Digital Toolshed: LandscapeDNA (5 July 2023)

The LandscapeDNA information hub gives you access to interactive maps that allow you to explore land right down to property scale, and understand which contaminants are most susceptible to loss, how they travel, and where they end up.

These insights allow farmers to identify actions they can take to minimise water contamination risks from their property.

In this webinar, you will learn to use LandscapeDNA to identify key water quality contaminants for a farm and the contributing catchment area, match land management and intervention actions to the contaminant flow pathway, and explore the actions library for more information on mitigations.

Dr. Lisa Pearson will demonstrate LandscapeDNA’s interactive maps and provide an overview of the Physiographic Environment Classification. Lisa is joined by Poppy Hardie who, along with her husband Grant, farms sheep and cattle over two properties in the northern Southland area.

This tool is now accessible at landscapedna.org and was developed using research from the Physiographic Environments of New Zealand project.

Webinar aired at 11am on 5 July 2023.