https://vimeo.com/63326113 Magda Bieroza , Lancaster University Lancaster University is developing further and integrating the risks from fine sediment, phosphorus and nitrogen losses from catchments using the SCIMAP approach pioneered by Durham and Lancaster Universities. We…
https://vimeo.com/62857760 Alistair Maltby, Director North, The Rivers Trust The earliest principles of the rivers trust movement were based on managing catchments as watersheds, and the twelve principles of the ecosystems approach. In the agricultural dominated…
John M Douglass, Environment Agency. A good SCIMAP-sediment model will identify probable critical source areas of fine sediment within a catchment at a field scale. It does this by estimating relative erodability of soils and…
Shore, M. 1,2, Melland, A.R.1, Murphy, P.N.C.1, Jordan, P.3, Mellander P-E.1, Mechan, S.1, Shine, O.1, and Shortle, G.1. 1: Agricultural Catchments Programme, Teagasc, Johnstown Castle, Wexford, Ireland 2: School of Environmental and Biological Sciences,…
Nick Paling, Westcountry Rivers Trust. If we can determine which pressures are exerting negative impacts on the water quality in our aquatic ecosystems and identify their sources in a catchment, then we can develop a…
David Higgins, Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust The Yorkshire Dales Rivers Trust has been using SCIMAP to target investigations for at least five years. Many of the restoration works carried out have been directed by the model. Wetlands, gill…
Steph Dixon has completed her MSc by Research that looked at how to incorporate temporal issues associated with rural diffuse pollution within the SCIMAP risk mapping framework. The full Masters by Research thesis is on…
If you are using the current CEH Land Cover Map 2007 (LCM2007), then the standard reclassification table that is used in SCIMAP will not work because CEH changed how they coded the different land cover…
Sometimes the output from SCIMAP (SAGA GIS version) is not as expected and features strange contour line like features.
Agenda 10:30 Opening and Welcome. Sim Reaney, Durham University Keynote One: 10:40 Diffuse Pollution, the Water Framework Directive and SCIMAP – an Environment Agency View. Linda Pope, Environment Agency User stories: 11:00 [Cancelled] Using SCIMAP…