LAND IT - Land ANalysis and Design of the Integrated areas of the Territory

PRESENTATION

LAND IT is a spatial decision support system, available as a web app, designed to assist AIGP managing entities in planning and executing territorial reorganisation. This reorganisation aims to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of land management while making the landscape more resilient to large wildfires, as seen in the municipality of Mação.
This system allows users to develop territorial reorganisation scenarios and define the operations to be implemented during transformation. Additionally, users can share scenarios with each other, analyse them, and compare them statistically to select the best solution for the territory. LAND IT

IMAGES & VIDEOS

Define Polygon Transformation

Scenario Editing

RELATED PUBLICATIONS

Master’s Thesis: Decision Support System for Integrated Landscape Management Areas

Márcia Matias
December 2023

This master’s thesis was the foundation for LAND IT. The main features available in LAND IT were developed during this research, such as scenario analysis and comparison, scenario sharing, and the creation and editing of geometries within scenarios. The case study used for its development was the municipality of Mação and its nine AIGPs.

Master’s Thesis: Economic Sustainability Models for Land Use in Rural Areas

Lucas Almeida, Maria Catarina Pereira, Mariana Godinho, Margarida Pinto, Nuno Baptista
January 2025

This thesis focuses on post-territorial reorganisation, aiming to develop economic models to calculate the profits and costs associated with land use in the years following transformation. The study covered the following land uses: maritime pine, eucalyptus, cork oak, and olive groves. Additionally, a feasibility analysis was conducted on the installation of solar panels in the municipality of Mação.

AGILE Article: LAND IT: A Decision Support System for Optimising Land Use Planning Strategies

Márcia B. Matias, Cristina D. Henriques, Carlos Viegas Damásio, Fernando Birra, João Moura Pires
June 2025

Portugal has faced severe wildfires, leading to the creation of the AIGP programme aimed at making the landscape more resilient. To optimise this process, LAND IT was developed — a decision support system that facilitates the creation and management of territorial design proposals. It enables scenario comparison and helps prevent input errors. The municipality of Mação was used as a case study and showed very positive results.

Master’s Thesis: Intelligent Tools for Editing Land Use Proposals

Francisco Freire
June 2025

The objective of this research is to add editing tools to LAND IT, including geometry editing tools, topological verification tools, and intelligent tools to assist users in the creation of AIGP proposals, such as a filtering system.

Master’s Thesis: LAND IT - Assisted and Collaborative Territorial Reorganisation Editing

Pedro Grilo
Ongoing

Currently, LAND IT has very basic collaboration features, such as timers for handling requests. This thesis aims to identify and improve all use cases where real-time updates are essential. Furthermore, it will explore collaborative map editing, enabling multiple users to draw geometries within the same scenario simultaneously.

Master’s Thesis: LAND IT – Development of an Extension System

Diogo Moreira
Ongoing

As LAND IT is a growing platform that continuously evolves alongside the development of AIGP, new functionalities are always required. To facilitate this ongoing integration, the objective of this thesis is to develop an extension system that enables the modular addition of new features without modifying the system’s core code.

OPEN SOURCE PROJECTS

OpenLayers Style Editor

This project is an extension for OpenLayers, an open-source library for map visualization. The extension aims to provide a geometry style editor with an intuitive interface for end users. Four types of styles are available: unique symbol, categorized, quantitative and based on rules.