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Creating water-smart landscapes

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of priority areas will be important for ensuring cost-effective interventions to reduce the impact of intensive agriculture. The aim of the proposed project is to develop an analysis, modelling, and machine learning (ML) framework for finding spatially optimal land management scenarios for implementing NbS such as wetlands and riparian buffer strips to reduce agricultural nutrient runoff from catchments at different scales. Moreover, the project will identify the landscape predictor variables at different spatial scales for nutrient concentrations and their cross-scale interactions using ML. We will implement a novel Discrete Global Grid System data cube to manage all environmental data needed for modelling. We will take advantage of the strength and flexibility of existing ML methods to deal with complex ecosystem responses, and to reveal new interactions among water quality predictor variables. ML together with geospatial analysis will help us to develop different spatially explicit NbS allocation scenarios which we will evaluate with process-based hydrological modelling. In addi

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award

status

SIGNED

region

EU

value

1909500

unit

EUR