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Monday 17 October 2005: Session 2, 11:00:00 AM
The Dane County Story Continued: What Should We Do With 400,000 Acres of Farmland?
Presentation Abstract
Dane County, WI is developing a comprehensive land use plan with the ambitious goal of identifying the best farmland and developing strategies to protect it for 50 years or more. GIS-based suitability analyses and land allocation scenario analyses could play a critical role in finding solutions satisfactory to the many competing interests in this effort.
Speaker Biographical Information
Stephen Ventura Professor, Environmental Studies & Soil Sciences: RGIS-Great Lakes, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Stephen J. Ventura is a Professor of Environmental Studies and Soil Science at University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is Chair of the Department of Soil Science, Principal Investigator of the Consortium for Rural Geospatial Innovations (RGIS), and Director of the Land Information and Computer Graphics Facility, a geographic information system (GIS) research and technology transfer laboratory. Research interests include the implementation of multi-purpose land information systems, GIS and related information technologies for land use planning and management, and land records modernization. He has also worked on applications of GIS in environmental and resource management models such as non-point source pollution, groundwater contamination, precision agriculture, vegetation mapping, habitat evaluation, and invasion of exotic species.
