Identification

Title

UKEOF Environmental Observation Activity Catalogue

Abstract

The UK Environmental Observation Framework (UKEOF) works to improve coordination of the observational evidence needed to understand and manage the changing natural environment. It is a partnership of public sector organisations with an interest in using and providing evidence from environmental observations. UKEOF coordinates the Environmental Observation Activity Catalogue, which aims to hold information on all of the environmental observations undertaken by or for the UK by the public sector. The catalogue also holds metadata on a number of voluntary organisations observation programmes and has the potential to include observations made by private organisations. The catalogue currently contains a list of over 1200 observations which involve over 200 organisations. UKEOF works closely with UKDMOS who provide information about all UK marine monitoring activities for inclusion which ensures a full suite of environmental observations can be explored.

Resource type

dataset

Resource locator

http://catalogue.ukeof.org.uk/

name: UKEOF Environmental Observation Activity Catalogue

http://www.ukeof.org.uk/

name: Further information about the UK Environmental Observation Framework (UKEOF)

function: information

Unique resource identifier

code

1387295505544

codeSpace

UKEOF

Dataset language

eng

Spatial reference system

code identifying the spatial reference system

Classification of spatial data and services

Topic category

environment

Keywords

Keyword set

keyword value

Environmental monitoring facilities

originating controlled vocabulary

title

reference date

date type

publication

effective date

2008-06-01

Keyword set

keyword value

United Kingdom Environmental Observation Framework

UKEOF

Defra

NERC

Natural Environment Research Council

Joint Nature Conservation Committee

JNCC

Natural England

Natural Resources Wales

Department of Energy & Climate Change

DECC

Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs

Economic and Social Research Council

ESRC

Environment Agency

EA

FC

Forestry Commission

Living With Environmental Change

LWEC

Met Office

NE

Scottish Environment Protection Agency

SEPA

Scottish Government

Scottish Natural Heritage

SNH

UK Space Agency

UKSA

Welsh Government

Welsh Environment Research Hub

environment

observations

monitoring

Geographic location

West bounding longitude

-8.648393

East bounding longitude

1.767549

North bounding latitude

60.86099

South bounding latitude

49.86382

Extent

Extent group

authority code

code identifying the extent

GB

Temporal reference

Temporal extent

Begin position

2001-01-01

End position

Dataset reference date

date type

creation

effective date

2009-07-01

Frequency of update

asNeeded

Quality and validity

Lineage

Information contained in the catalogue originally came from the 2006 ERFF Monitoring Questionnaire. In 2009 the 13 major UK-EOF sponsors updated their information, it was translated into a database and a search facility made available online. In 2010 a wide scale update was undertaken. Over 100 organisations were asked to check add and/ or update their catalogue records. Information contained within the JNCC Terrestrial Surveillance Monitoring Database and the UK Directory of Marine Observing Systems (UKDMOS) was also incorporated. As of August 2011, the catalogue holds information about 1150 programmes, activities and data sources.

Conformity

Data format

name of format

not specified

version of format

unknown

Constraints related to access and use

Constraint set

Use constraints

Please cite UK Environmental Observation Framework (UKEOF) Catalogue if reusing this data

Limitations on public access

Metadata about environmental observation activities is publicly available. There may be some access restriction to certain monitoring sites for purposes of security and confidentiality

Responsible organisations

Responsible party

organisation name

United Kingdom Environmental Observation Framework (UKEOF)

full postal address

Polaris House, North Star Avenue

Swindon

SN2 1EU

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44.1793 411513

email address

office@ukeof.org.uk

web address

http://www.ukeof.org.uk/

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata on metadata

Metadata point of contact

organisation name

United Kingdom Environmental Observation Framework (UKEOF)

full postal address

Polaris House, North Star Avenue

Swindon

SN2 1EU

United Kingdom

telephone number

+44.1793 411513

email address

office@ukeof.org.uk

web address

http://www.ukeof.org.uk/

responsible party role

pointOfContact

Metadata date

2013-12-17

Metadata language