Visualising our changing landscape

We hear all the time about climate change and the impact it will have on our future.  But it’s difficult to imagine what the actual effects on our landscape will be.  What will the landscape look like and how will changes to the landscape affect our lives?

Visualising our changing landscape

Using the latest in computer technology, we can create photo-realistic models of how things might look in the future – allowing us to see the potential impact in ways that are easy to understand. This technology allows us to illustrate a range of scenarios: something difficult to do even just a few years ago.

We can create a variety of landscapes and scenarios to picture climate and man-made changes - filled with elements and objects we recognise from the real world and based on accurate data about our landscape from data sources such as aerial photography or the Ordnance Survey.

Improved grassland:

Pond:

_{Ordnance Survey base mapping reproduced with the permission of HMSO.  Crown Copyright reserved.  CCW Licence number: 10018813, 2007.}

_{Aerial photography © GetMapping PLC. 2001, 2002}