Mapping, monitoring, and characterization of natural, agricultural, and forested spaces

CONTEXT

Natural, agricultural, and forested
spaces for territorial sustainability

Natural, agricultural, and forested spaces are key elements for territories and fulfill numerous economic, social, and environmental functions.

Excellent levers for territorial resilience against climate change, they serve as ecological corridors within the green and blue infrastructure and constitute important refuges for biodiversity. These spaces provide numerous ecosystem services and represent a significant carbon sink.

However, in the context of increasing urbanization, pressure on Natural, agricultural, and forested spaces intensifies while the challenge of preserving these spaces is crucial: ensuring the sustainable development of agriculture, forestry, and territories. Thus, within the framework of new regulations on land sealing, changes in land use at the expense of natural, agricultural, or forested spaces must be monitored on a large scale and limited as much as possible.

OUR SOLUTION

Landia, a tool for monitoring and
characterizing this areas

 

TerraNIS provides municipalities with an operational tool for monitoring and characterizing natural, agricultural, and forested spaces using Earth observation images and land use data:

  • Extraction and characterization of hedge surfaces in a territory from very high-resolution satellite or aerial images
  • Mapping of green and blue infrastructure, agricultural, and forested areas, and creation of customized indicators
  • Mapping and characterization of agricultural areas, identification of permanent pastures, and organic farming parcels

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INDICATORS

Some examples of indicators
for your municipality

720ha

TOTAL AREA

28%

PERCENTAGE OF CULTIVATED SURFACES

25%

PERCENTAGE OF PERMANENT PASTURES

75ha

UNDER ORGANIC FARMING

36%

PERCENTAGE OF FORESTED AREA

USE CASE

Mapping and characterization of agricultural areas, identification of permanent meadows and organic farming plots

As part of the Cartovégetation project launched by FNE Ile-de-France, TerraNIS produces and enriches land use data to map the region’s green network. These very high resolution maps then serve as a basis for FNE to model the ecological continuities of the territory. Modeling ecological networks is essential to identify areas of concern, strengthen ecological corridors and preserve reservoirs of biodiversity. Through this tool, FNE wishes to raise awareness among urban planning stakeholders about issues of ecological continuity.

USE CASE

Mapping of hedges, groves and isolated trees in the Champagne Appellation to promote biodiversity in the vineyard

TerraNIS was requested by the Interprofessional Champagne Wine Committee (CIVC) to carry out a mapping of hedges, groves and isolated trees throughout the Champagne Appellation (approximately 34,000 ha). We thus extracted all the hedges, groves and isolated trees using a thresholding method, supplemented by an artificial intelligence approach. The maps produced from this data made it possible to assess the level of biodiversity of the Champagne vineyards and to study their ecological continuities.

USE CASE

SCO Eagle Hedges: Monitoring and characterization of hedges to support national policies

Hedges play a key role in agricultural landscapes and constitute excellent levers for the resilience of territories in the face of climate change. TerraNIS participated in the SCO Eagle Hedges project, which aims to develop operational tools to monitor and characterize the hedgerow network using Earth observation images. TerraNIS has therefore developed an online platform and a service making it possible to extract the surfaces and lengths of hedges in a territory and to characterize them from a morphological, structural and functional point of view.

SERVICES

Discover our other services for
managing your territories

Urban vegetation, heat islands, soil artificialization, agroecological infrastructures: discover all our services for managing your territories!

MONITORING OF URBAN VEGETATION AND
QUALITY OF LIFE OF RESIDENTS

ANALYSIS OF URBAN CLIMATOLOGY AND IDENTIFICATION OF HEAT ISLANDS

MAPPING, ANALYSIS, AND MONITORING OF LAND SEALING

MAPPING OF FOREST AREAS AND
BURNED AREAS FOLLOWING FIRES

CONTACT

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