The Centre for Ecology and Hydrology (CEH) is the UK’s Centre of Excellence for research in the land and freshwater environmental sciences. CEH specialises in a wide range of environmental disciplines and covers scales from the gene to whole Earth systems. Their research is aimed at improving understanding both of the environment and of the natural processes that underlie the Earth’s support systems, for example climate and water resources.

CEH has undertaken a joint feasibility study with 1Spatial and Ordnance Survey Great Britain to generalise OS MasterMap® data as a potential foundation for its Land Cover Map (LCM) 2007.

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