BIOPLAT-EU
RUNNING TIME:
11/2018
—
10/2021
Total project duration:
3 Years
The project
The aim of the BIOPLAT-EU project was to utilise unused land for sustainable energy production. The task of JR was to identify these areas on the basis of satellite image time series. The results show that it is possible to provide high-quality maps of unutilised areas. Particularly in the Mediterranean region, the dense time series makes it possible to differentiate between unused and used areas based on the typical reflection behaviour over time.
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Project partners
WIRTSCHAFT UND INFRASTRUKTUR GMBH & CO PLANUNGS KG Germany
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS FAO Italy
GEONARDO ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES LTD Hungary
FORSHUNGSINSTITUTE FUR BERGBAUFOLGELANDSCAFTEN E.V. Germany
CONSIGLIO PER LA RICERCA IN AGRICOLTURA E L'ANALISI DELL'ECONOMIA AGRARIA Italy
NAUKOVO-TEHNICHNII CENTAR BIOMASA LLC Ukraine
UNIVERSIDAD DE CASTILLA - LA MANCHA Spain
CENTRUL PENTRU PROMOVAREA ENERGIEI CURATE SI EFICIENTA IN ROMANIA ENERO ASOCIATIEI Romania
EUROPEAN LANDOWNERS ORGANIZATION Belgium
1to3 Capital B.V. Netherlands
NESTE OYJ Finland
Project details
These areas are understood to be marginal, unused and contaminated (MUC) areas that are not (or cannot be) used for food or animal feed production and also have no function as a recreational area or biodiversity store. These areas can therefore be used for the production of biomass for energy utilisation without competition for use. Decision-makers (commercial enterprises, landowners, administrators) are often unaware of such utilisation.
BIOPLAT-EU will provide a web-based GIS platform that will allow users to inform themselves in a simple way about the potential utilisation possibilities. In addition to the area delimitation (from remote sensing time series data and other alternative data sources), the platform includes a tool developed by the FAO for the sustainable, technological-economic and environmentally compatible analysis of possible value chains (STEN Tool). Other aspects of the project include the intensive involvement of stakeholders in order to remove legal barriers and the analysis of financial opportunities for the concrete implementation of bioenergy projects on such areas.
In addition to a Europe-wide and Ukraine-wide map of unutilised and contaminated areas with a lower level of detail, 12 case study areas were selected for which more detailed data was used. The contaminated areas were derived from existing maps of heavy metal contamination of European soils. Copernicus products, such as the so-called "High Resolution Layers", and time series image data from the European Sentinel-2 satellite and other satellite systems were used to classify the unused areas.
The initial results show that it is possible to provide high-quality maps of the unutilised areas. Particularly in the Mediterranean region, the dense time series enables clear differentiation based on the typical reflection behaviour over the last few years.
The results show that it is possible to provide high-quality maps of the unused areas. Especially in the Mediterranean region, the dense time series enables a clear differentiation based on the typical reflection behaviour over the last few years. The results were integrated into the Bioplat-EU WebGIS tool:
Fördergeber
Dieses Projekt wurde von der Europäischen Union im Rahmen des Horizon2020 Programms für Forschung und Innovation unter der Fördervertragsnummer818083 gefördert.
