In September 2015 we made our extensive archive of LIDAR digital elevation models (DTM – digital terrain models; and DSM – digital surface models) covering over three quarters of England, available as open data. Since then, businesses, local communities and …
This week we have published a collection of datasets from the National Food Survey from 1974-2000, as open data. This rich data collection is comprised of food diary records from approximately 150,000 households across the 70s, 80s and 90s, who were …
Today, as part of the #OpenDefra campaign; the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) published the second batch of marine data under an Open Government Licence on data.gov.uk. The number of datasets now released by JNCC has topped 1000, meeting our …
I’m Emily Miles and along with joining Defra in November as the Group Director of Strategy, I’ve just become the Senior Responsible Officer for the Defra Data Programme. I'm not especially a technical person. I did arts A levels and …
Earth Observation (EO) is transforming our understanding of land use and the environment, and how they are changing, by harnessing the possibilities of the new data becoming available via satellites and other new technologies. The Event Around 170 people from …
At Natural England we and our predecessors have been mapping and classifying the use of agricultural land since 1966. The Agricultural Land Classification (ALC) data is used primarily to enable us, developers and planners to assess the impact developments will …
To deliver Defra’s new strategy we will make Defra data driven. We will do this because sharing our data, ways of working and technology will drive better results for Defra and the sectors we care about. The Environment Secretary is …
Flood defences have been in the news this winter. We’re pleased to announce that in response to this we have brought forward our #OpenDefra plans to release a key flood defence dataset as open data from 1 April to today. …
We have been monitoring air quality for decades and have millions of records for a whole host of pollutants measured across the UK. The data has been available from UK-AIR for many years and the appetite for accessing the data just …
Our team is making progress towards publishing Family Food Data for 1974-2000. We have put together all the data and supporting reference tables into tab separated format. The next challenge we face is to make sure the data is safe …