The U.K. Environmental Change Network Database: An Integrated Information Resource for Long-term Monitoring and Research

摘要

An integrated approach to information resource development has been adopted by the Environmental Change Network (ECN) to underpin environmental change research and policy requirements within the U.K. This approach views the data management process as an integrated system in order to achieve a smooth flow of data from capture through to access within the short time- scales required, incorporating the necessary quality assurance specifications. ECN is the U.K.'s long-term environmental monitoring programme, established in 1992 to provide comparable, reliable, multi-disciplinary, long- term runs of data on environmental change.