Estonia’s first science-based, spatially enabled decision support system.
Land use directly affects biodiversity, soil health, and carbon stocks, while increasing development pressure is competing with areas of high ecological value. The aim of the project is to develop Estonia’s first science-based, spatially explicit decision support system that integrates existing environmental and socio-economic datasets into a unified, systematic, and automated platform for land-use planning and management.
The solution will improve the accessibility, comparability, and operational use of data, providing comprehensive decision support for both national strategic planning and reporting (e.g. LULUCF, the Nature Restoration Regulation, and the Soil Monitoring Directive) as well as spatial planning at the municipal level.
The methodology is based on developing indicators of ecological condition, soil health, and climate, and integrating them into a unified spatial data cube. Within this framework, multidimensional indices and land-use scenarios will be generated. Alternative land-use scenarios will be evaluated using multi-criteria analysis, and the results will be presented through an interactive web-based decision support tool.
Principal investigator: Evelyn Uuemaa, 01.05.2026−30.04.2028
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Funding agency: Estonian Research Council
