CEH Data Holdings

CEH hosts a wealth of environmental information gathered over decades of environmental monitoring and research.  This information covers a wide range of nationally and often globally unique long-term datasets. CEH’s skills in information management enable these datasets to be used for integrated environmental science.

Environmental Information Data Centre

CEH hosts the Environmental Information Data Centre (EIDC), which both coordinates CEH data activities and is the NERC Data Centre for the Terrestrial and Freshwater Sciences. The aim of the EIDC is to give researchers access to the coordinated data resources and informatics tools needed to find answers to complex, multidisciplinary environmental questions. 

CEH Information Gateway

The new CEH Information Gateway enables users to find out about datasets held by EIDC and, in some cases, view datasets on a map or download them directly. CEH is working to add further datasets to the CEH Information Gateway over the next few years.

CEH’s monitoring activities

CEH is involved with monitoring activities at over 180 sites across Great Britain. These include 88 lowland sites, 44 upland sites, 33 freshwater sites and 130 terrestrial sites. Many broad habitat types are represented including forests, heaths, wetlands, coastal areas and lowland lakes. For more on CEH's monitoring activities, please click here.

Major datasets and facilities hosted by CEH

Licensing of Information Products

A number of environmental information products are available under licence from CEH. Details of these along with the costs and terms and conditions associated with their licensing can be found here and via discussion with the CEH Data Licensing and Intellectual Property Rights team.

More information

For background on the datasets listed above, please click here.