Ready for integrated sustainable agricultural land management?

Baldwin, E. and Opitz, R. (2023) Ready for integrated sustainable agricultural land management? Project Report. Zenodo. (doi: 10.5281/zenodo.7862421).

Abstract

Remote and near surface sensing technologies underpin the precision agricultural methods used to manage land productively and sustainably and the archaeological prospection methods used to identify, evaluate, and manage heritage features within that land sustainably and for the public benefit. Users of these technologies and the data they produce are engaged in a shared project, managing agricultural land, but direct collaborations between them remain rare. The disjuncture between individuals and organisations working in these domains has led to data silos and collection of incompatible data, missed opportunities to improve methods through knowledge exchange and technology transfer, and gaps in the knowledge about agricultural soil systems needed for decision making. The ipaast project investigated the extent to which stakeholders in sensing for land management are informed, willing, enabled, and motivated to change their working practices to facilitate collaborations designed to improve outcomes of using sensing data across precision agriculture, agri-environmental management, archaeology, and heritage management. This report presents an assessment of current stakeholder views and identifies opportunities for collaboration around using sensing data for land management, together with key barriers.

• Item Type: Research Reports or Papers (Project Report)
• Status: Published
• Glasgow Author(s) Enlighten ID: Baldwin, Mr Eamonn and Opitz, Dr Rachel
• Authors: Baldwin, E., and Opitz, R.
• College/School: College of Arts & Humanities > School of Humanities > Archaeology
• Publisher: Zenodo
• Copyright Holders: Copyright © 2023 The Authors
• Publisher Policy: Reproduced under a Creative Commons License
• Data DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.7831649

Project Code	Award No	Project Name	Principal Investigator	Funder's Name	Funder Ref	Lead Dept
312921		Developing a method for studying the Critical Zone: Connecting Archaeological and Precision Agricultural approaches to agrarian landscapes by making their advanced sensing data interoperable	Rachel Opitz	British Academy (BRITACAD)	KF5210407	Arts - Archaeology