dataset · United Kingdom
Government / regulator
UKCEH Land Cover plus: Pesticides 2012-2014, 2016-2018 and 2020-2022 (England, Scotland and Wales)
UKCEH Land Cover plus: Pesticides maps annual average pesticide applications across England, Wales and Scotland for three time periods (2012-2014, 2016-2018, 2020-2022). The product provides application estimates for 183 different active ingredients including herbicides, insecticides, molluscicides and fungicides. It is produced at a 1km resolution with units of kg active ingredient applied per year. This version of UKCEH Land Cover plus: Pesticides provides average annual application for three
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What's in it
- Data offered docs-verified
- annual average pesticide application estimates (kg active ingredient/km²/yr) for 183 active ingredients · herbicides, insecticides, molluscicides and fungicides · uncertainty map alongside each active-ingredient map
- Coverage docs-verified
- England, Scotland and Wales · 2012-2022 (three periods: 2012-2014, 2016-2018, 2020-2022)
- Resolution docs-verified
- 1 km (1000 m) spatial; annual averages for three time periods
- Formats docs-verified
- TIFF
- Access docs-verified
- Bespoke licence negotiated with UKCEH Data Licensing team on download; dataset must be cited in publications
Useful for
- Use cases llm-inferred
- Baseline pesticide application screening for catchment diffuse-pollution and water-quality risk assessment · Agricultural pressure context for ecological or habitat impact assessments, overlaid on site boundaries · Change assessment of pesticide use across 2012-2022 for environmental risk reporting
- Audience llm-inferred
- ecologists · hydrologists · water-quality consultants · environmental risk assessors · GIS analysts
Limitations
- Constraints docs-verified
- Modelled estimates: county-level application rates are interpolated and matched to crop data, not measured per field · Earliest period (2012-2014) crop cover is estimated by backcasting · Provides three discrete period averages rather than a continuous annual series · Bespoke licence must be negotiated before download; not directly openly downloadable
- Licence
- Non-Open government licence
- Authentication
- Unknown — review source docs
- GitHub stars
- Unknown
- Last commit
- Unknown
- Last successful page check
- 16/10/2026
- Page health
- healthy
- Package
- Not recorded
- Verification
- Not independently verified
Provenance & evidence
Listed in ukceh-eidc public catalogue API on 2026-10-16; relevance/value screened (haiku).
Metadata observed 14/10/2026 · research sweep: sweep-2026-10-16 (ukceh-eidc)