Development of Integrated Web-Based Land Decision Support System Aiming Towards the Implementation of Policies: an integrated forestry approach

In literature a very large range of available DSS tools can be found for facing agriculture, forestry and environmental issues. However, these are typically designed to tackle a specific problem/scale/end-user group. The objective of LANDSUPPORT (H2020 project) is the construction of a web-based smart geoSpatial Decision Support System (S-DSS), which shall provide a powerful set of tools devoted to: (i) support sustainable agriculture and forestry; (ii) evaluate trade-off between land uses; (iii) contribute to implementation, impact and delivery of about 20 European land policies and also selected 2030 UN Sustainable Development Goals including climate change resilience goals. Specifically, a family of tools is under development to support sustainable forestry as required by EU Forestry Strategy designed for forest owners and policy makers to adopt best forest practices. LANDSUPPORT will use EO data and simulation modelling in order to: (i) map and monitor forest productivity; (ii) (iii) (iv) identify forestry best practices to increase climate change resilience; assess the impact of selected forest bestpractices indicators and criteria with modelling applications; quantify forest ecosystem services through the development of relevant indicators for a preliminary FES estimation also according to forest types. LANDSUPPORT will also establish a cooperative network with EIP-Agri aiming to contribute to EIP work "Forest practices and Climate change group". The above-mentioned objectives will be achieved through the integration of existing available databases and the development of high performance modelling chains and engines. Starting from sustainable forestry management policies, LULUCF regulation will also be taken into account. The forestry tool will work at different geographic scales including Europe, EU Member States (Italy, Hungary,) and two European Regions in IT and HU (Campania Region and Keszthely), plus one local test-site in Slovenia. LANDSUPPORT aims at providing an integrated and operational set of tools that could be useful to foresters, municipality officers and land owners, to support and foster decision-making process in forest planning and land management.