Researchprojects

2021 / 07

BAB 002/86: Preparation of documents for the mountain farm cadastre (BHK) and the severity point system

Ongoing cooperation in the "Federal Commission for the Survey and Evaluation of the Hardship Conditions of Mountain Farms" (BUKO) as well as in the editorial and project team of the BUKO was the focus of this project for many years. Documents were prepared for the BUKO, the editorial team and the BMLFUW, especially in connection with the implementation of the mountain farm cadastre. In recent years, the focus has been on implementing the concept of aggravating points for all farms in the...

BAB 026/19: Retro-digitization of the print holdings published by the Federal Institute of Agri-cultural Economics (BAWI) and the Federal Institute for Less Favoured and Mountainous Areas

It is a sad fact that, on the one hand, literature searches at universities and research institutions are increasingly only using online sources for scientific work and citations and, on the other hand, at the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics and, to a lesser extent, at the Federal Institute for Mountain Farming, print collections published by these institutes are available in large numbers and of high professional value, but without digital copies. Therefore, in the course of...

AWI 178/16 EU: SIMRA-Social Innovations in Marginalised Rural Areas (H2020 Project)

Initial situation Against the background of the Europe 2020 Strategy (smart, sustainable, inclusive growth), regionally very different developments are a challenge for rural development. Social innovations (SI) are seen alongside technical innovations as an effective way to make better use of existing resources and thus contribute to resilience and sustainability, especially in structurally weak regions. SIMRA aims to identify and assess the diversity and complexity of social innovations and...

BAB 022/19: Data pool: Platform for natural area controlling

Objective Storage, processing and further use of project data from ACube and BMon in the data pool, as well as provision of an operative platform for the interconnection and analysis of these data in the course of natural area controlling. Initial situation Approximately 12 TB of data from the Sentinel 1 and 2 satellites arrive at the EODC every day and are stored there on a long-term basis. In the course of the ACube (Austrian Data Cube) and BMon (Soil Moisture Monitor) projects...

BAB 023/19: Data pool: Sentinel-2 Data processing with open source

The Sentinels are a fleet of seven types of satellites that provide various freely accessible data and images for the European Commission's Copernicus programme. One of these satellites is Sentinel-2, whose data was used in this project. The main mission objectives of Sentinel-2, consisting of the two satellites Sentinel-2A and Sentinel-2B, are to acquire global high-resolution multispectral imagery with a high repetition rate and to provide information in the form of land cover maps, land...

2021 / 01

BAB 047/21: 50 years of agricultural policy in Austria

The Ministry of Agriculture was founded in 1868 and has played a key role in the country's policy areas ever since. In 1967, the publication ‘100 Years of the Ministry of Agriculture’ was therefore published, providing an in-depth scientific review of the history of the ministry. 2018 marked the 150th anniversary of the founding of the Ministry of Agriculture - reason enough to document another 50 years of the Ministry of Agriculture. Objective The publication is intended to provide a...

BAB 050/21: Soil Data Analysis - Financial Soil Estimation and Soil Mapping (BODAT)

In the BODAT project, possible applications of the two area-related soil data sets (financial soil valuation, soil map) of Austria were evaluated and possibilities of use for agricultural management and agricultural policy measures were investigated. In addition, the possibility of merging the two area-based soil data sets was examined and the correlation of individual soil parameters with remote sensing data as well as results of the GIS-ELA project were analyzed. For the project areas,...

BAB 046/21: ERASMUS+ – Strengthening Social Capital in Rural Communities for Rural Development

The concept of social capital has been an important component of policy instruments for rural development and local governance for some time. Its importance has also been increasingly recognised in Turkey in recent years. The ERAS-MUS+ programme aims to strengthen local social capital in rural regions of Turkey in order to further develop economic perspectives, endogenous potentials and local governance in rural areas, but also in the related urban regions. Turkey's rural development policy...

BAB 049/21: Open Data Cube as data repository and analysis tool for drought monitoring

Development of analysis tools for recurring agricultural policy issues based on the example of drought monitoring A data cube (ODC) was set up at the Federal Institute of Agricultural Economics and Mountain Farming (BAB) in order to efficiently manage and analyze the constantly growing amount of raster data. The unique feature of the BAB's Open Data Cube is the extension of the technology originally intended for satellite images so that other data can also be indexed and loaded as time...

BAB 048/21: Image matching of aerial imagery using graphics processors to create up-to-date surface models.

The aerial images for the entire Austrian federal territory are updated in a three-year cycle, with around one third of the national territory being reflown each year. These aerial surveys are commissioned as part of a federal-state cooperation and are primarily used to create two-dimensional orthophotos (rectified, true-to-scale aerial images) for a variety of applications. The original aerial images are recorded with a transverse and longitudinal overlap, which makes it possible to...

2020 / 12

BAB 044/20: The Challenge of Land Abandonment after 2020 and Options for Mitigating Measures

Initial situation The problem of abandonment of agricultural land is a central challenge for many European regions in view of the efforts to achieve sustainable development. Within the framework of the work of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development, the European Parliament has invited tenders for a study on this topic and selected the joint offer of ÖIR and BAB for implementation. The study is to present an overview of the European situation within the next few months and to put...

BAB 043/20: Vulnerability of Austrian food production to crises due to the consequences of Covid-19

Initial situation With the "measures" that the federal government has taken to contain the spread of the Covid-19 virus, the food supply of the population, and thus the food value chain, has moved to centre stage through the responsibility of the LMBG (Food Management Act) in the department. The food production value chain in Austria is basically organised in a very division of labour. Agricultural primary production is embedded in upstream and downstream economic sectors. Upstream are...

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