Paul AshtonData Mapping, Modelling and Information

What do we do?Environment AgencyWithin England we’re responsible for:• regulating major industry and waste• water quality and resources• fisheries• inland river, estuary and harbour

navigations• conservation and ecology• Managing flood risk

DMMI• Recording what data we hold• Licensing data to customers• Providing platforms to share data• Creating and maintaining mapping

solutions• Open Data

Why are we involved?Our priorities are to:

• work with businesses and other organisations to manage the use of resources

• increase the resilience of people, property and businesses to the risks of flooding and coastal erosion

• protect and improving water, land and biodiversity

• improve the way we work as a regulator to protect people and the environment and support sustainable growth

Where are we up to now?

Open LIDAR now available

• Unlocking 8000 datasets from Defra’s vast data vaults by June 2016

• Enabling a cultural change• Speaking out about the value of our data and how it is being used

• Encouraging innovation through hack days & innovation challenges

• Fixing business processes to enable a quick, risk-based approach to data release

• Improving the data we make available

What is #OpenDefra?

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What would the environmental impact of a moto-cross trail here be?

Would this be a good place to grow vines? What is the soil type, how steep is it, which way does it face?

Is this woodland ready to fell? What species are present? What’s it worth?

Would we get permission to route a powerline here?

What can I see standing here? How many visitors come here? Why?

Is this moorland in good enough condition to effectively capture rain and prevent flooding ?

Where are the cattle in this field bred and sold?

Who owns this farm? How well connected is it? Could it be the base for a rural technology centre?

Why unlock our data vaults?

Can I canoe here? What’s the water flow like?

What crop is being grown in this field?

How many businesses would be flooded if this river broke its banks?

What’s the soil and geological make-up of this land?

What’s the average annual rainfall?

Should I restrict access here due to fire risk?

Defra Data Accelerator

Approach to delivery

Sept Oct Nov Dec Jan............................June 2016

Review/ Confirm

Add

Publishing process

Sustainable future

Datasets

What have we got?• Everything is up for grabs

What have we got?National Dataset List - .gov.uk

Flooding data - due to go Open April 2016

LIDAR

River levels, flows

Rainfall

Water Framework Directive

Maintenance

Groundwater

Abstractions

Fish

Where can you find it?

What can we offer you?