A social multi-criteria evaluation framework for solving a real-case problem of selecting a wind farm location in the regions of Urgell and La Conca de Barberà in Catalonia (northeast of Spain) is studied. This paper applies a qualitative MCDA approach based on linguistic labels assessment able to address uncertainty and deal with different levels of precision. This method is based on qualitati...

Criteria need to be developed to evaluate the cultural environment of European rural landscapes. The goal is to evaluate and encourage the contribution of organic farming to sustainable landscape quality. Two sets of criteria were used to evaluate the quality of the cultural environment, non-expert and expert values. The non-expert values consisted of criteria for the appreciation of the presen...

It is probable that ‘The Farm Beneath the Sand’ will come to stand for a revolution in archaeological investigation. The authors show that a core of soil from an open field can provide a narrative of grazing animals, human occupation and their departure, just using DNA and AMS dating. In this case the conventional archaeological remains were nearby, and the sequence obtained by the old methods ...

The triple challenge of rapid population growth, declining agricultural productivity, and natural resource degradation are not isolated from one another; they are intimately related. However, strategic planning and development programming tend to focus on individual sectors such as the environment, agriculture, and population; they do not explicitly take into account the compatibilities and inc...

Keynotes Dr. James Smithies: Building the Canterbury Earthquakes Digital Archive Senior Lecturer in Digital Humanities, University of Canterbury Dr. Ray Hidayat: Interesting Algorithms in Telogis Route Telogis Route is full of complex algorithms. When planning driver territories, how can we estimate the required driving time quickly? When optimising routes, how can we discourage routes from ove...

Planning is essential to the successful conversion of conventional to organic farming. Currently, advisors base planning on personal experience and expertise, historical and market data. The process can be time consuming and expensive. A new software package designed to support this process has been developed. The software enables the user to construct conversion scenarios for a farm over a per...

Recently, the ant colony algorithm has been widely used in field of path planning, which is a key technology required for ship operations offshore wind farms to improve navigation efficiency and power generation. However, defects long search time stagnation early stage operation maintenance planning farms, it easily falls into problem local optima; furthermore, uses incremental construction bui...

This paper presents a farm management information system targeting improvements in the ease of use and sustainability robot farming systems. The integrates functionalities field survey, path planning, monitoring, controlling agricultural vehicles real time. Firstly, Grabcut-based semi-supervised registration method is proposed for arable detection from orthoimage taken by drone with an RGB came...