{"access":"Free tool","capabilities":"The ASSET tool is a web-based data explorer which works by building new scenarios of land cover and land use and then modelling their impacts on a series of environmental outcomes.  There are also information icons within ASSET which you can use to help you understand what’s what. For further information, we've summarised what the different land cover and crop scenarios mean and given some detail for each of the different variables modelled under ASSET. ","description":"The purpose of the ASSET tool is to explore the impacts of potential changes in the way we use the UK countryside. It can be used to compare the ways in which future changes in the types of land we have (e.g. farmland, grassland, forest) and the way we use them (e.g. which crops we grow, what we use our forests for) might affect society and the environment.  ASSET was built to explore scenarios of future changes at broad national and regional scales. Scenarios are plausible storylines about the future - rather than attempting to predict exactly what will happen, the aim of scenarios is to better understand the range of potential outcomes and trade-offs between different responses. This is important for informing people about the impacts of possible changes and contributes to develop management strategies and policies.","fundingSources":"NERC Assist Programme","id":"496b58ce-b3aa-49ff-8a25-034f77eab97f","infrastructureCategory":{"value":"data","description":"Environmental data and information","infrastructureClass":"Digital infrastructures","uri":"http://vocabs.ceh.ac.uk/ri/data"},"lifecycle":"The ASSET land cover change scenarios all used the CEH Land Cover Map 2007 as a baseline, whilst all crop scenarios used the CEH Land Cover® plus: Crops map 2016.  All changes were modelled using custom adaptations of the InVEST Scenario Generator tool.  Response variables were all modelled from existing data by a variety of approaches. All data are either publically available or used with the appropriate permissions.\n\nASSET v1 was built to explore scenarios of these changes at broad national or regional scales.   ASSET 2.0 is now available - The latest version of ASSET now contains 5200 possible combinations of land cover and land use change scenarios and twelve measures of impact on society and the environment.","metadataDate":"2025-04-09T09:24:16","onlineResources":[{"url":"https://eidc.ceh.ac.uk/images/browsegraphics/asset.png","name":"ASSET logo","function":"image","type":"OTHER"},{"url":"https://assist.ceh.ac.uk/asset-assist-scenario-exploration-tool","function":"website","type":"OTHER"}],"owners":[{"familyName":"Redhead","givenName":"John","displayName":"John Redhead ","organisationName":"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology","organisationIdentifier":"https://ror.org/00pggkr55","role":"pointOfContact","email":"enquiries@ceh.ac.uk","address":{"city":"Wallingford"},"fullName":"John Redhead ","pointOfContact":"UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology"}],"partners":"BTO","resourceIdentifiers":[{"code":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/496b58ce-b3aa-49ff-8a25-034f77eab97f"}],"scienceArea":"Biodiversity","title":"ASSIST senario exploration tool (ASSET)","type":"infrastructureRecord","uri":"https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/496b58ce-b3aa-49ff-8a25-034f77eab97f","users":["Policy makers, farming industry, farmers, researchers"]}