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Soil erosion assessment data from the Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Evaluation Programme, Wales, 2021-2023

This dataset consists of polygon and polyline layers containing categorised soil erosion and disturbance features collected as part of the Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP) National Field Survey (NFS) between 2021-2023. Data include extent and categorised type of soil erosion and disturbance (SED) features from a desk-based survey of aerial imagery and mapped by field surveyors between 2021-2023. This dataset also includes a raster map of the primary groups of controls on SED feature density in Wales. ERAMMP NFS is a resurvey of all of the 300 locations from the initial Glastir Monitoring and Evaluation Programme (GMEP) monitoring program (300 1km squares) on a rolling annual basis, with the aim to resurvey all sites between 2021 and 2025. SED features were identified from aerial images of 261 squares. Between 2021-2023 ERAMMP NFS field surveyors surveyed zones within 225 squares for SED features. The initial monitoring program, GMEP, was set up by the Welsh Government in 2013 to report national trends and monitor the effects of the Glastir agri-environment scheme on the environment and ran from 2013 to 2016. The field survey element was based on a stratified random sampling design of 300 x 1km square sites across Wales, and was managed by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/b7003a63-dc97-4044-9201-ccc5d8deffa6

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Date (Publication)
2026-02-05
Date (Creation)
2026-01-31
Citation identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/b7003a63-dc97-4044-9201-ccc5d8deffa6
Citation identifier
doi: / 10.5285/b7003a63-dc97-4044-9201-ccc5d8deffa6
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Feeney, C., Tye, A., Robinson, D., Lucas, J.R., Monkman, G., Reinsch, S., Richardson-Jones, V., Wood, C.M., Dhiedt, E., Horninge, L., Maskell, L.C., Moir, A., Norton, L.R., O'Neil, A., Roberts, M., Savage, C., Sayer, H., Williams, B., Emmett, B.A. (2026). Soil erosion assessment data from the Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Evaluation Programme, Wales, 2021-2023. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/b7003a63-dc97-4044-9201-ccc5d8deffa6

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Organisation name Individual name Electronic mail address Role
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Feeney, C.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author
British Geological Survey Tye, A.

atye@bgs.ac.uk

Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Robinson, D.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Lucas, J.R.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Monkman, G.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Reinsch, S.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Richardson-Jones, V.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Wood, C.M.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Dhiedt, E.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author
National Trust for Scotland

Horninge, L.

l.s.horninge@gmail.com

Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Maskell, L.C.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

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British Geological Survey

Moir, A.

amoir@bgs.ac.uk

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UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Norton, L.R.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology O'Neil, A.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author

Unaffiliated

Roberts, M.

nantlle@hotmail.co.uk

Author

Unaffiliated

Savage, C.

claresavage@protonmail.com

Author

Unaffiliated

Sayer, H.

hsayer89@hotmail.co.uk

Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Williams, B.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology Emmett, B.A.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Author
Welsh Government

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Owner
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology

Feeney, F.

enquiries@ceh.ac.uk

Point of contact
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

info@eidc.ac.uk

Publisher
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

info@eidc.ac.uk

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GEMET - Concepts, version 4.1.3

  • soil erosion

GeoNames

  • Wales
Keywords
  • Environmental survey
  • Soil
  • Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Modelling Programme (ERAMMP)

  • soil disturbance

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This resource is available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
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Climate hydrology and ecology research support system meteorology dataset for Great Britain (1961-2017) [CHESS-met] data licensed from UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. © Database Right/Copyright UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. All rights reserved. Contains material based on Met Éireann data © Met Éireann, Met Office and OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2017 and University of East Anglia Climatic Research Unit © CRU Land Cover Map 2021 (25m rasterised land parcels, GB) [Dataset]: Data owned by UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology © Database Right/Copyright UKCEH NEXTMap Britain digital terrain model by Intermap [Dataset]. © 2009 Intermap Technologies Inc. All rights reserved. OS British National Grids [Dataset]: Licensed under the terms of the Open Government Licence (OGL) v3.0. Contains National Statistics data © Crown copyright and database right 2019. Contains OS data © Crown copyright and database right 2019. Uses NEXTMap Britain digital terrain model by Intermap. © 2009 Intermap Technologies Inc. All rights reserved.

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© Crown copyright: Welsh Government licenced under the Open Government Licence v3.0 © Hawlfraint y Goron: Llywodraeth Cymru Mae'r holl gynnwys ar gael dan Drwydded Llywodraeth Agored v3.0

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For the avoidance of doubt, if the publication of the Licensed Data is not within Wales, the Welsh form of the acknowledgement wording is not required.

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If you reuse this data, you should cite: Feeney, C., Tye, A., Robinson, D., Lucas, J.R., Monkman, G., Reinsch, S., Richardson-Jones, V., Wood, C.M., Dhiedt, E., Horninge, L., Maskell, L.C., Moir, A., Norton, L.R., O'Neil, A., Roberts, M., Savage, C., Sayer, H., Williams, B., Emmett, B.A. (2026). Soil erosion assessment data from the Environment and Rural Affairs Monitoring & Evaluation Programme, Wales, 2021-2023. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/b7003a63-dc97-4044-9201-ccc5d8deffa6

Spatial representation type
TIN
Distance
10  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Language
English
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Environment
  • Geoscientific information
Begin date
2021-01-01
End date
2023-12-31
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OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

info@eidc.ac.uk

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/data/b7003a63-dc97-4044-9201-ccc5d8deffa6

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https://data-package.ceh.ac.uk/sd/b7003a63-dc97-4044-9201-ccc5d8deffa6.zip

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dataset

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Title

Commission Regulation (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services

Date (Publication)
2010-12-08
Statement

A desk-based survey of soil erosion and disturbance (SED) features was carried out using aerial photographs of 261 1km survey squares in 2021-22. SED features were recorded during a field survey of 225 squares by field surveyors using electronic data capture devices in the summers of 2021-2023. 1km survey squares were sited across Wales, selected by random stratified sample. The survey was managed by the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. Standardised methodologies were applied throughout. To ensure confidentiality of the data with respect to land owners and managers, the locations of 1km squares and survey sites were converted to the centres of the containing 10km Ordnance Survey grid squares.

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b7003a63-dc97-4044-9201-ccc5d8deffa6 XML
Metadata language
English
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8859 Part 1
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Dataset
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dataset

Date stamp
2026-02-13T10:51:08
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
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2.3

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NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre

info@eidc.ac.uk

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