Mapping agriculture's impact by combining farm management handbooks, life-cycle assessment and search engine science

Environmental Modelling and Software

Volumn 80, Issue , 2016, Pages 54-65

  Navarro, Javier ^a,b   Bryan, Brett A ^a   Marinoni, Oswald ^a   Eady, Sandra ^a   Halog, Anthony ^b  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Agricultural knowledge systems; Farm management handbooks; Information retrieval; Life cycle inventories; Spatial modelling; Sustainable intensification

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; FARMS; GREENHOUSE GASES; INFORMATION MANAGEMENT; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE; POPULATION STATISTICS; REMOTE SENSING;

FARM MANAGEMENT; KNOWLEDGE SYSTEM; LIFE CYCLE INVENTORY; SPATIAL MODELLING; SUSTAINABLE INTENSIFICATION;

SEARCH ENGINES;

AGRICULTURAL INTENSIFICATION; AGRICULTURAL MANAGEMENT; AGRICULTURAL PRACTICE; CENSUS; EMISSION INVENTORY; FARMERS KNOWLEDGE; LAND USE; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABILITY; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TEXTBOOK;

EID: 84959086053     PISSN: 13648152     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.envsoft.2016.02.020     Document Type: Article

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