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DESCRIPTION:Public Institution Agricultural Institute of Republic of Srpska
  Banja Luka (JU PIRS) is a scientific institution founded in 1947.  The ba
 sic responsibilities\, mission and goals of the JU PIRS are research activ
 ities in the field of agricultural development (with the focus on general 
 interest)\, i.e. affairs that have strategic importance for Republic of Sr
 pska (one of the entities in Bosnia and Herzegovina). These activities rep
 resent the basis for effective and professional assistance to agricultural
  producers and improvement of the overall agricultural production in the R
 epublic of Srpska. A very important role of the JU PIRS is the transfer of
  new scientific and technological achievements to all interested groups. T
 he activities of the Institute are defined through the work of nine Depart
 ments. One of them is the Department of the Agroecology. The core of this 
 Department is research and application of the results in practice within t
 he fields of: Soil\, Agrochemistry\, Plant nutrition and Agroecology. The 
 overall goal of the research is the improvement of Soil fertility (by achi
 eving high and stable yields-in terms of quality and quantity) with the co
 herency to good agricultural practices and the protection of the Environme
 nt.\nThe Department of Agroecology in addition to the research in the fiel
 d of proper nutrition of agricultural breeds and protection of human envir
 onment\, since 2000 applies GIS. Due to the challenges in the development 
 of the Department/JU PIRS and the rapid growth of the FOSS4G solutions/Fre
 e and Open Geospatial data\, the Department of Agroecology has embraced th
 ose technologies and applied them in everyday work.\nAccording to the Law 
 on Agricultural Land of the Republic of Srpska\, the entity itself\, munic
 ipalities and cities are obliged to prepare a planning document “Groundw
 ork for Agricultural Land Protection\, Use and Restructuring (The groundwo
 rk)”. JU PIRS\, i.e. the Department of Agroecology is legit to do such a
  job. Information related to the current state of land cover and land use 
 are essential for The groundwork. The Department of Agriculture uses FOSS4
 G and Free and Open Geospatial Data to gather\, analyze\, process/elaborat
 e and visualize land cover and land use data. The basic idea is to disting
 uish what is agricultural land and what belongs to non-agricultural land. 
 Practically speaking\, the following solutions are used:\n1.	The OpenStree
 tMap is used to distinguish the boundaries of the land covered with forest
  and water-bodies. \n2.	QGIS is used to visualize all geospatial data rela
 ted to land cover and land use\, to edit and delineate classes. Besides\, 
 the QGIS (with the GRASS GIS and SAGA GIS) is applied to process data rela
 ted to soil fertility and agricultural land contamination.\n3.	Sentinel-2 
 data (with combination of available ortho-photo imagery) is applied in the
  process of the delineation of land cover land use classes.\nBesides the a
 pplication of FOSS4G solution in everyday job\, the Department of Agroecol
 ogy is transferring the knowledge to the final users using same technologi
 es.
DTSTAMP:20260527T112602Z
LOCATION:SA01
SUMMARY:The Importance of FOSS4G and Open Geospatial data for agricultural 
 land use planning - StefanJovanovic
URL:https://talks.staging.osgeo.org/foss4g-europe-2025/talk/VJKMVM/
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