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• Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI): JNCC Sentinel-2 indices Analysis Ready Data (ARD)

  NDVI is a widely used index which quantifies vegetation greenness and can provide an indication of vegetation health and vegetation density. It is calculated as the ratio between the near-infrared...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 14 March 2025

• Normalised Difference Moisture Index (NDMI): JNCC Sentinel-2 indices Analysis Ready Data (ARD)

  NDMI can be used to assess vegetation moisture content, and is calculated as the ratio between the near-infrared (NIR) and short-wave infrared (SWIR) bands. It is commonly used to assess water...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 14 March 2025

• Normalised Burn Ratio (NBR): JNCC Sentinel-2 indices Analysis Ready Data (ARD)

  NBR enables identification of burned areas and can also provide an indication of burn severity. It is calculated as the ratio between the near-infrared (NIR) and short-wave infrared (SWIR) bands,...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 14 March 2025

• VH/VV Cross Ratio: JNCC Sentinel-1 indices Analysis Ready Data (ARD)

  The VH/VV Sentinel-1 cross ratio highlights volume scattering and can be used to infer structural information about a landscape and provide insights into vegetation water content (Vreugdenhil et...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 28 February 2025

• JNCC Sentinel-1 indices Analysis Ready Data (ARD)

  These data have been created by the Joint Nature Conservation Committee (JNCC) as part of the “Earth observation-based habitat condition change detection” project. This project is funded by the...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 28 February 2025

• Normalised Difference Water Index (NDWI): JNCC Sentinel-2 indices Analysis Ready Data (ARD)

  NDWI is used to identify water bodies and detect changes in their extent. It is calculated as the ratio of the green and near-infrared (NIR) bands. Positive index values generally indicate the...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 14 March 2025

• Enhanced Vegetation Index 2 (EVI2): JNCC Sentinel-2 indices Analysis Ready Data (ARD)

  EVI2 (Jiang et al., 2008) is computed using the near-infrared (NIR) and red bands. While the majority of EVI2 data falls within the range of -1 to +1, some values may exceed +1. These are...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 14 March 2025

• 2012 Natural England/JNCC Fal and Helford SAC kelp forest condition assessment and maerl studies

  Survey name: 2012 Natural England/JNCC Fal and Helford SAC kelp forest condition assessment and maerl studies This is a collation of surveys to gather data and evidence from a variety of marine...

  • Published by: Natural England

• Review of monitoring biodiversity effectively at differing scales

  This report aims to provide guidance for developing coordinated, multi-scale biodiversity monitoring, based on approaches that have been undertaken previously. The report begins by highlighting the...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 1 January 2024

• 25 Year Environment Plan Outcome Indicator E7: Healthy soils – Progress report

  Healthy soils are critical for the delivery of ecosystem services such as food production, water regulation, biodiversity support, and carbon storage. Maintaining soil health is crucial for soils...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 31 March 2024

• 25 Year Environment Plan Outcome Indicator E7: Healthy soils – proposed method for a soil health indicator for England

  This report outlines a proposed method for a soil health indicator for England. It is planned that this method will be used to produce results for use against the 25 Year Environment Plan’s Outcome...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 31 March 2025

• Setting biodiversity monitoring objectives

  Clear monitoring objectives are essential to ensure the effectiveness of any biodiversity monitoring process. Clear objectives ensure the collection of relevant data, resource allocation, and...

  • Published by: Joint Nature Conservation Committee
  • Updated: 1 December 2024

• Conservation Advice Package Status (England)

  This dataset provides information on both terrestrial and marine protected sites across England, and the status of their Conservation packages, which are accessed via Designated Sites View. The...

  • Published by: Natural England
  • Updated: 9 April 2024

• Sentinel 1 and Sentinel 2 data (external access)

  Defra and JNCC aim to provide timely, cost effective and high quality, Analysis Ready Sentinel Data (ARD) for a wide range of applications. These data are provided for the UK geographic area for...

  • Published by: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 5 August 2021

• Severn Estuary SPA Functionally Linked Land Bird Sites

  This is a spatial dataset that describes the geographic extent of functionally linked sites, locations and counts (ie.individual records with a unique ID) of Severn Estuary SPA interest...

  • Published by: Natural England

• Severn Estuary SPA Functionally Linked Land Bird Connectivity

  This is a spatial dataset that describes the geographic extent of functionally linked sites, locations and counts (ie.individual records with a unique ID) of Severn Estuary SPA interest species

  • Published by: Natural England

• Living England Segmentation (2019)

  This is the spatial framework around which the Living England Phase II habitat classification is based. The segmentation was created in the Trimble eCognition software using Sentinel-2 Analysis...

  • Published by: Natural England
  • Updated: 3 December 2021

• Catchment Sensitive Farming Air Quality Priority Areas

  This is a spatial dataset that describes the priority areas for delivery of air quality advice from Catchment Sensitive Farming (CSF). This uses data created for the Nitrogen Futures project and...

  • Published by: Natural England
  • Updated: 16 July 2024

• Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) Product Brochure

  The Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment (NCEA) Product Brochure provides an overview of some of the key product collections that the NCEA programme is delivering with examples of how they are...

  • Published by: Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
  • Updated: 2 June 2025

• Biological-based habitat classification approaches promote cost-efficient monitoring: an example using seabed assemblages

  Files for use with the R script accompanying the paper Cooper et al. (2019). Note that this script also uses files from https://doi.org/10.14466/CefasDataHub.34_ (details provided in script)....

  • Published by: Centre for Environment, Fisheries & Aquaculture Science
  • Updated: 31 May 2023