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Terrestrial Surveillance Development and Analysis (TSDA)

Terrestrial Surveillance Development and Analysis (TSDA) is a partnership between JNCC, the UK Centre For Ecology & Hydrology (UKCEH) and the British Trust for Ornithology (BTO). The partnership aims to develop and enhance biodiversity monitoring schemes involving volunteer recorders, and the uses of their data to address policy-relevant questions about biodiversity. The work seeks to serve the needs of UK governments, country nature conservation bodies (CNCBs) and volunteer recording schemes which are represented by JNCC’s UK Terrestrial Evidence Partnership of Partnerships (UKTEPoP). The TSDA partnership enables exploration of common challenges faced by the sector - working across partners, partnerships and datasets - to find and implement effective solutions.   

The TSDA partnership was established in 2017 and comprises two phases: Phase 1 (2017 to 2022), and Phase 2 (2022 to 2027), with outputs for these two phases captured below. At present, the TSDA partnership is working towards the aims set out in the TSDA Strategy 2022 to 2027

 

Partnership publications

A catalogue of all outputs from Phase 1 and Phase 2 of TSDA can be found on our Resource hub:  

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Collaborating with TSDA

We welcome discussion and collaboration with other organisations as we work on different analysis and development challenges. You can find out more about our current work through these 5-minute presentations:  

Further development of climate change adaptation indicators 

Barriers, challenges and solutions to improving recording in Northern Ireland 

Citizen science habitat recording 

Identifying priorities for technological development 

Adding value to unstructured data 

Dealing with geographic biases 

Co-development of Targeting Revisits maps

Scoping the potential for multi-taxon analysis using co-located data

Integrating freshwater data across schemes

Designing automated personalised feedback to inspire biological recorders to fill gaps

Our current work phase is focused on three grand challenges facing the biodiversity sector; adapting to new requirements for evidence, exploiting new data streams and developing a volunteer-centred approach to the evolution of TEPoP schemes.

If you are interested in the work of the TSDA or would like to discuss any of these tasks, please get in touch at TEPoP@jncc.gov.uk, or let us know if you’d like to get involved or hear more through this form.  

A number of these tasks have been discussed as part of UKTEPoP, these events have been recorded and can be found on the UKTEPoP YouTube channel.   

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