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CEH Land Cover Plus: Crops 2015

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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

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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. 

New paper: Soil stewardship, Ecosystem Services and One Health

Submitted by Claire Wood on

December 2015

A new paper has proposed that soil stewardship can act as a focus for synergy between Ecosystem Services research and environmental health research. It advocates that large-scale monitoring programmes like Countryside Survey could be exploited to better understand patterns and drivers of animal, human and ecosystem health, and their trade-offs with other important services.

Read paper HERE

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