A satellite stock of UK land use finds that,while Britons pack into the cities, the wild and open spaces are grossly underusedOne of the most appealing news items of the week was buried in the BBC’s Thursday night news schedule. It was a profound and meaningful tale, and yet the BBC dressed it up as a quaint (charmingly old fashioned) curiosity. The yarn’s top line was about the different types of land components that do up Britain. It seems that as well as making a rubbish tip of outer space and vandalising innocent planets such as Mars,some of our satellites have been taking high-definition pictures of the UK.
According to the BBC, these images have been analysed and compared with detailed maps. Every different type of land has been awarded a classification and this permits scientists and environmentalists to obtain a snapshot of changing land use in the UK. Thus, and conservationists can observe those areas that may be in danger of being swamped by the urban sprawl. Yet the urban sprawl hardly exists at all.
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Source: guardian.co.uk