AndreaBozzo/ceres-open-data-index huggingface dataset:
GCN Strategic Opportunity Areas (Cheshire)

This dataset identifies areas where the addition of new ponds would benefit Great Crested Newt (GCN) populations. * The core areas contain a pond density of 2 ponds and are located within a 1km square where GCN presence has been predicted. * Fringe areas contain a pond density of 1 and are located within a 1km square where GCN presence has been predicted or are within a 250m of a Core Area. Higher scores are associated with darker colouration and represent a greater presence of suitable habitat features such as grassland (? buffer), woodland (? buffer), and within 100m-1000m range of a river. These suitable habitat features have been given a score of ?1? and where more of these features overlap, there is a higher score. Arable land is also included but has been given a score of ?-1?. Urban areas greater than 2ha (? buffer), roads (7.5m), rivers (7.5m) have been excluded. Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].
Moorland Change Map (England) 2022-2023

The Moorland Change Map (MCM) is a vector dataset which shows whether the heather dominant uplands being monitored contain change during the period of monitoring. Approximately monitoring covers the moorland burning season of Oct to Apr. The MCM is an earth observation derived product, using the Sentinel-2 satellites. Validation of the the results happens for each year per upland and Nationally. The validation shows the accuracy of the MCM results. Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].
Moorland Change Map (England) 2017-2018

The Moorland Change Map (MCM) is a vector dataset which shows whether the heather dominant uplands being monitored contain change during the period of monitoring. Approximately monitoring covers the moorland burning season of Oct to Apr. The MCM is an earth observation derived product, using the Sentinel-2 satellites. Validation of the the results happens for each year per upland and Nationally. The validation shows the accuracy of the MCM results. Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].
Moorland Change Map (England) 2019-2020

The Moorland Change Map (MCM) is a vector dataset which shows whether the heather dominant uplands being monitored contain change during the period of monitoring. Approximately monitoring covers the moorland burning season of Oct to Apr. The MCM is an earth observation derived product, using the Sentinel-2 satellites. Validation of the the results happens for each year per upland and Nationally. The validation shows the accuracy of the MCM results. Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].
GCN Strategic Opportunity Areas (Kent)

This dataset identifies areas where the addition of new ponds would benefit Great Crested Newt populations. * The core areas contain a pond density of 2+ ponds and are located within a 1km square where great crested newt presence has been predicted. * Fringe areas contain a pond density of 1 and are located within a 1km square where great crested newt presence has been predicted or are within a 250m of a Core Area. * Higher scores are associated with darker colouration and represent a greater presence of suitable habitat features such as grassland (+250m buffer), woodland (+250m buffer), and within 100m-1000m range of a river. These suitable habitat features have been given a score of ‘1’ and where more of these features overlap, there is a higher score. * Arable land is also included but has been given a score of ‘-1’. * Urban areas greater than 2ha (+400m buffer), roads (7.5m buffer) and rivers (+7.5m) have been excluded. Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].
GCN Strategic Opportunity Areas (Norfolk and Suffolk)

This dataset identifies areas where the addition of new ponds would benefit Great Crested Newt populations. * The core areas contain a pond density of 2+ ponds and are located within a 1km square where great crested newt presence has been predicted. * Fringe areas contain a pond density of 1 and are located within a 1km square where great crested newt presence has been predicted or are within a 250m of a Core Area. * Higher scores are associated with darker colouration and represent a greater presence of suitable habitat features: Distance from a River 200-2000m; Soil pH 6.5 – 7.5; Soil Phosphorus 35 -45 mg kg-1; Arable Density < 33%; Distance from Grassland <100m; Grassland Density 10 -40%; Distance from Woodland < 100m. These suitable habitat features have been given a score of ‘1’. * Urban areas > 2ha (+400m buffer), roads (7.5m), rivers (7.5m) and Environment Agency Flood Zone 2 have been excluded. Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk]. Data used to generate this derived data set includes the 2015 CEH Land Cover map (woodland, grassland,urban and arable land classifications), OS MasterMap (pond locations that have been converted by NE into pond densities), Natural Capital Soil pH and Phosphorus, Cranfield University Soils Data, Natural Engalnd GCN Class License Survey Returns England, Natural England GCN Pond Surveys DLL 17 18 19, OS Open Rivers, OS Open Roads, Environment Agency Flood Map - Flood Zone 2, OS Boundary Line District Boundaries, GCN data collated and provided by Norfolk Biodiversity Information Service and Allocations data from Nofolk County Council, Breckland District Council, Broadland District Council, South Norfolk District Council, Norwich City council, Kings Lynn & West Norfolk Borough Council, Great Yarmout, North Norfolk Council, Suffolk County Council, Suffolk Coastal District Council, Babergh District Council, Mid Suffolk District Council, Ipswich Council, The Broads National Park, West Suffolk council and Waveney District Council. Soil pH: Henrys, P.A.; Keith, A.M.; Robinson, D.A.; Emmett, B.A. (2012). Model estimates of topsoil pH and bulk density [Countryside Survey]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre Soil Phosphorus: Henrys, P.A.; Keith, A.M.; Robinson, D.A.; Emmett, B.A. (2012). Model estimates of topsoil nutrients [Countryside Survey]. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre DOI for LCM2015 25m raster data for Great Britain: Rowland, C.S.; Morton, R.D.; Carrasco, L.; McShane, G.; O’Neil, A.W.; Wood, C.M. (2017) Land Cover Map 2015 (25m raster, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. [https://doi.org/10.5285/bb15e200-9349-403c-bda9-b430093807c7] DOI for LCM2015 Vector data for Great Britain: Rowland, C.S.; Morton, R.D.; Carrasco, L.; McShane, G.; O’Neil, A.W.; Wood, C.M. (2017) Land Cover Map 2015 (vector, GB). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. [https://doi.org/10.5285/6c6c9203-7333-4d96-88ab-78925e7a4e73]
Long Term Monitoring Network Soils Monitoring Plots (England)

There are thirty seven sites in the LTMN project, each having fifty permanent vegetation monitoring plots and five permanent soils monitoring plots. For the soils plots, the five 20m x 20m squares are marked with a point in each corner. These points have been collected using GPS, often high-accuracy GPS, by the LTMN team and for some sites, contractors employed by LTMN. We are providing two datasets, one for the vegetation monitoring plots and the other for the soils plots, which would be ideally separate layers or possibly combined into one layer - but if the latter the vegetation and soils must have different symbology. This points data is kept by the LTMN team, for all sites and survey years, and is updated each time a site has a vegetation or soils survey. Nowadays the points co-ordinates do not change much, as they have been mostly captured with high-accuracy GPS, and we will only occasionally need to update these two layers. Attribute Descriptions: ──────────────────┬──────────────────┬─────────────┬─────────────────────────────────── Column Heading │Full Name │Format │Description ──────────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── LTMN_site_name │LTMN_site_name │Text │Name of the LTMN site ──────────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── Plot_corner_label │Plot_corner_label │Text │Label for the soils plot corner ──────────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── Soils_plot_no │Soils_plot_no │Text │Soils plot number ──────────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── Vegetation_plot_no│Vegetation_plot_no│Text │Associated vegetation plot number ──────────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── Easting │Easting │Long integers│Easting of soils plot corner ──────────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── Northing │Northing │Long integers│Northing of soils plot corner ──────────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── Grid_reference │Grid_reference │Text │Grid reference of soils plot corner ──────────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── Latitude │Latitude │Double │Latitude of soils plot corner ──────────────────┼──────────────────┼─────────────┼─────────────────────────────────── Longitude │Longitude │Double │Longitude of soils plot corner ──────────────────┴──────────────────┴─────────────┴─────────────────────────────────── Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk]
Long Term Monitoring Network Vegetation Monitoring Plots (England)

There are thirty seven sites in the LTMN project, each having fifty permanent vegetation monitoring plots and five permanent soils monitoring plots. For the vegetation monitoring plots, the fifty 2m x 2m squares are marked with a single point in the south-west corner of the square. These points have been collected using GPS, often high-accuracy GPS, by the LTMN team and for some sites, contractors employed by LTMN. We are providing two datasets, one for the vegetation monitoring plots and the other for the soils plots, which would be ideally separate layers or possibly combined into one layer - but if the latter the vegetation and soils must have different symbology. This points data is kept by the LTMN team, for all sites and survey years, and is updated each time a site has a vegetation or soils survey. Nowadays the points co-ordinates do not change much, as they have been mostly captured with high-accuracy GPS, and we will only occasionally need to update these two layers. Attribute descriptions: ──────────────────────┬──────────────────────┬──────┬────────────────────────────────────── Column Heading │Full Name │Format│Description ──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────────────── LTMN_site_name │LTMN_site_name │Text │Name of the site ──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────────────── Vegetation_plot_number│Vegetation_plot_number│Text │Number of the monitoring plot ──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────────────── Easting │Easting │Double│Easting of the permanent marker ──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────────────── Northing │Northing │Double│Northing of the permanent marker ──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────────────── Grid_reference │Grid_reference │Text │Grid_reference of the permanent marker ──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────────────── Latitude │Latitude │Double│Latitude of the permanent marker ──────────────────────┼──────────────────────┼──────┼────────────────────────────────────── Longitude │Longitude │Double│Longitude of the permanent marker ──────────────────────┴──────────────────────┴──────┴────────────────────────────────────── Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk]
OS Priority Ponds with Survey data (England)

The data shows Ordnance Survey pond locations, where they match with the surveyed location of a priority habitat pond. The location and attributes of these priority habitat ponds does not currently exists for end users, ecologists, community groups and other stakeholders. The layer will be used to identify, conserve and enhance these features. OS Ponds (taken from the MasterMap Topography layer hydrology>static water) that have a matching pond survey (Clean Water for Wildlife of Priority Ponds) (see data within this folder for these layers) within their geometry, or within 30m of their edge. proximity was created (using NEAR tool) for points and then simplified (to remove 1 to many relationship) and joined to OS polygons using FID unique value. Unnecessary OS fields have been deleted. This data was created using data from Clean Water for Wildlife of Priority Ponds [Clean Water for Wildlife - Freshwater Habitats Trust] under a CC-BY licence with OS MasterMap data under the PSGA licence. It is published by Natural England under the [Non-Commercial Government Licence] due to the quantity of OS data contained within it. Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].
Catchment Sensitive Farming Air Quality Priority Areas (England)

This is a spatial dataset that describes the priority areas for delivery of air quality advice from Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF). This uses data created for the Nitrogen Futures project and data derived by JNCC summarising CEH critical load and critical levels data applied to SSSIs. The data shows those SSSIs where the critical load for nitrogen deposition and/or the critical level for ammonia are being exceeded. A 2km buffer has been applied around each site. The following sites have a 5km buffer to correspond with the area covered by the Shared Nitrogen Action Plan (SNAP) for the site: Fenn’s & Whixall Moss, Breckland, Epping Forest, Sefton Coast, Braunton Burrows. This dataset is the combined area covered by a number of input datasets, each representing relative risk of ammonia pollution to SSSI sites. These input data have been dissolved into a single polygon to represent the highest priority areas for CSFO advice to farmers on mitigating air quality issues. Datasets used: * Modelled ammonia concentrations – 1x1 km resolution (UKCEH, 2022) (OGL) * Site-relevant critical levels for exposure to Ammonia (UKCEH, 2017) (OGL) * SSSI spatial boundaries (Natural England, 2021) (OGL) * Critical load exceedances for Nitrogen - SSSI values (APIS Partners, 2019) (OGL) * Critical load exceedances for Nitrogen - SSSI boundaries (Natural England, 2019) (OGL) Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].
Traditional Orchards HAP (England)

This is a spatial dataset that describes the geographic extent and location of the UK Biodiversity Action Plan traditional orchard priority habitat in England. For the purpose of the inventory, traditional orchards are defined as sites where at least five fruit trees must be present with no more than 20m between their crown edges. Traditional orchards are managed in a low intensity way with the orchard floor grazed or mown for hay and with little or no chemical input. Priority habitats are those which have been deemed to be of principal importance for the purpose of conserving biodiversity, being listed in the UK Biodiversity Action Plan, and with maintenance and restoration of these habitats being promoted through agri-environment schemes. The Traditional Orchards Inventory provides a baseline to enable future changes to be measured; and identify priorities for future conservation actions. This dataset has been derived using aerial photography, Ordnance Survey MasterMap, external datasets compiled from historic surveys, and ground survey (“ground-truthing”). Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].
CRoW Act 2000 - Section 4 Conclusive Registered Common Land

Shows land mapped as Conclusive Registered Common Land under [The Countryside and Rights of Way 2000 (CRoW) Act]. The CRoW Act gives the public right of access to land mapped as 'open country' (mountain, moor, heath and down) or registered common land. These areas are known as 'open access land'. Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].
Legacy Countryside Stewardship Scheme Agreements (England) - closed scheme

Former Countryside Stewardship Scheme live agreements holding boundaries data as at scheme closure in 2014. This Natural England dataset is static and does not include up to date information relating to the Countryside Stewardship Scheme. This scheme is now closed to new applicants. The Countryside Stewardship Scheme was originally an agri-environment scheme run by the United Kingdom Government set up in 1991. In its original form it expired in 2014 and has now fully expired. It was relaunched for the Rural Development Programme England (RDPE) 2014-2020 with £3.1bn of government subsidy for agriculture and forestry, as the Countryside Stewardship Scheme 2016. Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].
National Parks (England)

National Parks are run by National Park Authorities for the purpose of conserving and enhancing the natural beauty, wildlife and cultural heritage and to provide opportunities for the understanding and enjoyment of the Park by the public. Alterations: Yorkshire Dales and Lake District National Park (Designation) boundaries modified 1st August 2016. South Downs National Park (Designation) modified on 2nd June 2010. Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].
Natural England National Priority Focus Areas

Natural England's focus areas for each Area Team. The focus areas are typically where Natural England (NE) are targeting more than one delivery programme. So these areas are the key opportunities for Natural England to integrate its delivery to achieve better outcomes. The focus areas are the best picture NE have about where we need to concentrate effort in order to achieve our biodiversity, landscape, access, engagement and other land management objectives. They show where we currently focus more effort. The focus areas are also the best overview we have of future priorities, but this is not yet a perfect picture. We expect this map to evolve. The focus areas are not intended to represent the views or priorities of all the organisations which contribute to natural environment outcomes. However, we have taken account of other Defra partners‟ delivery programmes and also those of some other key partners. We want to have more discussions with partners and stakeholders to hear whether our local delivery offer makes sense in the context of what we are all jointly trying to achieve. The focus areas are a broad guide as to where we anticipate focusing more effort in future; but it should not be interpreted too precisely. We can adjust boundaries locally as makes sense to our delivery programmes or customers. The focus areas capture the majority of our geographically targeted work and especially where different programmes overlap, but each programme will continue to target some of its delivery elsewhere. We want to focus proportionately more of our resource in focus areas and Nature Improvement Areas (NIAs) over time, to maximise the benefits of our limited resource, and make a big difference in certain places, rather than not enough difference everywhere. This is a strong steer, but not a moratorium on projects that are outside focus areas. Small scale investment outside the focus areas, which act as a catalyst or lever for others‟ investment, may be legitimate. We have limited this approach to our terrestrial delivery at the moment. However, we have included many coastal stretches and have taken particular account of where the coast abuts a potential marine designation, to encourage integration with our marine work and to take account of the links with offshore processes such as sediment flow. While the current priority for marine work is the site designation process, we would aspire to develop marine spatial priorities over time. Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].
Potential Special Protection Areas (England)

These are potential site boundaries. Please note that as a result of the consultation there may be minor changes to the final boundary of the site once classified. A Special Protection Area (SPA) is the land designated under Directive 2009/147/EC on the Conservation of Wild Birds. Special Protection Areas (SPAs) are strictly protected sites classified in accordance with Article 4 of the EC Birds Directive, which came into force in April 1979. They are classified for rare and vulnerable birds (as listed on Annex I of the Directive), and for regularly occurring migratory species. Data supplied has the status "Potential". Boundaries are mapped against Ordnance Survey MasterMap. Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].
National Historic Landscape Characterisation 250m Grid (England)

The NHLC can support in identifying the location and extent of priority historic character types and characteristics. The data is extracted from a dataset of merged sub-regional HLCs. This merged data has then been processed to generalise the data into 250m grid squares, removing the original polygon boundaries. More info about this Science and Research project can be found [here]. Full metadata can be viewed on [data.gov.uk].