AF-LPIS spatial policy models implemented for use in LL: The LPIS sustainability compass. DigitAF EU project. Deliverable 1.4

This report focuses on information collected from farmers in each Member State through the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS), consisting of parcel and sub-parcel boundaries in the Geospatial Information System (GSAA)  details on land use, crops and animals in the Land Parcel Information System (LPIS), and eventually data on ground verification from the Area Monitoring Services (AMS).  

The deliverable presents the "LPIS sustainability compass", an online spatial tool that provides a focal point to the available LPIS (provided via WFS) integrated with Copernicus data (provided via its API) while delivering seamless on the fly calculated statistical insights from these datasets related to the selected LPIS plot/farm data, providing unique contextual data to plots/farms from Copernicus services.

This information can be linked to the spatial agroforestry models being developed in the DigitAF project, and in other initiatives.  It will facilitate upscaling of results from parcels and farms to catchment and local-government scales and could contribute to the “On-farm Sustainability Compass” advocated in the recent DGAGRI “Vision for Agriculture and Food” (Box 1). This deliverable also provides a  focal point for task Task 1.5 that will further integrate environmental and economic apps with the LPIS(Box 2)  .