolution were seen to have complex relationships, and spatial generalization was expected by most users. Most of the errors in the Land Cover Map were due to spectral mis-classification.

Land use, Environmental engineering, Surveying, Rural land use

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The validity of using countryside survey sample data from Great Britain to estimate land cover in Scotland

Article Abstract:

The use of stratification structured around environmental units can enable ecological descriptions of geographical regions using data collected within the region as well as from a wider area provided the differences between regions are captured in the differences between strata and are not reflected within strata. This topic is explored through an analysis of the validity of an Institute of Terrestrial Ecology countryside survey to estimate land cover for Scotland.

Usage, Scotland, Stratigraphic correlation, Geology, Stratigraphic, Correlation (Geology), Stratigraphy, Geological mapping, Geological surveys, Institute of Terrestrial Ecology

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Environmental change in Britain's countryside: an analysis of recent patterns and socio-economic processes based on the Countryside Survey 1990

Article Abstract:

The results of UK's Countryside Survey 1990 were used to analyze socio-economic processes and patterns of land cover and botanical change. The land surveyed realized minimal change except for a decline in intensively managed grasslands. Land cover changes occur mostly in farms which have expanded and introduced new equipment. Results also show that environmental changes in the countryside are farm- and location-specific.

United Kingdom, Environmental aspects, Farms

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