LandSFACTS

Software for spatio-temporal allocation of crops to fields for researchers and modellers

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LandSFACTS software is specifically designed to meet the needs of environmental and agronomical research modellers requiring land-use maps through time. LandSFACTS may help to (i) set up scenarios of crop allocations, and (ii) fill out incomplete datasets (e.g. datasets missing field-specific data). In short, the software allocates crops to fields at the landscape scale to meet user-defined crop arrangements, including separation distances between crops, crop rotations, forbidden crop sequences, crop return periods, yearly crop proportions, and statistical indexes of general crop spatio-temporal patterns.

LandSFACTS stands for: Landscape Scale Functional Allocation of Crops Temporally and Spatially.

The software was developed as part of the SIGMEA project (http://sigmea.dyndns.org/).

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Example of crop allocation generated from LandSFACTS, displayed in a GIS.

Scenario: GM and conventional oilseed rape must be spatially separated by 100 meters, this separation is represented by the red circles around the fields growing GM OSR

More detailed information is available within the downloadable documentation of the current LandSFACTS release.