Environment and Sustainability
We provide research and applied enterprise to address a wide range of environmental and social-environmental challenges. GeoData builds and works with teams of associates and multi-disciplinary academic partners to collect, analyse and interpret environmental and socio-environmental data to inform policy, identify solutions and build community resilience.
Environmental and socio-environmental services include:
- Strategic environmental assessment
- Environmental Research and Survey
- Freshwater, Coastal and Terrestrial Geomorphology / Strategic River Restoration
- Nature Conservation and Environmental Management
- Natural Capital and Ecosystem Assessment
- Recreational and Access planning
- Environmental Data Management, Platforms and Tools
- Environmental Change Assessment
- Systems Dynamics and Change Scenarios
- Remote Sensing and Earth Observation
- Policy, Guidance, Monitoring and Evaluation
Recent Environment Projects
Posted 2025-05-23 11:19:59 by Admin
Validating the Tranquil City Index (HEIF 2025)
This HEIF-funded project evaluates the Tranquil City Index (TCI) as a planning-relevant indicator of urban tranquillity by comparing it with psychological responses using the Perceived Restorativeness...
Posted 2025-05-23 11:23:35 by Admin
Sound and Mental Health Project
This interdisciplinary project investigates the relationship between urban soundscapes and the emotional well-being of university students. Participants walk along predefined quiet and noisy routes in...
Posted 2025-05-23 11:25:25 by Admin
Tranquillity Mapping for Urban Greenspace Access and Healthier Journeys
This HEIF-funded collaboration between Tranquil City Ltd and the University of Southampton’s GeoData Institute aims to develop a tranquillity index for the entire city. The project combines satellit...
Posted 2025-05-23 12:01:05 by Admin
BRAgS - Building Resilient Agricultural Systems: sustainable livelihoods in Mega-Deltas under environmental change
BRAgS - Building Resilient Agricultural Systems: sustainable livelihoods in Mega-Deltas under environmental changeThe BRAGS GCRF project establish a new international and multidisciplinary collaborati...
Posted 2025-05-23 11:57:21 by Admin
Developing the UNICEF Child Climate Risk Index
Prof. Craig Hutton lead a UK national academic team working with UNICEF in the development the development of the Children’s Climate Risk Index (CCRI), the first comprehensive global assessment of c...
Posted 2025-05-23 11:55:31 by Admin
Working towards Adaptive and Versatile Environmental Sustainability in mollusc aquaculture (WAVES)
Working towards Adaptive and Versatile Environmental Sustainability in mollusc aquaculture (WAVES) (2025 – 2028)The WAVES consortium aims to develop capacity in diversified mollusc aquaculture in SE...
Posted 2025-05-23 11:33:32 by Admin
Woodland Impacts of Development: Guidance, Evidence and Tools (WIDGET)
GeoData has led the technical team contributing evaluation and recommendations to the Forestry Commission on Evidence, Guidance and Tools. This multidisciplinary project was funded under Government’...
Posted 2025-05-27 10:45:57 by Admin
FruitSense
The FruitSense project is a UK-Australia collaboration aimed at enhancing the monitoring and management of Australia's tree crops through Earth Observation (EO) data and cloud computing technologies. ...
Posted 2025-05-27 10:51:30 by Admin
Active Travel Network (RATIN)
The Routable Active Travel Infrastructure Networks (RATIN) responds to the Active Travel Agenda that encourages and develops the data infrastructure to support walking and cycling for multiple transpo...
Posted 2025-06-06 10:15:27 by Duncan Hornby
New Forest streams
GeoData has a long history in running repeat surveys on capturing and analysing woody debris in selected New Forest streams. Originally data was captured on paper maps, but as technology improved, Geo...
Posted 2025-06-06 10:11:01 by Duncan Hornby
Sediment fingerprint tracing
GeoData has worked in partnership with Rothamsted Research in collecting sediment and soil samples along river catchments in England and Wales to investigate and trace sediment deposition pathways. Mo...
