AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
Water Framework Directive (WFD) Coastal Waterbodies Cycle 2

      Water Framework Directive (WFD) Coastal Waterbodies is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Article 2, clause 7 of the WFD defines coastal waterbodies as '...a surface water on the landward side of a line, every point of which is at a distance of one nautical mile on the seaward side from the nearest point of the baseline from which the breadth of territorial waters is measured, extending where appropriate up to the outer limit of transitional waters'. Coastal waters were defined by territorial waters 1 nautical mile from the Mean High Water coastline taken directly from OS 1:50K MeridianTM 2. The delineation between coastal and estuarine waters was delineated by t
he Environment Agency defined transitional waterbodies. Waterbodies are also split and assigned to River Basin Districts. Since waterbodies are attributed with a unique identifier 'EA_WB_ID' this dataset can be linked directly to other WFD data sources such as physical characteristics, risk, classification and proposed objectives. This dataset covers the layer for Cycle 2 of the Water framework Directive.

    

Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Water Framework Directive (WFD) Transitional Waterbodies Cycle 2

      'Water Framework Directive (WFD) Transitional Waterbodies' is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Article 2, clause 6 of the WFD defines them as '...bodies of surface water in the vicinity of river mouths which are partly saline in character as a result of their proximity to coastal waters but are substantially influenced by freshwater flows'. Transitional waterbodies were defined from Mean High Water boundaries, taken directly from OS 1:50K MeridianTM 2, and NRW estuarine boundaries defined for the Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive (UWWTD). Since waterbodies are attributed with a unique identifier 'EA_WB_ID' this dataset can be linked dire
ctly to other WFD data sources such as physical characteristics, risk, classification and proposed objectives. These data apply to Cycle 2 of the Water Framework Directive.

    

Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Water Framework Directive (WFD) River Basin Districts Cycle 2

      Water Framework Directive (WFD) River Basin Districts (RBD) is a polygon Shapefile dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Article 2, clause 2 of the WFD defines them as '...the area of land and sea, made up of one or more neighbouring river basins together with their associated groundwaters and coastal waters…'. River Basin Districts have been delineated by using River Catchments as "building blocks" that have been aggregated together within a GIS ensuring that WFD rivers do not intersect boundaries. Coastal and transitional waterbodies are also merged and assigned to a river basin district. River Catchments were delineated through use of flow data and a digital terrain model run
 through a hydrological model. These data apply to Cycle 2 of the Water Framework Directive.

    

Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Better Woodlands for Wales Case Boundaries

      Better Woodlands for Wales (BBW) is the Forestry Commission Wales (FCW) grant scheme designed to meet the Woodland Strategy vision. The vision of the strategy for Wales to be known for its high-quality woodlands that enhance the landscape, are appropriate to local conditions and have a diverse mixture of species and habitats. The BBW scheme has been developed in consultation with woodland owners and their agents as well as our partner organisations. As a result, the new scheme places greater emphasis on good quality woodland management and offers grants specially designed for Welsh woodlands. Grant aid is now based upon an approved long term management plan. This plan must meet the minimum standards under the UK Woodland Assurance Scheme. BWW was closed to new applications in April 2
012.

    

Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Woodland Dedications

      The Dedication woodland Scheme (Basis I and II) was introduced in 1947 in order to encourage landowners to retain their land in forestry and to introduce good forestry practice. Basis III was introduced in 1974, providing grants for new planting and additional supplements for broadleaves. The Dedication Scheme was closed to new applicants in 1981. Land still under Dedication could continue to be within the scheme but Dedication would terminate on a change of ownership. Dedication schemes without a Plan of Operations and therefore receiving no grant, are deemed to be under Negative Covenant.
    

Tags: Land use
Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) Forest Recreation Routes

      The usage, name and grade of the series of recreation segments that link together to form linear recreation features, for example, mountain bike trails.
-  Walking:  Must be promoted as an NRW forest route and have management activity and investment e.g. Nature trail, heritage trail, education trail, forest walk.
-  Cycling:  Must be promoted as an NRW forest route and have management activity and investment e.g. Mountain bike route, road bike, downhill, cross-country, family, rough route.
-  Equestrian:  Must be promoted as an NRW forest route and have management activity and investment e.g. Carriage route, standard.
-  Forest Drive:  Must be promoted as an NRW forest route and have management activity and investment e.g. Toll, Toll free.
-  Running:  Must be promoted as an NRW forest route and have management activity and investment.
-  Huskies:  Must be promoted as an NRW forest route and have management activity and investment.
-  Emergency Services:  Must be an agreed access route for emergency services (Fire, ambulance, mountain rescue).
-  Rally:  Must be an approved rally route.
Other Route Types are further split into Route Subtype; Nature Trail, Sculpture Trail, Heritage Trail, Sensory Trail, Education Trail, Play Trail, Downhill, Cross Country, Family, Carriage Route, Toll, Toll Free, Fire, Ambulance, Mountain Rescue, Forest Walk, Trim Trail, All ability Access Trail, Mountain Bike, Road Bike, Standard, Cross Country Ski, Segway, Other. Where appropriate routes are graded; Easy, Moderate, Difficult; Green - Easy, Blue - Moderate, Red - Difficult, Black - Severe, Orange - Bike Park, Forest road or similar.
    

Tags: Land use
Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) Forest Recreation Areas

      A recreation area feature which is managed and has a physical boundary (e.g. a car park, play area or building). There are a number of Asset Types:
-  Vehicle:  Purpose built and installed NRW asset, or regularly used natural feature, which has management activity and investment e.g. Car park, layby.
-  Visitor area:  Purpose built and installed NRW asset, which has management activity and investment e.g. BBQ area, picnic, education, events, arboretum.
-  Sports:  Purpose built and installed NRW asset (or sub-let), which has management activity and investment e.g. Archery, bike park, ropes course, GoApe.
-  Building:  Purpose built and installed NRW asset, which has management activity and investment e.g. Visitor centre, toilet, cycle hire, catering, shelter.
-  Play:  NRW area designated for play activities, which has management activity and investment e.g. Deb building, play area, paddling.
-  Accommodation:  Purpose built and installed NRW asset, which has management activity and investment e.g. Camp site, cabin site, caravan site, wild camp.
- Ponds/Lakes:  Natural or man-made feature, which has management activity and investment (Natural, fishing, model boats, duck flighting).
-  Concert:  NRW area designated for concert activities, which has management activity and investment (Stage, backstage, viewing area).
Additionally these asset types are expanded on using a range of Asset Subtypes;  Car Park, Layby, BBQ Area, Picnic, Archery, Bike Park, Water Sports, Visitor Centre, Toilet, Cycle Hire, Information Office, Wildlife Hide, Heritage building, Shelter, Den Building, Play Area - Formal, Play Area - Wild, Paddling, Camp Site, Cabin Site, Caravan site, Natural, Fishing, Model Boars, Duck Flighting, Stage, Back stage, Viewing Area, Woodland Bays, Events, Go Ape, Climbing, Education, Ropes courses, Catering, Forest Classroom, Retail Outlet, Arboretum, Memorial Trees, Wild Camp Area.
    

Tags: Land use
Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Traditional Orchards

      This is a spatial dataset contain the location of Traditional Orchards sites around Wales. Traditional orchards are listed as a UK BAP priority habitats, which are those habitats that were identified as being the most threatened and requiring conservation action under the UK Biodiversity Action Plan (UK BAP). Traditional orchards are structurally and ecologically similar to wood-pasture and parkland, with open-grown trees set in herbaceous vegetation, but are generally distinguished from these priority habitat complexes by the following characteristics: the species composition of the trees, these being primarily in the family Rosaceae; the usually denser arrangement of the trees; the small scale of individual habitat patches; the wider dispersion and greater frequency of occurrence o
f habitat patches in the countryside. Traditional orchards include plantings for nuts, principally hazel nuts, but also walnuts. Management of the trees is the other main feature distinguishing traditional orchards and wood-pasture and parkland. Trees in traditional orchards are, or were, grown for fruit and nut production, usually achieved through activities such as grafting and pruning; whereas timber has been the main product from trees in wood-pastures and parkland, mostly derived from pollarding or selective felling. Grazing or cutting of herbaceous vegetation are integral to orchard management, as they are in wood-pastures and parkland.

    

Tags: Agricultural and aquaculture facilities, Habitats and biotopes, Land use
Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) Operational Areas

      This is a spatial datasets containing the extent polygons for the Natural Resources Wales Operational Areas.
This dataset shows the six main operational areas
- North East Wales
- North West Wales
- Mid Wales
- South East Wales
- South West Wales
- South Wales Central
These are also known as the same areas used for Area Statements.
In MyMap this is layer at Operational Layers/Resource Management Terrestrial/NRW Operational Areas It is the post OD (Organisational Design) catchment boundaries for the six NRW Operational Areas (or places). Will be used to ensure enquiries, incidents etc are passed to the correct team and to show geographical areas of teams’ responsibilities.
    

Tags: Administrative units
Organization: Natural Resources Wales
OSPAR River Monitoring Programme

      The Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the North-East Atlantic know as the OSPAR Convention 1998 (Oslo Convention 1972 and Paris Convention 1974), is an agreement signed by a number of European countries (including the United Kingdom) to protect the quality of the North East Atlantic. The objective of the OSPAR Convention is to take all possible steps to prevent and eliminate pollution entering the sea. The OSPAR Convention provides standard methods for estimating the inputs of selected pollutants to the sea by using fixed sampling schedule and a standard input calculation.
In Wales, all principal rivers are sampled monthly (12 times a year) just upstream of their tidal limits. For those rivers carrying the heaviest contaminant loads the sampling frequency maybe increased beyond the minimum of 12. Major trade effluents and sewage effluents to estuaries or coastal waters are also sampled monthly to assess direct discharges to marine waters. Flow values of discharges direct to estuary or sea are sometimes provided by the operators themselves. This is usually part of statutory monitoring arrangements. The aim of these programmes is to assess the level of contamination entering the sea from Wales (the 'load') and to chart the progress in the reduction of this load. This dataset contains the results and data obtained from these programmes.
    

Tags: Environmental monitoring facilities
Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Welsh Permitted Waste Operations

      The EU Waste Framework Directive (2008/98EC) provides the legislative framework for the collection, transport, recovery and disposal of waste. The directive requires all Member States to take the necessary measures to ensure waste is recovered or disposed of without endangering human health or causing harm to the environment and includes permitting, registration and inspection requirement. Article 28 of the Waste Framework Directive specifically requires Member States to publically make available any data relating to waste facilities. Natural Resources Wales (NRW) issue waste permits across Wales to anyone who deals with waste of any kind. This dataset contains details, obtained from the returned permits, of the waste facilities located across Wales. These waste sites are categorised
 into groups with each sub-type of waste site being linked to the overarching category.

    

Tags: Utility and governmental services
Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Water Framework Directive (WFD) Acid Sensitive Waterbodies Cycle 2

      Water Framework Directive (WFD) Acid Sensitive Waterbodies Cycle 2 (2014 - 2019) is a spatial (polygon shapefile) dataset containing attributes that have been collated as defined, for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). To implement the guidance on managing forests in order to minimise adverse impacts in acid-sensitive areas, two categories of acid sensitivity have been identified. These are defined as 'failing due to acidification' and 'at risk of failing due to acidification'.
Water bodies identified as currently 'failing' have been classified through the Water Framework Directive monitoring as being of less than 'good' status and the cause of that failure has been attributed to acidification. The 'at risk of failing' water bodies have been identified, via the findings of the Welsh acidification risk assessment, as being at risk of failing to achieve 'good' status by 2027, due to acid deposition. The risk assessment combines chemical and biological data and an assessment of the environment's ability to neutralise the predicted acid pollutants.
    

Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Water Framework Directive (WFD) Groundwaterbodies Cycle 2

      Water Framework Directive (WFD) Groundwaterbodies Cycle 2 (2014-2019) is a spatial (polygon) dataset which has been created for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Article 2, clause 2 of the WFD defines them as '…all water which is below the surface of the ground in the saturation zone and in direct contact with the ground or subsoil'. For the purposes of reporting under the WFD a groundwater body represent a distinct body of groundwater flow with a coherent flow unit including recharge and discharge areas with little flow across the boundaries. These reflect hydrogeological characteristics containing information on flow and stage properties, recharge and vulnerability to pollution. This has been undertaken through defining aquifers into differ
ent types and broken into catchment units at Catchment Abstraction Management Strategy (CAMS) scale.

    

Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Tranquil Areas Wales

      This data collation is made up of two datasets showing tranquil areas across Wales for 1997 and 2009. A map of the land of Wales, graded to show levels of Tranquillity.  It results from combining several underlying layers of data, covering different factors that either contribute to tranquillity or detract from tranquillity.
Produced to provide a strategic baseline for monitoring change in tranquillity in Wales to inform strategic planning and policy-making.
Tranquillity is an aspect of the Welsh Government's Noise Action Plan (in response to the European Noise Directive) and is one of the qualitative measures of natural resources benefits provided by landscapes, as used in SoNaRR 2016.
An accompanying technical report details the methodology used and provides map images of underlying data layers and the resulting Tranquil Areas Map.
Caveats:
1. The resolution of some layers that informed the map were coarse, meaning that those parts of the data are unsuitable for using at a detailed scale.
2. Tranquillity was not formally defined in the accompanying technical report.  Welsh Government has more recently defined the term and Natural Resources Wales adopted this definition for SoNaRR 2016.  Tranquillity is is an untroubled state, which is peaceful, calm and free from unwanted disturbances. This can refer to a state of mind or a particular environment.
The 2009 dataset repeats more or less the same methodology used for a similar study in 1997.  This allows change over time to be reported.
Other projects in other parts of the UK using data at better resolution and with more sophisticated analysis means that the Wales 1997 and 2009 studies are regarded as crude.  However to date the 2009 study is the most recent Tranquil Areas map available for Wales.
    

Tags: Land use
Organization: Natural Resources Wales
The Wales Outdoor Recreation Survey

      The Welsh Outdoor Recreation Survey (WORS) provides information on participation in a wide range of outdoor activities, from climbing to picnics, which take place in all areas from local parks to mountains and the sea. It also covers people's attitudes towards biodiversity and details any actions they might have taken to help protect the environment. It is the largest survey of public engagement with the environment by people living in Wales.
    

Tags: Land use
Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Water Framework Directive (WFD) Management Catchments Cycle 2

      WFD Management Catchments Cycle 2 is a dataset collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). Management catchments are the unit of geography for which action plans are drafted in implementing the WFD. This process was conducted by using expert judgement in consultation. WFD Management Catchments have an action plan published that relates to all waterbodies that fall within its boundaries. These data apply to Cycle 2 of the Water Framework Directive
    

Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Water Framework Directive (WFD) River Waterbody Catchments Cycle 1

      The 'WFD River Waterbody Catchments' are a polygon Shapefile dataset collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive. Catchments are defined as an area of land from which all surface run-off flows through a series of streams, rivers and, possibly, lakes to a particular point in the water course such as a river confluence. Delineation of the river catchment boundaries primarily utilised the CEH Flow Grid hydrological model run with CEH Integrated Hydrological Digital Terrain Model (IHDTM) data so as to determine water drainage into river stretches. Upstream catchment size was calculated within an ESRI GIS environment using the extension Arc Hydro.
    

Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Water Framework Directive (WFD) River Waterbodies Cycle 1

      WFD River Waterbodies is a polyline Shapefile dataset collated as defined for the implementation of the Water Framework Directive (WFD). The river polylines were defined by using of the Environment Agency - General Quality Assessment (GQA) River Stretches dataset this is copied directly from the CEH 1:50K River Network with some additional stretches added in by the Environment Agency. Additional stretches were added to cover all stretches designated under the Fresh Water Fish Directive, all stretches designated within riverine SSSIs, and ensuring that all riverine abstractions which contributed to the designation of a Drinking Water Protected Area were sited on a designated river waterbody. In addition to this, some stretches were added where the upstream catchment size was > 10km
2, but no other river stretch was designated (10km2 was the original cut-off catchment size form defining a waterbody under the WFD). The resultant WFD river waterbody datasets is a sub-set of the CEH network, including only stretches that meet any of the criteria outlined above.WFD River waterbodies share the same 'EA_WB_ID' as their river waterbody catchment allowing these 2 datasets to be linked. All river waterbodies are associated with a waterbody catchment. Not all catchments have a designated WFD river waterbody within them. These data apply to Cycle 1 of the Water Framework Directive. The equivalent layer for Cycle 2 is covered by WFD River Waterbodies Cycle 2 AfA292.

    

Tags: Hydrography
Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Natural Resources Wales (NRW) Forest Recreation points

      This is a dataset of physical recreation feature on the ground best depicted as point features.. These features a divided into eight Categories.
- Signage - signs, information and navigational aids, which have management activity and investment (e.g. trailhead, waymarker, information board)
- Built feature - Purpose built and installed NRW asset, which has management activity and investment (e.g. Gate, stile, bin, barrier)
- Forest furniture - Purpose built and installed NRW asset, which has management activity and investment (e.g. Bench, seat, picnic table). Exercise - Purpose built and installed NRW asset, which has management activity and investment (e.g. Activity point).
- Play equipment - Purpose built and installed NRW asset, which has management activity and investment (e.g. Play component, structure).
- Viewpoint - A feature which has management activity and investment. Art feature - Purpose built and installed NRW asset or agreed feature, which has management activity and investment (e.g. Art work, sculpture).
- Forest entrance - Regularly used feature to gain access to the forest/FE estate (e.g. Car park or layby access point).
- Miscellaneous - Features which do not fall into one of the existing feature types, but required to be captured for management purposes.
Within each Category there are a number of Asset types and Asset Subtypes.
    

Tags: Land use
Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Working with Natural Processes (WWNP) in Wales: Floodplain Woodland Planting Potential

      Working with Natural Processes (WWNP) Floodplain Woodland Planting Potential is our best estimate of locations where tree planting on the floodplain may be possible, and effective to attenuate flooding. The dataset is designed to support signposting of areas of floodplain not already wooded. Natural Resources Wales (NRW) also has access to some Environment Agency data which we are licenced to have as part of our data exchange agreement.
    

Tags: Land use
Organization: Natural Resources Wales
Working with Natural Processes (WWNP) in Wales: Riparian Woodland Potential

      Working with Natural Processes (WWNP) Riparian Woodland Potential is our best estimate of locations where tree planting may be possible on smaller floodplains close to flow pathways, and effective to attenuate flooding. The dataset is designed to support signposting of riparian areas not already wooded. The dataset is based upon a 50m buffer of available OS Open Data river networks. A set of open access constraints data was used to erase areas which contained existing woodland, watercourses, peat, roads, rail and urban locations.
    

Tags: Land use
Organization: Natural Resources Wales