GIS Mapping

We can offer a full range of Geographic Information System (GIS) services. Most of our survey maps are produced using either ArcGIS or MapInfo GIS software, dependent on client wishes. We also undertake specific GIS projects, including digitisation of data and analysis of data.

Recent GIS projects have included the revision of the Reedbeds and Fens UK BAP Habitat Inventories for Cumbria, the Lowland Heathland Inventory for NW England and the Upland Heathland, Blanket Bog and Mountain Heaths and Willow Scrub Inventories for England for Natural England, the output of which can be viewed or downloaded from the Magic website.

We have also employed GIS:

• as part of a feasibility study of the potential for developing the visitor experience and biodiversity opportunities of the Ribble Estuary National Nature Reserve, mapping visitor facilities and BAP priority habitats and species in the vicinity of the NNR;
• to identify and map regionally significant natural assets in NW England for the NWDA Marketing the Natural Environment of England’s Northwest project;
• in a desk study of potential areas for the creation of new native woodland in the Forest of Bowland; and
• in digitisation of biological data for Morecambe Bay for North Western and North Wales Sea Fisheries Committee.