What is the Eden EVOp about?

The Eden EVOp is part of a national pilot project called the Environmental Virtual Observatory. The idea of this project is to combine numerous sources of environmental information such as data sets, models and knowledge into one web-based platform accessible to everyone from an interested citizen to a scientist or decision maker. An important part of this project involves talking to local communities about what environmental issues they think are important and getting help in designing a landscape visualisation tool for the Morland area in the river Eden, which can be used to learn about the local environment, share knowledge and eventually help make better environmental decisions. In this pilot project we are particularly interested in your views on flooding and water pollution.

Our project is working alongside The River Eden Demonstration Test Catchment (Eden DTC) project. The purpose of this project is to develop a large-scale research platform to test measures for reducing diffuse pollution from agriculture. A lot of information about the local environment is being collected as part of this project and the The Eden DTC website displays live data showing river levels, web cams images, rainfall information and water quality data which we hope to use in the Environmental Virtual Observatory pilot.