Prof. Fabio Terribile is the coordinator of LANDSUPPORT (awarded as a “success story” by the European Commission) and explains in his video why LANDSUPPORT is breaking the wall of open access tools for agriculture, forestry and land management. LANDSUPPORT is an H2020 project aimed at developing a completely free and open-access geospatial decision support system (www.landsupport.eu) dedicated to supporting sustainable agriculture and forestry, assessing land use trade-offs and contributing to the development and implementation of land use policies in Europe and to selected United Nations SDGs. It combines satellite, drone and remote sensing data with cutting-edge models to bring relevant information into the “hands” of politicians, farmers and even citizens and help them make informed environmental choices. LANDSUPPORT brought together 19 partners from 10 countries in Europe, the Middle East and Asia, to achieve a series of innovative scientific, technical and land policy objectives. It has provided 15 macro tools, with more than 100 on operational tools, to reconcile the major political ambitions in agriculture/environmental sustainability with operational reality.
