Land consolidation based on cluster analysis

Abstract

The optimisation of land use structure is crucial to have a competitive agricultural production. In Hungary land consolidation lacks some important conditions such as a reasonable decision making support system based on Geoinformatics. In the paper, we optimize the land structure based on landownership. The present paper analyses the DigiTerra software that operates on the basis of Cluster Analysis and it provides a solution for the development. The improved software is introduced on a sample area. The efficiency of the allocation is proven by the internationally accepted fragmentation (Simmons, Januszewski, Igozurike) indices for parcels.