Background

A collaboration of students and researchers from the University of Salzburg’s Department of Geoinformatics - Z_GIS participated in the first Austrian Copernicus Hackathon in Vienna in November 2016 and won first place for their sharecropper concept.
The project will continue to develop and aims to monitor issues of food security and land grabbing in connection with potential human rights and environmental abuses.
Free and open satellite imagery, crowd-sourced data and other volunteered and available data will be used to create meaningful information for public use, improving transparency of current systems and awareness of human and environmental threats.
Palm oil production is the focus of the first case study.

Intent

Our intent is to monitor changes in land use and land ownership, increasing transparency, awareness and accountability related to crop cultivation using open, volunteered and collectively curated data.

Partners

We are currently cooperating with the following partners:

Contact

sharecropper team
info@sharecropper.earth
Schillerstraße 30
5020 Salzburg, Austria

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