Founder’s Note – January 2024
January has been a fantastic start for us here at Land App, as we continue to make progress on our projects with the DEFRA departments about managing the natural capital market.
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Using Land App to Speed Up Habitat Assessments: 6 Benefits
Recently, we announced our partnership with UKHab Ltd, helping to bring efficiency, consistency, and accuracy to the way habitat assessments are carried out.
The UK Habitat Classification System: How it works
The UK Habitat Classification system (also referred to as UKHab) is a coding system used for surveying and classifying habitats when conducting a habitat assessment. By assigning specific ecological features a primary habitat code, secondary code, and condition score, it enables ecosystems to be mapped with accuracy and detail.
What is Biodiversity Net Gain?
Biodiversity Net Gain (BNG) is a central policy for both development and conservation in England, introducing a new focus to the way we approach land development. This blog explores what BNG is: its key points, purpose, and why it matters to various stakeholders.
Habitat Assessments Explained: Navigating baselining with Land App
As the land management sector begins the transition to digital mapping in earnest, habitat mapping has become more sophisticated, and important. Habitat assessments will play an important role in new environmental land management schemes, developments for Biodiversity Net Gain, Landscape Recovery and so much more…
Making the Agricultural Transition: Why Digital Defra Submissions are the Future of Nature-Friendly Farming.
Here the Land App team explore why digital submissions to defra will improve access to new funding schemes, and enhance access to nature friendly farming
Updates from Defra: April 2023
Every now and then, we let our Land App users know the latest news from Defra, relevant to policy, funding changes and opportunities. You can read about April’s updates below: * *Please note the following is text provided directly from Defra, which Land App has agreed to pass on. Plan for Water: new funding available …
Land App Mobile Now Available
Land App is thrilled to announce the release of our dedicated mobile application, Land App Mobile (beta version 1.0). This new product will streamline your mapping and data collection on-the-ground, and it will be available as a free trial to our professional subscribers on iOS and Android devices. Please note, you will need a professional …
Creating a Sustainable Supply Chain with Sainsbury’s
Land App, Sainsbury’s and UKCEH have formed an exciting partnership leading the way in the transition to sustainable food production and resilient supply chains.
ELMS: Where are we now?
In our latest Thought Leadership piece, the Land App Team discuss the latest ELMs updates, including the progress of scheme applications and progress. Dive in to get up to speed with ELMs…