TY - JOUR
T1 - Gis-based model to identify marginal soils for bioenergy production
AU - Abreu, Mariana
AU - Reis, Alberto
AU - Fernando, Ana Luisa
AU - Quental, Lídia
AU - Patinha, Pedro
AU - Gírio, Francisco
N1 - Funding Information:
This work was funded by National Funding by FCT, Foundation for Science and Technology [Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, I. P. (FCT, I. P.)], MCTES, Portugal, through the individual PhD research grant of Mariana Abreu (2020.06236.BD). This work was supported by Biomass and Bioenergy Research Infrastructure (BBRI)-LISBOA-01-0145-FEDER-022059 and by Mechanical Engineering and Resource Sustainability Center—MEtRICs [national funds from FCT/MCTES (UIDB/04077/2020-2023 and UIDP/04077/2020-2023)].
Publisher Copyright:
© 2023 ETA-Florence Renewable Energies
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - Energy crops are industrial species (woody, perennial and annual species, among others) that can generate biofuels, energy and bioproducts. Due to their tolerance, there is an interest to grow energy crops in marginal/contaminated/degraded soils, avoiding Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) burdens. Therefore, this study aims at the development and use of Geographic Information System (GIS) tools to spatially relate land use selection and optimal species allocation, as an useful decision support systems (DSS), modelled to determine adequate marginal areas, inadequate for food and feed crops. ArcGIS software was used as a GIS tool, and parameters associated with areas considered to be marginal in mainland Portugal were identified. To identify marginal soils, it is necessary to know what type of criteria applies. It was considered the Regulation EU(1305)2013 - Annex III, that details all the criteria and the respective parameters, that a marginal soil should present being these, the base of this work. Considering all these criteria, a search in several databases was realized to collect the data that exist and how all these could be utilized to determine marginal soils in mainland Portugal. The maps obtained show that marginal soils in Portugal represent less than 10% of the territory.
AB - Energy crops are industrial species (woody, perennial and annual species, among others) that can generate biofuels, energy and bioproducts. Due to their tolerance, there is an interest to grow energy crops in marginal/contaminated/degraded soils, avoiding Indirect Land Use Change (ILUC) burdens. Therefore, this study aims at the development and use of Geographic Information System (GIS) tools to spatially relate land use selection and optimal species allocation, as an useful decision support systems (DSS), modelled to determine adequate marginal areas, inadequate for food and feed crops. ArcGIS software was used as a GIS tool, and parameters associated with areas considered to be marginal in mainland Portugal were identified. To identify marginal soils, it is necessary to know what type of criteria applies. It was considered the Regulation EU(1305)2013 - Annex III, that details all the criteria and the respective parameters, that a marginal soil should present being these, the base of this work. Considering all these criteria, a search in several databases was realized to collect the data that exist and how all these could be utilized to determine marginal soils in mainland Portugal. The maps obtained show that marginal soils in Portugal represent less than 10% of the territory.
KW - bioenergy
KW - biofuel
KW - biomass
KW - geographic information system (GIS)
KW - marginal soils
KW - model
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85174573540
SN - 2282-5819
SP - 275
EP - 280
JO - European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Proceedings
JF - European Biomass Conference and Exhibition Proceedings
T2 - 31st European Biomass Conference and Exhibition, EUBCE 2023
Y2 - 5 June 2023 through 8 June 2023
ER -