National Ecosystem and Ecosystem Services Map – Supporting Ecosystem Service Information: Habitat Asset Register

This dataset contains a habitat asset register for Ireland, e.g. a national scale habitat map conflating all nationally relevant habitat data into one dataset.

This dataset is part of a dataset series that establishes an ecosystem service maps (national scale) for a set of services prioritised through stakeholder consultation and any intermediate layers created by Environment Systems Ltd in the cause of the project. The individual dataset resources in the datasets series are to be considered in conjunction with the project report: https://www.npws.ie/research-projects/ecosystems-services-mapping-and-assessment

The project provides a National Ecosystem and Ecosystem Services (ES) map for a suite of prioritised services to assist implementation of MAES (Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their services) in Ireland.

This involves stakeholder consultation for identification of services to be mapped, the development of a list of indicators and proxies for mapping, as well as an assessment of limitations to ES mapping on differing scales (Local, Catchment, Region, National, EU) based on data availability. Reporting on data gaps forms part of the project outputs.

The project relied on the usage of pre-existing data, which was also utilised to create intermediate data layers to aid in ES mapping. For a full list of the data used throughout the project workings, please refer to the project report.

Alternate title: Habitat Asset Register

Date (Publication): 2017-01-01T00:00:00

Citation identifier: https://data.gov.ie/dataset/ / National Ecosystem-and-Ecosystem-Services-Map-–-Supporting-Ecosystem-Service-Information:-Habitat-Asset-Register

Purpose: The project provides a National Ecosystem and Ecosystem Services (ES) map for a suite of prioritised services to assist implementation of MAES (Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their services) in Ireland.

Status: On going

Point of contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage	National Parks and Wildlife Service	datadelivery@housing.gov.ie	Point of contact

Maintenance and update frequency: As needed

GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0

Habitats and biotopes

GEMET - Concepts, version 3.1

ecosystem, landscape,

National Parks and Wildlife Service

National Parks and Wildlife Service, NPWS, habitat protection, heritage, National Biodiversity Plan, ecosystem services

ISO 3166

Ireland

Use limitation: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Access constraints: Other restrictions

Other constraints: Copyright Government of Ireland. This dataset was created by National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage. This copyright material is licensed for re-use under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International licence. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Spatial representation type: Vector

Denominator: 50000

Language: English

Character set: UTF8

Topic category

Environment
Biota
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Maximum value: 1014

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Reference system identifier: EPSG / https://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/2157
EPSG Geodetic Parameter Dataset EPSG 2009-11-25

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Name	Version
TIF	.

Distributor contact

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage	National Parks and Wildlife Service	datadelivery@housing.gov.ie.ie	Point of contact

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
application/zip	https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/MAES15_HAR_DataSource_Final.zip	Download ZIP

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
image/tiff	https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/MAES15_HAR_L1_Final.zip	Download TIFF

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
image/tiff	https://www.npws.ie/sites/default/files/general/MAES15_HAR_L2.zip	Download TIFF

OnLine resource

Protocol	Linkage	Name
text/html	https://dahg.maps.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=cb5040a4a19645b6b424bed940c54fff	The National Ecosystem and Ecosystem Services Map Viewer

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Conformance result

Title: INSPIRE Data Specification on Habitats and Biotopes

Alternate title: INSPIRE Data Specifications v3.0

Date (Publication): 2013-12-10

Explanation: The INSPIRE Directive or INSPIRE lays down a general framework for a Spatial Data Infrastructure (SDI) for the purposes of European Community environmental policies and policies or activities which may have an impact on the environment.

Pass: No

Conformance result

Title: 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

Alternate title: INSPIRE Interoperability Regulation

Date (Publication): 2010-12-08

Explanation: Level of conformance with the 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

Pass: No

Statement: 50m raster grid file used in the Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems Service Project. Created by Environment Systems Ltd. (ESL).

The dataset was derived through additive analysis of relevant spatial data from a conflation of listed datasets:

1. Base Layer - Corine

2. Connolly derived peatland map

3. RBMA13 – High bog cutaway

4. LPIS – Arable

5. LPIS - grassland

6. FIPS

7. WFD Lake segments

8. National Survey of Upland Habitats

9. NPWS semi-natural grassland survey

10. National Survey of Native Woodlands

11. ALEW

12. Article 17: completed Upland Mosaics

13. Article 17: Limestone pavement

14. Article 17: Residual alluvial forests

15. Article 17: Old oak woodlands

16. Article 17: Taxus baccata woods

17. Article 17: Blanket bog (active)

18. Article 17: Wet heath

19. Article 17: Dry heath

20. Article 17: Calcareous rocky slopes

21. Article 17: Siliceous Scree

22. Article 17: Calcareous Scree

23. RBMA13_unsurveyed_data_prior_2007

24. RBMA13_habitats_2007_13_othersources

25. RBMA13_habitats_prior_2007

26. Raised Bog RBMA13_ecotope_map

27. Article 17: Bog woodland

28. Article 17: Transition Mires

29. Article 17: Cladium Fens

30. Article 17: Alkaline fens

31. Article 17: Species-rich Nardus upland grassland

32. Article 17: Molinia meadows

33. Article 17: Hydrophilous tall herb

34. Article 17: Orchid-rich calcareous grassland

35. Article 17: Lowland hay meadows

36. Article 17: Alpine and subalpine heath

37. Article 17: Coastal Lagoons

38. Saltmarsh monitoring project

39. Article 17 Machair 21A0

40. Article 17: Fixed dunes

41. Article 17: Marram dunes

42. Article 17: Embryonic shifting dunes

43. Article 17: Dunes with creeping willow

44. Article 17 Humid Dune Slacks 2190

45. Turloughs

46. OSi : Built-up areas (Buildings, Regional Roads, National Primary Roads, National Secondary Roads, Motorways)

Intermediate layers were created for some of the datasets, as they required manipulation in order to be used in the data conflation to create the Habitat Asset Register (see Parker et. al., 2016*, p. 37 - for details).

For the full processing methodology, including a comprehensive list of the input datasets, associated scores, full processing methodology, including any modification of the input data refer to the project Final Report (resource 23).

The final raster dataset has been created at a cell size of 50m. All processing steps were carried out at a cell size of 50m.

Metadata for all input datasets is included with the datasets in question.

Filename /Map package / PNG (HAR L1): 3010_MAES15-HAR_L1.tif / 3010MAES15-HAR_L1.mpk / 3010MAES15-HAR_L1.png

Filename /Map package / PNG (HAR Data source): 3010_MAES15-HAR_DataSource.tif / 3010MAES-HAR_DataSource.mpk / 3010MAES15-HAR_DataSource.png

Filename (HAR L2): 3010_MAES15-HAR_L2.tif

Filename (HAR original conflation): 3010_MAES15-HAR_OriginalClasses.tif

Filename (HAR look-up table classes/raster values): 3010_MAES15-HAR_LookUp.xlsx

Project processing was carried out in EPSG29902

Final outputs were converted to EPSG2157, using the transformation provided by proj4 ( https://trac.osgeo.org/proj/wiki/FAQ), which is used by most GIS software for coordinate system manipulation. The source Coordinate Reference System is Irish Transverse Mercator (ITM). The transformation used is equivalent in accuracy to the one held by NPWS.

This dataset has been created using various processing and GIS software including; ArcMap 10.1, FME and QGIS.

Parker, N., Naumann, E-K., Medcalf, K., Haines-Young, R., Potschin, M., Kretsch, C., Parker, J. & Burkhard, B. (2016) National ecosystem and ecosystem service mapping pilot for a suite of prioritised services. Irish Wildlife Manuals, No. 95. National Parks and Wildlife Service, Department of Arts, Heritage, Regional, Rural and Gaeltacht Affairs, Ireland.

Metadata

File identifier: 39068449-8f9d-45db-b280-693c8f777747 XML

Metadata language: English

Character set: UTF8

Hierarchy level: Dataset

Date stamp: 2021-07-08T03:59:15

Metadata standard name: ISDI Metadata Profile

Metadata standard version: 1.2

Metadata author

Organisation name	Individual name	Electronic mail address	Role
Department of Housing, Local Government and Heritage	National Parks and Wildlife Service	datadelivery@housing.gov.ie	Author

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