We provide national scale monitoring of...
Land cover, as a critical component of land-surface models and as a basis for future projections of land-use change and climate impacts.
![Countryside (taken from countryside survey website)](/sites/default/files/styles/tile_listing/public/images/stripes/d8-tile-countryside-survey-740x546.jpg?itok=dHogYxuW)
Countryside Survey
A globally unique audit of the soil and vegetation of Britain that began in 1978.
![GB land cover change 1990-2015 GB land cover change 1990-2015](/sites/default/files/styles/tile_listing/public/images/stripes/d8-tile-Land-Cover-change-GB-feather-border-740x546.jpg?itok=UpS_j_7Y)
Land Cover Map (LCM)
To develop enhanced methods for monitoring UK land cover and habitats.
![Atmospheric chemistry monitoring equipment at Moor House](/sites/default/files/styles/tile_listing/public/images/stripes/ECN-Moor-House-DSC_0955-w841px_0.jpg?itok=VU3hrbdI)
UK Environmental Change Network (ECN)
Supporting the detection, interpretation and forecasting of environmental change and its impacts on soils, waters and biodiversity in a wide range of terrestrial and freshwater habitats.
![Lake Windermere in the mist](/sites/default/files/styles/tile_listing/public/images/stripes/d8-tile-11501-Windermere-Mist-740x546_0.jpg?itok=PMz1pBxk)
Cumbrian Lakes monitoring platform
Long-term and high-resolution monitoring to understand lake ecosystem responses to environmental change, over multiple time scales.