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The Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) enables the simulation of watershed and river basin quantity and quality of surface and ground water under the influence of land use, management, and climate change. It can be used to monitor and control soil erosion, non-point source pollution and basin management. The recent version (SWAT+) was implemented by a dedicated QGIS plugin (QSWAT) widening the userbase and the potential modelling application worldwide. QSWAT, along with additional software for preparing the input dataset and for performing the calibration/validation phase, further extends the watershed modelling capabilities. Such tools and the growing diffusion of public open geospatial datasets are expected to increase the range of applications especially with the availability climate projections datasets. The latter will enable users to simulate all the watersoil phenomena at watershed level under future conditions to better understand and plan suitable action for preserving the natural resources. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Open LOD platform based on HPC capabilities for Integrated Administration and Control System of Common Agrarian Policy (Open IACS) is an EU funded project (4.5 MEur) fostering the administrative data reuse in the context of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) and granting open access to farmers, policy makers and third parties. Data from European paying agencies for agriculture will be harmonised, and a network of Linked Open Data will be developed. An interoperable system of EU High Performance Computing Centres will provide a platform for demonstrating different use case scenarios (e.g. applications for computing CAP performance indicators, climate change indicators and integration between environmental and agricultural data). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]