Prairie and tree planting tool-PT² (1.0): a conservation decision support tool for Iowa, USA.

ABSTRACT: This article overviews the prairie and tree planting tool or PT² (1.0), an online GIS-based decision support tool for landowners interested in exploring opportunities to plant prairie or trees in and around their farm fields for conservation or production purposes. PT² 1.0 can be found online at: https://pt2.nrem.iastate.edu/. With the PT² (1.0) users locate farm fields of interest in an online aerial photograph and mapping geographic information system (GIS). Users explore areas they are considering for prairie or tree cover by examining different data layers: soil maps, 2-foot contour topography maps, LiDAR hillshade maps, and a map of current land values based on estimated land rent. Users then utilize scaled dimensional drawing tools to measure and deli

SUBMITTER: Tyndall J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8507355 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature