This report provides a detailed overview of methods, data sources, data management approaches and limitations of the up-to-date work on cost effectiveness of peatland restoration projects funded in Scotland under the Peatland Action (PA) grant programme. For the purpose of exploring and evaluating relevant spatial factors of variation in peatland restoration costs and activities, an extensive list of spatially explicit of environmental, meteorological, topographic and infrastructural datasets was identified and sourced. Using various GIS tools, the information from these data sources was extracted and merged with the SRUC/PA cost database.