By incorporating vegetation features from the Environment Agency, World Resources Institute, and Meta into your plans, this tool will integrate these important features into any Baseline Habitat Assessments and automatically subtract these where overlaps are present.
How to use the tool:
Build your Baseline Habitat Assessment:
Click on the three vertical dots next to the plan name on the left-hand panel:
Click 'Toolbox'
Click 'Simplified Vegetation':
You will receive an email from us to confirm the process is running and another to confirm the status
Once you have confirmation of a successful download, a new plan titled 'Vegetation...' will load in the left-hand panel. Please note you may need to refresh your browser for these to load.
The new plan will include downloaded vegetation from data sources determined by where the plan is located (see more details below).
Vegetation features will automatically subtract any overlaps in the original Baseline Habitat Assessment:
For England the data comes from the Environment Agency's LIDAR derived Vegetation Object Model (VOM).
UKHabitat Best Guess Baseline including the Vegetation Data overlaid on LiDAR from the Environment Agency.
The LIDAR derived Vegetation Object Model (VOM) is a raster product produced as part of the Environment Agency’s “Keeping Rivers Cool” project. It is an attempt to identify riparian tree cover and the opportunities for tree planting to increase future shading of streams & rivers.
Land App converts this raster data into vector for vegetation >2.5m tall.
Note from producer: "The result is a raster product where each pixel represents the height of top of canopy above ground, for all classified vegetation objects above a threshold of 2.5 metres. The data production is fully automated, with no manual QC and editing of the output, other than visual checks. Because of the process to classify objects based on proximity to features within OS mapping, there could be some misclassifications of objects not included in the OS mapping (especially static caravans, shipping containers, large tents/marquees, coastal cliffs and new buildings constructed directly under tree cover). This is the first release of this dataset, the quality of the production methods will be reviewed over the next year and improvements made where possible."
For areas outside of England, similar data has been modelled by WRI and Meta.
The outputs are generated in the Baseline Habitat Assessment template with the UKHab codes "w: Woodland", "w1+: Broadleaved and Yew Woodland", "w2+: Coniferous Woodland", "h3: Dense scrub" and "w1g: Other broadleaved woodland".
See How to assign a use for more information.