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Volume 9
Journal of Bioremediation & Biodegradation
ISSN: 2155-6199
Biofuel Congress 2018 &
Biomass 2018
September 04-06, 2018
JOINT EVENT
September 04-06, 2018 | Zurich, Switzerland
13
th
Global Summit and Expo on
Biomass and Bioenergy
&
12
th
World Congress on
Biofuels and Bioenergy
BIORAISE: A GIS tool for the evaluation of agricultural and forestry available biomass resources
and costs in Mediterranean Countries
Eva Sevillano Marco, Paloma Pérez Ortiz, Luis S Esteban
and
Juan Carrasco
CEDER-CIEMAT Spain
T
he previous version of BIORAISE has been updated and extended to serve georeferenced quantitative data of biomass
resources from agriculture, forestry and scrublands. BIORAISE is an open access GIS tool embedding sustainable biomass
resources, environmental risks visualization and on-field exploitation costs covering Portugal, Spain, France, Italy, Croatia,
Slovenia, Greece and Turkey. Additionally relevant stakeholders’ information is also indicated. Georeferenced information is
computed on the fly from user-selected locations (pick-up point and area of interest, either within a user-choice circular radio
or an administrative boundary from municipality to European Nomenclature of Territorial Units for Statistics NUT3 limits):
surfaces (hectares), potential biomass resources (tonnes of dry matter/year) and a more realistic availability derived from
harvesting efficiency rates in the case of agricultural resources while considering slope percent rise, soil erosion risk and topsoil
organic carbon content (30 cm depth) in the case of forestry resources, together with estimated harvesting and transport costs
(€/tonnes of dry matter). Regarding quality parameters, the service provides energy content (GJ/year), and ashes content (%
dry matter) on the basis of numbers obtained in a complete laboratory characterization study from biomass samples from
the selected countries. The calorific values are updated depending on moisture content choices. The stakeholders databases
consists of producers (raw biomass producers, wood, olive oil, nut hulling, and wine sector –distilleries- industries) and other
actors (e.g., equipment and machines for industry, services and facilities, manufacture of biofuels and biomass valorisation,
biofuel dealers, research centres, large consumers, and BIOMASUD PLUS biofuel producers). EUROSTAT, national forest
inventories, and other statistical data have been integrated in the geospatial agriculture, shrub and forestry surfaces in CORINE
LAND COVER 2012. Geoprocessing steps apply residues productivity rates, biofuels annual production data and achieve a
compromise between local specifications, consistency of results, data harmonization and homogeneity for such a large area.
Biography
Eva Sevillano Marco is Extensive mix of social science and technical research approaches, promoting interaction among stakeholders. Collaboration in national and
European projects: local action groups, regional governments, forest owners associations, SMEs, universities and research centres in several countries. Essentially,
much of my work looks at how research could serve societies at large, and includes participation mechanisms. Research projects linked to nature conservation, rural
development and forestry. Topics: local management, forest inventory, silviculture, growth & biomass modelling, suitability mapping, forest attributes estimation using RS
and GIS tools, quality indicators spatialization and uncertainty assessment.
evasevillano@yahoo.esEva Sevillano Marco et al., J Bioremediat Biodegrad 2018, Volume 9
DOI: 10.4172/2155-6199-C1-014