Peatland ACTION - Restoration footprint - What are they and how to draw them - Guidance
The restoration footprint is used to calculate the area (in hectares) included within the project. These areas are used by Peatland Action to report to the Scottish Government on the total area of peatlands “put on the road to recovery” in a financial year. It is therefore very important that all applicants are therefore providing this boundary consistently so we can be confident in our evidence.
All the information you need is provided in the document download on this page
Change log - last updated 06 August 2024
Spatial data guidance
- The spatial data guidance now includes why Peatland ACTION ask for the data in the way it does and what the Peatland ACTION requirements are.
- The guidance makes the unrestorable layer mandatory to help reduce enquires about lack of mapping.
- The guidance changes the restoration footprint requirements from “Up-to 50 meters” to “50 meters unless unrestorable peat”.
- The guidance embraces the use of remote sensing techniques as far as the outputs meet the minimum requirements.
QGIS template
- It adds autocomplete tables with metrics for self QA and it also generates metrics that have be copied into application and final report forms to keep consistency between spatial data and forms.
- It now includes a tool to generate a draft of the restoration footprint that clips out selected unrestorable features. This draft might still need to be manually edited in some instances.
- The Forest to bog layer now allows multi-categories in one record.
- The Bare peat stabilisation layer and forest to bog layers have been simplified.
ArcGIS Pro
- We continue supporting agents using this GIS version although we cannot bring all the QGIS functionalities to the ArcPro template.
Coming soon
- Video tutorials about how to use the QGIS template.
