tNCEA - Developing Resources and Infrastructure for Citizen Science

Description

The Natural Capital & Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) Programme   NCEA is a transformative programme to understand the extent, condition and change over time of environmental assets across England's land and water environments (including marine), supporting the government’s ambition to improve the environment within a generation. Built on data amassed from across England’s natural environment; NCEA aims to deliver a robust framework of statistics that facilitate landscape-level intelligence. It would manage and maintain vital, accurate, high quality and up to date information from source to delivery as part of a multi-year, multi-million-pound technology programme to enable macro and micro views of our environment. Using satellite earth observation, professional surveyors, citizen scientists, membership organisations and legacy data, NCEA will build a highly detailed bank of assessments and integrated datasets covering ecological