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LandSFACTS

LANDscape Scale Functional Allocation of Crops Temporally and Spatially

LandSFACTS [1] is a modelling tool to create scenarios of crops or land uses within the landscape. The model provides a crop/ land use per land unit per year, which meets user-specified spatial and temporal constraints on the crops/land uses. The software is spatio-temporal and allows multi-scaling. The modelling is based on stochastic and rule-based processes complemented with simulated annealing.

Screenshot of the main interface of the LandSFACTS software [2]

The model is currently used to create scenarios of cropping systems and land uses from the farm level up to the regional scale in order to assess ecosystem services, such as biodiversity, water quality, soil erosion, carbon sequestration.

Further information on LandSFACTS

  • Model details (inputs/outputs) [3]
  • LandSFACTS downloads [4]
  • Publications. [5]
Related Staff

Related staff 

Marie Castellazzi [6]
Related Content

Related content 

Scenarios and land use futures [7]
Virtual Landscape Theatre [8]
LandSFACTS model details (inputs/outputs) [9]
LandSFACTS publications [10]

1. External link title 

Adaptive strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of Climate Change on European Freshwater Ecosystems

1. External link 

http://www.refresh.ucl.ac.uk/webfm_send/1537

2. External link title 

Agricultural land-use modelling (within the UncertWeb Project)

2. External link 

http://www.uncertweb.org/uploads/presentations/0818dc4d839ebad8427bf6034d47ddc4814262c4.pdf

3. External link title 

Scottish Government Strategic Research Programme Land Use Theme - Optimising Land Use work package

3. External link 

http://www.scotland.gov.uk/Topics/Research/About/EBAR/StrategicResearch/future-research-strategy/Themes/Theme3

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Links:
[1] http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1860416
[2] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/sites/default/files/images/research/rlp/LandSFACTS_screenshotSoftware2.png
[3] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/landsfacts/model-details
[4] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/landsfacts/downloads
[5] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/landsfacts/publications
[6] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/staff/marie-castellazzi
[7] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/research/archive/2011-16/realising-lands-potential/scenarios-and-land-use-futures
[8] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/learning/exhibits/vlt
[9] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/research/departments/information-and-computational-sciences/tools/landsfacts/model-details
[10] https://www.hutton.ac.uk/research/departments/information-and-computational-sciences/tools/landsfacts/publications