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Land Cover Map 2015 Now Available

Submitted by Claire Wood on Fri, 04/28/2017 - 10:09

CEH's latest land cover map dataset, Land Cover Map 2015 (LCM2015), is now available.

Summary Description of LMC2015:

New! Interactive Countryside Survey timeline available

Submitted by Claire Wood on Tue, 03/01/2016 - 14:17

March 2016

New! Interactive Countryside Survey timeline available via ESRI's Storymaps web application.

Explore the history of Countryside Survey via interactive maps and photos.

Click here to view.

CEH Land Cover Plus: Crops 2015

Submitted by Claire Wood on Sun, 02/28/2016 - 13:20

CEH Land Cover Plus: Crops 2015

CEH and Remote Sensing Applications Consultants Ltd (RSAC) are collaborating on a project called Land Cover plus: Crops which exploits Copernicus Sentinel-1 C-band SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) and Sentinel-2 optical data to produce annual crop maps for the whole of the United Kingdom.

Countryside Survey data used in mapping nectar plant changes since 1930s

Submitted by Claire Wood on Wed, 02/24/2016 - 15:36

February 2016

By linking the land-cover maps of Britain made by Sir Dudley Stamp in the 1930s with data from the Countryside Surveys of Britain run by the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH), scientists have shown how nectar plants declined up to the 1970s and stabilised between the 1970s and 2000, and increased between 2000 and 2007.