The revised Scottish soil classification 2013.

The Soil Survey of Scotland soil classification was revised in 2013. The classification was formally published in 1984 in the Organization and methods of the 1:250 000 Soil Survey of Scotland Handbook 8 that accompanied the 1:250 000 scale paper National soil map. As work continued to digitise the various soil maps and make data more accessible, it bacame clear that the existing classification had developed and that disperate datasets had different soil classifications. Therefore, it was decided to develop a unified, revised classification that encompasses the different digital datasets. This classification was first published in 2013 with slight changes to wording in 2024. Use of this dataset is covered by the James Hutton Open Data Licence. Please cite as: 'Soil Survey of Scotland Staff (2013). The revised Scottish soil classification 2013. The James Hutton Institute. Aberdeen. Doi:10.5281/zenodo.20555463'. The work was funded by the Scottish Government's Underpinning Capacity funding