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Task 1: Identification and characterisation of HNV farmland and forests at a national scale

Task Overview

This task focuses on the development of HNV Forest indicators, data availability and the establishment of HNV farmland and forest typologies.
2020-03-01
3 June 2023
2022-12-03

Task Start

Location: Teagasc, UCD, ATU/GMIT

Current Status

In Progress

Task Due Date

2022-12-03

Objectives

• Review existing literature and recommended indicators of HNV forestry at a national and international scale
• Identify available and suitable datasets to identify HNV forestry
• Review and revise existing approaches for the identification HNV farmland
• Establish HNV farmland and forest typologies

Outcomes

• A list of recommended indicators from national and international studies
• A GIS geo-database containing available indicator data
• New HNVFF typologies

2021

A landscape classification map of Ireland and its potential use in national land use monitoring

This study presents a novel landscape classification map of the Republic of Ireland and is the first to identify broad landscape classes by incorporating physiographic and land cover data.
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Spring/Summer 2020

Forestry& Energy REVIEW Volume 10 Issue 1

Introduction to project aims and output
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December 2019

Irish Farmers Journal

Introduction to project aims and objectives.
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High Nature Value forest in Ireland: Definition, identification, mapping approach and diversity.
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This project is funded by the Department of Agriculture Food and the Marine Research Stimulus Fund

  • High Nature Value Farmland and Forests, GMIT