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A Geospatial Decision Support System for Supporting the Assessment of Land Degradation in Europe

Published:2024-01-12 Issue:1 Volume:13 Page:89
ISSN:2073-445X
Container-title:Land
language:en
Short-container-title:Land

Author:

Manna Piero¹^ORCID,Agrillo Antonietta¹,Bancheri Marialaura¹,Di Leginio Marco²,Ferraro Giuliano³,Langella Giuliano³⁴^ORCID,Mileti Florindo Antonio³,Riitano Nicola²^ORCID,Munafò Michele²^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Institute for Mediterranean Agricultural and Forestry Systems (ISAFOM), National Research Council (CNR), 80055 Portici, Italy

2. Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research (ISPRA), 00144 Rome, Italy

3. CRISP Research Center, Department of Agriculture, University of Napoli Federico II, 80055 Naples, Italy

4. Department of Agriculture, University of Napoli Federico II, 80055 Naples, Italy

Abstract

Nowadays, Land Degradation Neutrality (LDN) is on the political agenda as one of the main objectives in order to respond to the increasing degradation processes affecting soils and territories. Nevertheless, proper implementation of environmental policies is very difficult due to a lack of the operational, reliable and easily usable tools necessary to support political decisions when identifying problems, defining the causes of degradation and helping to find possible solutions. It is within this framework that this paper attempts to demonstrate a new valuable web-based operational LDN tool as a component of an already running Spatial Decision Support System (S-DSS) developed on a Geospatial Cyberinfrastructure (GCI). The tool could be offered to EU administrative units (e.g., municipalities) so that they may better evaluate the state and the impact of land degradation in their territories. The S-DSS supports the acquisition, management and processing of both static and dynamic data, together with data visualization and on-the-fly computing, in order to perform modelling, all of which is potentially accessible via the Web. The land degradation data utilized to develop the LDN tool refer to the SDG 15.3.1 indicator and were obtained from a platform named Trends.Earth, designed to monitor land change by using earth observations, and post-processed to correct some of the major artefacts relating to urban areas. The tool is designed to support land planning and management by producing data, statistics, reports and maps for any EU area of interest. The tool will be demonstrated through a short selection of practical case studies, where data, tables and stats are provided to challenge land degradation at different spatial extents. Currently, there are WEBGIS systems to visualize land degradation maps but—to our knowledge—this is the first S-DSS tool enabling customized LDN reporting at any NUTS (nomenclature of territorial units for statistics) level for the entire EU territory.

Funder

EC Horizon 2020

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

Nature and Landscape Conservation,Ecology,Global and Planetary Change

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2073-445X/13/1/89/pdf

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