UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) Cairngorm environmental and phenological data derived from fixed-point repeat photography, 2002-2019

Published by:
Environmental Information Data Centre
Last updated:
02 August 2023
Topic:
Not added
Licence:
Other Licence
View licence information

Summary

This dataset includes the dates and/or duration of all the environmental and phenological events that could be derived from a series of photographs taken by a fixed-point repeat camera system at the UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) site in the Cairngorms National Park, Scotland. The data covers the timing of permanent winter snow fall and subsequent spring melt on northern and eastern facing hill slopes between 2002 and 2019, as well as invertebrate (spittlebug spittlemass) and plant (heather flowering, scots pine leaf flushing) phenological events between 2010 and 2019. Three photographs were taken on a daily basis to maximise the chances of cloud free images, with the clearest image used for analysis. Event detection was generally achieved using manual assessment, but heather flowering showed a high degree of subjectivity, and so an automated pixel colour counting method was used to determine the peak flowering season. This work was supported by the Natural Environment Research Council award number NE/R016429/1 as part of the UK-SCAPE programme delivering National Capability. Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/8e30cead-700c-425c-841f-74c70659666a

More from this publisher

All datasets from Environmental Information Data Centre

Related datasets

Search

Data links

Link to the data Format File added Data preview
Supporting information ZIP 02 August 2023 Not available
Download the data N/A 02 August 2023 Not available

Additional information

View additional metadata
Added to data.gov.uk
2023-08-01T11:56:59
Access contraints
If you reuse this data, you should cite: Andrews, C., Dick, J. (2021). UK Environmental Change Network (ECN) Cairngorm environmental and phenological data derived from fixed-point repeat photography, 2002-2019. NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/8e30cead-700c-425c-841f-74c70659666a
Harvest GUID
8e30cead-700c-425c-841f-74c70659666a
Extent
Latitude: 57.11° to 57.07°
Longitude: -3.86° to -3.8°
Spatial reference system
Dataset reference date
2021-10-08 (publication)
Frequency of update
Responsible party
UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (author, pointOfContact, owner); NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre (custodian, publisher)
ISO 19139 resource type
dataset
Metadata language
eng
Source Metadata
XML
HTML

Contact

Enquiries

Environmental Information Data Centre

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests

UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology enquiry service Freedom of information requests for this dataset

Licence information

[]