Space for Smarter Government Environmental Monitoring 21 st March 2014 Environmental Observations Vital source of information from global to local scale for understanding and managing our changing environment ID: 1045620
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1. Environmental Monitoring ChallengesSpace for Smarter Government: Environmental Monitoring21st March 2014
2. Environmental ObservationsVital source of information from global to local scale for:understanding and managing our changing environment guiding current and future policy, science and innovation economic benefit and quality of life
3. UKEOF Observation CatalogueOnline searchable databaseHolds information on who is doing what, where and why, of over 1200 activitiesOnly UK overview of environmental observationsNew catalogue – demo at lunch
4. What is being observed?Nearly half of the observations in the catalogue monitor the biosphereMany observations fall under more than one environmental domainNB record may be programme or activity (approximately 20% are programmes 75% activities)
5. Why are they being observed?Many are undertaken for more than one purposeBut some 200 are only collected for legislative/ statutory reasons
6. Who are making the observations?And funding around the same proportionLeadOrganisationThe public sector is leading on around 50% of the recordsFunding OrganisationNB record may be programme or activity (approximately 20% are programmes 75% activities)
7. How long have observations been running?78 running for over 50 years of which 29 for over 100 yearsLongest running are recording schemes or public engagement type activitiesNot all of the observations are still on-goingNo. records
8. Complex monitoring landscapeDiverse array of monitoring activities across the environmental domains, some that have been on-going for long periods of timeActivities serve many purposesLarge number of organisations involved in both funding and delivering the observations
9. The ChallengeIncreased drive for efficiency in evidence gathering, but recognising:Legislative requirementsDifferent solutions required for diverse needsNeed for compatibility with long term activitiesComplexity of organisations involved
10. Meeting the challengesNew technologies e.g.Environmental DNANew instrumentationSatellite imageryOther satellite applications
11. Meeting the challengesNew approachesRapid increase in the number of citizen science projectsCombining approaches e.g. Cropland capture: using citizen scientists to look at satellite images of the Earth’s surface and note whether they see cropland in the image or not
12. Meeting the challengesPartnershipsIdentifying where there is value working togetherMaking best use of current partnershipsLooking to other sectors
13. Questions?