Techno-economic feasibility of a system to measure farm environmental impact towards a Sustainable Intensification Audit & Management System- SIAMS

为了衡量“可持续集约化”，我们必须将作物产量（集约化）和毛利率（经济可持续性）与相关的、可量化的环境影响指标（环境可持续性）进行比较。农民应该考虑的主要环境指标是水管理/污染；温室气体排放与生物多样性。我们建议开发一个系统来吸收、计算和显示这些环境影响数据以及产量、质量和财务绩效数据，以逐个领域地创建农场物理、财务和环境绩效的有价值的代表。这项可行性研究将着眼于利用GateKeeper（农场数据软件工具）和其他几个数据源中已经存储的数据的潜力，结合一系列模型中的新农场规模数据，融合在一个我们称为SIAMS的单一软件系统中。这些模型将帮助农场经理和农学家识别和修改他们的农艺投入，避免浪费和潜在有害的应用。根据可行性研究结果，我们将需要开发数据融合平台和可能的两个系统，用于捕获和分析本地动植物数据。这项技术可以使英国农业处于精准农业和可持续集约化的前沿。

To measure ‘sustainable intensification’ we must compare crop yield (intensification) & gross margin (economic sustainability) with relevant, quantifiable environmental impact indicators (environmental sustainability). The main environmental indicators farmers should consider are Water Management/Pollution; Greenhouse Gas Emissions & Biodiversity. We propose to develop a system to assimilate, calculate & display this environmental impact data alongside yield, quality & fiscal performance data to create a valuable representation of farm physical, financial & environmental performance on a field by field basis. This feasibility study will look at the potential of utilising data already stored within GateKeeper (a farm data software tool) and several other data sources, combined with new farm scale data in a series of models, fused in a single software system we call SIAMS. These models will help the farm manager & agronomist identify & modify their agronomic inputs avoiding wasteful & potentially harmful applications. Subject to feasibility study results we will then need to develop the data fusion platform & possibly two systems for capturing & analysing localised flora & fauna data. This technology could position UK agriculture at the forefront of precision farming & sustainable intensification.