Information products

UKCEH has a long history of creating innovative information products. We take a flexible approach to licensing to meet the needs of commercial, non-commercial and academic customers. You can use our information products within your organisation and for the development and sale of value added products.

Our information products are also available for use in academic research and can be licensed without charge via the EDINA Environment Digimap service or from UKCEH directly.

To request access to our information products, or to discuss licence options, please complete the quote request form found on each product page.

UKCEH Land Cover Maps

The maps are created by classifying satellite data and are used for a wide range of applications including urban planning, carbon accounting and flood risk modelling.

6 photos of musk mallow to aid identification on a phone app

E-Tools

These free tools and apps support sustainable farming

Sample data from Land Cover Plus Hedgerows (England)

UKCEH Land Cover Plus: Hedgerows (England)

A model of the extent and height class of woody linear features on field boundaries in England, including hedgerows, tree lines and semi-natural thickets of shrubs and trees

Floating Weed Manager

A web-based tool helping water body managers, field surveyors, and biologists monitor and control invasive floating plants.

UKCEH Land Cover® plus: Fertilisers and Pesticides

These national maps estimate fertiliser and pesticide applications supporting research into the environmental impacts of agriculture.

UKCEH Land Cover® plus: Crops

UKCEH Land Cover® plus: Crop maps are the first detailed, interactive, digital maps of crops in Great Britain.

Woody Linear Features Framework

This dataset shows hedges and lines of trees across the whole of Great Britain on all land.

Rainfall frequency grids

Each grid gives point rainfall depth estimates in mm for a specified duration (hours) and return period (years).

Road sign almost submerged in high water

IH130 Digital Flood Risk Maps

These flood risk maps for Scotland and Northern Ireland are used by planners and the insurance industry.

Hydrology of Soil Types 1km Grid

In this dataset, 29 soil classes are grouped by their hydrological properties.

Peak river flows (Q(T) Grids)

Flood peak river flows estimated at 50m intervals along the UK river network.

Integrated Hydrological Digital Terrain Model

The model comprises five separate gridded datasets which can be licensed together or separately.

UKCEH 1:50,000 Digital River Network

The first continuous digital river network to be produced for Great Britain, covering rivers, canals and field drains.

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