CEH Land Cover plus: Pesticides 2012-2016 (England and Wales)
[THIS DATASET HAS BEEN WITHDRAWN]. This data product maps pesticide applications across England and Wales. It is produced at a 1km resolution with units of kg active ingredient applied per year. Pesticide application rates (kg/km2/yr) are calculated for each of the crops grown in each 1km square, with the total application calculated by multiplying the estimated rates by the area of each crop in the square. The product provides application estimates for 129 different active ingredients including herbicides, insecticides, molluscicides and fungicides. Uncertainty maps are produced alongside each active ingredient map to quantify the level of confidence in the estimated applications. Uncertainty is quantified using the distribution of each parameter estimate obtained from the modelling method and is expressed relative to the total application. The product is a snapshot of average applications between 2012 and 2016. The product builds upon the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology (CEH) Land Cover® Plus: Crops product. An average of CEH Land Cover® Plus: Crops 2015, 2016 and 2017 is used to reflect average crop coverage at the 1km resolution. Temporal variation in pesticide application is not modelled explicitly but is reflected in the uncertainty maps. This data product was funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) under research programme NE/N018125/1 Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems (ASSIST). ASSIST is an initiative jointly supported by NERC and the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). Full details about this dataset can be found at
https://doi.org/10.5285/a72f8ce8-561f-4f3a-8866-5da620c0c9fe
Simple
- Date (Publication)
- 2019-02-27
- Identifier
- doi: / 10.5285/a72f8ce8-561f-4f3a-8866-5da620c0c9fe
- Other citation details
- Jarvis, S.G., Henrys, P.A., Redhead, J.W., Da Silva Osório, B.M., Pywell, R.F. (2019). CEH Land Cover plus: Pesticides 2012-2016 (England and Wales). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre 10.5285/a72f8ce8-561f-4f3a-8866-5da620c0c9fe
- GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0
-
- Land Use
- Access constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- Superseded
- Use constraints
- otherRestrictions Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- If you reuse this data, you should cite: Jarvis, S.G., Henrys, P.A., Redhead, J.W., Da Silva Osório, B.M., Pywell, R.F. (2019). CEH Land Cover plus: Pesticides 2012-2016 (England and Wales). NERC Environmental Information Data Centre https://doi.org/10.5285/a72f8ce8-561f-4f3a-8866-5da620c0c9fe
- Spatial representation type
- grid Grid
- Distance
- 1000 urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- utf8 UTF8
- Topic category
-
- Environment
- Farming
- Begin date
- 2012-01-01
- End date
- 2016-12-31
N
S
E
W
))
- Unique resource identifier
- OSGB 1936 / British National Grid
- Distribution format
-
-
TIFF
()
-
TIFF
()
- OnLine resource
-
Supporting information
Supporting information available to assist in re-use of this dataset
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Other
- dataset
Conformance result
- Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
- Statement
- These maps were created under the ASSIST (Achieving Sustainable Agricultural Systems) project by staff at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology to enable exploration of the impacts of agrochemical usage on the environment, enabling farmers and policymakers to implement better, more sustainable agricultural practices. The maps use data from the Fera Pesticide Utilisation Surveys (PUS) and CEH Land Cover® plus: Crops and have been assessed for quality. For further information, please see the supporting documentation available with this data product.
- File identifier
- a72f8ce8-561f-4f3a-8866-5da620c0c9fe XML
- Metadata language
- EnglishEnglish
- Character set
- ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
- Hierarchy level
- dataset Dataset
- Hierarchy level name
- dataset
- Date stamp
- 2025-07-25T15:30:44
- Metadata standard name
- UK GEMINI
- Metadata standard version
- 2.3
Point of contact
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg
,
Lancaster
,
LA1 4AP
,
UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
Overviews
Spatial extent
N
S
E
W
))
Provided by

Associated resources
Not available