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Module - Mapping Environmental Assets
This Mapping Environmental Assets module, developed in partnership with Land App, will develop your skills and knowledge to produce a multi-layered digital map of public goods for an upland farm, moorland area or nature reserve.
Participants in 2024 said:
"Enjoyed the mix of online and in person attendance. Enjoyed travelling to the campus as an agricultural learning hub." "Jake [tutor] was truly fabulous! Very professional, approachable, inclusive and a very good teacher for such a broad group of folk." "Host farms for field work were brilliant."
In Cumbria, delivery of this course is supported by education charity - The Ernest Cook Trust.
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Course Overview
Many roles in land management, farming, environmental conservation and advisory services can benefit from an understanding of digital mapping technology and the ability to create bespoke layers to display key information on top of a base map.
Depicting vegetation, soil characteristics, cultural features and boundaries can help you quantify assets and plan and monitor changes.
You will use Land App, to combine your observations from fieldwork with publicly available data and produce a layered map of environmental assets for an upland location. Additionally, you will be introduced to some methods for categorising habitats and conducting simple biodiversity surveys of vegetation.
This course includes farm visits for practical fieldwork combined with workshops and seminars at our Ambleside campus plus online evening lectures. The in-person taught days are spread across a two-month period so that the course will often be possible to complete whilst working.
On this course you will...
- Use technology to create a layered map of environmental assets for an upland area
- Access relevant publicly available data sets and extract relevant data.
- Gain an understanding of biodiversity and habitat baseline assessment and monitoring techniques.
- Learn relevant and applied material in a small group through a variety of delivery methods
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