Other State Government Projects
- Use of biosolids for mine reclamation
- Production of digital soils data for PA
- Development of a PA Vineyard Site Assessment System
- PA Spatial Data Clearinghouse (PASDA)
- Generation of Spatial Conservation Easements for PA Farmland Protection Program
- Mapping animal operations in PA using GIS
- GIS activities and the Department of Agriculture
- Riparian forest inventory and anaylsis for Virginia using GIS
Research: State Government Projects
Generation of a Spatial Conservation Easements Database
for the Pennsylvania Farmland Protection Program – Phase III
Funding Agency: PA Dept of Agriculture
Project Dates: 10/1/02 – 6/30/04
Primary Researcher: Greg Luna
The LAL maintains the GIS database of all farms where PDA funding has been used to purchase a conservation easement to prevent any further development from occurring.
Greg is creating a statewide master easement layer that shows all of the preserved farmland for Pennsylvania; to do this, the easement legal descriptions or traverses are used to place the easements within ArcMap.
Regular updates are provided to PA Department of Agriculture. This data is in turn made available to PDA employees via an internal database.
The Penn State Cooperative Extension, Geospatial Technology Program (GTP) Land Analysis Lab is a research,
cooperative extension, and teaching program in the Department of Crop and Soil Sciences at The Pennsylvania State University.
We specialize in the use of GIS and related advanced information system technologies for environmental assessment, agriculture,
and land management and planning.
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