What it does: we are the national lead on aerial investigation and mapping and set the standards for the professional, academic and volunteer sectors. We undertake, manage and provide expert advice on programmes of aerial reconnaissance and air photo interpretation in order to discover, record, characterise and monitor archaeological sites, historic buildings, and landscapes. We use sources including historic and modern aerial photographs, satellite imagery and airborne laser scanning data...

Using new data sources and novel methodologies, the Scottish Centre for Administrative Data Research analyses public sector data and explores what linking it in new ways can reveal. 

Comprising of researchers from a range of leading institutions across Scotland, the centre itself is hosted within the University of Edinburgh and directed by Professor Chris Dibben. Our research uses administrative data to examine issues from across society in Scotland and the UK, providing evidence-based...

The AMF was established in April 2014, following a review of NCAS’s ground-based facilities and the service they provided to the community. Its remit is threefold: (i) to deploy instrumentation and provide a quality-controlled data product for field measurements; (ii) to provide underpinning laboratory facilities for calibration and experimentation; and (iii) to provide access to NCAS field sites for guest instrumentation. In 2018, under the direction of NERC, AMF merged with its sister facility...

What we do: Cambridge University Libraries forms one of the world's leading research libraries providing access to and support for national and international scholarship based on its research collections. The main University Library is a flagship research library; working within a distributed network of faculty, departmental and College libraries which together form the rich collections for international scholarship.

Who can use the service?: The main University Library is open to all...

CLOSER, the home of longitudinal research, brings together world-leading longitudinal studies to maximise their use, value and impact and improve our understanding of key social and biomedical challenges.

Enabling change over time and across generations to be better understood:

CLOSER brings longitudinal data together in a consistent format – a process known as data harmonisation. This allows researchers to compare data from different studies, providing insights into how and why the UK is...

Earth observation, climate and optical - improving the quality of data collected through Earth observation systems and satellites

As the UK’s National Measurement Institute, NPL has cutting edge capabilities in optical radiation metrology in the UV-Visible-IR range across a variety of applications. Our world leading expertise and SI tracible measurement facilities are applied to enabling new product development, quality assurance, health and safety, and compliance in applications as...

EPCC is the supercomputing centre at the University of Edinburgh. Established in 1990, it is National HPC Centre in everything but name having hosted many of the UK's National HPC services over the past 30 years. Today it hosts the ARCHER2 National HPC service on behalf of EPSRC and NERC, the Research Data Facility, the CIRRUS Tier 2 HPC service on behalf of EPSRC, and the DIRAC service on behalf of STFC. It owns and operates a state-of-the-art Data Centre, the Advanced Computing Facility, on...

Emissions and atmospheric metrology - Providing traceability and validation for emission and atmospheric measurements: improving confidence in environmental measurements for pollution, air quality and climate change

Pollution is responsible for ~29,000 premature deaths p.a and increased health costs of ~£20 billion a year in the UK alone. Industry, regulators and the research community are working hard to reduce emissions of pollutants, such as SO2, NOx, HCl and particulates. Similar...

Cirrus is one of the EPSRC Tier-2 National HPC Facilities and is available for users in both academia and industry. Housed at EPCC's Advanced Computing Facility, Cirrus is a flexible, state-of-the-art High Performance Computing system that provides an ideal platform for users to solve their computational, simulation, modelling, and data science challenges.

Heritage science is the science of interpretation and management of cultural heritage. As a cross-disciplinary field, it requires cutting edge research physical science and engineering facilities and expertise, while its impact is mainly in social sciences and humanities. E-RIHS will deliver integrated access to cutting-edge scientific activities through four access platforms: FIXLAB for fixed analytical facilities, MOLAB, a fleet of advanced mobile lab facilities DIGILAB for online scientific...