Project Aims
Tellus Border is a regional environmental survey. Its aims are ambitious and wide-ranging.
Modern mapping techniques will allow us to:
Project Benefits
Project results will benefit Ireland’s environment, economy, agriculture, land management and public health.
These benefits will include:
Tellus Border is a regional environmental survey. Its aims are ambitious and wide-ranging.
Modern mapping techniques will allow us to:
- Generate integrated, high quality data on the environment of the border counties
- Define environmental baselines for measuring future change
- Encourage research and innovation
- Inform sustainable land use planning
- Promote investment in mineral exploration
Project Benefits
Project results will benefit Ireland’s environment, economy, agriculture, land management and public health.
These benefits will include:- High quality data for environmental research
- Improved baseline information to inform planning
- Improved cross-border environmental management
- Increased investment in mineral exploration
- Communication of the value of environmental science to the public
- Improved understanding of wetlands and peat
- New method for landfill/pollution plume detection