On-going projects
AfriCultuReS / H2020 Project
Enhancing Food Security in African AgriCultural Systems with the support of Remote Sensing.
AfriCultuReS // Enhancing Food Security in African AgriCultural Systems with the support of Remote Sensing.
Grant agreement no : 774652
Duration : 11/2017 – 11/2021
Budget : € 8,531,533
AfriCultuReS aims to design, implement and demonstrate an integrated agricultural monitoring and early warning system that will support decision making in the field of food security. AfriCultuReS delivers a broad range of climatic, production, biophysical and economic information, for various regions in Africa. AfriCultuReS applies geospatial science to sustainable agricultural development, natural resource management, biodiversity conservation, and poverty alleviation in Africa.
EUXDAT / H2020 Project
European e-Infrastructure for Extreme Data Analytics in Sustainable Development
EUXDAT // European e-Infrastructure for Extreme Data Analytics in Sustainable Development
Grant agreement no: 777549
Duration: 11/2017 – 10/2020
Total budget: 2,999,062.50 EUR
Agriculture is a, literally, vital industry. Not only important for nourishment, but also a key determinant of health, economic and political stability; employment; business and biological ecosystems; and society. Because of its importance, most attention focuses on productivity but it is essential to have a global view in order to address environment sustainability problems. EUXDAT proposes an e-Infrastructure, which addresses agriculture, land monitoring and energy efficiency for a sustainable development, as a way to support planning policies.
SIEUSOIL / H2020 Project
Sino-EU Soil Observatory for Intelligent Land Use Management
SIEUSOIL // Sino-EU Soil Observatory for Intelligent Land Use Management
Grant agreement no: 818346
Duration: 6/2019 – 5/2022
Total budget: 6,875,350 EUR
SIEUSOIL aims to develop sustainable and holistic soil management practices based on a harmonised land information system suitable for diverse climate and operation conditions along different EU and China locations. A research platform consisting of advanced crop and soil sensing tools, modelling and data fusion, digital soil mapping and farm management information systems will be developed to maximise land productivity and socio-economic benefits, while minimising the environmental impacts.
STARGATE / H2020 Project
reSilienT fARminG by Adaptive microclimaTe managEment
STARGATE // reSilienT fARminG by Adaptive microclimaTe managEment
Grant agreement no: 818187
Duration: 10/2019 – 9/2023
Total budget: 6,994,405 EUR
STARGATEs contribution beyond state-of-the-art in applied climatic data solutions is the implementation of analytics models to support local and regional policy formulation and implementation related to mitigation on microclimate changes. Currently, policy making organizations predominantly utilize own data, typically limited to their own jurisdiction/administrative area. However, once the policy development process expands the evidence base and data sources beyond the traditional approach, there is need for global data. The addition of national, European and even global reference data sets for comparative analysis — including meteorological, climatic analysis, satellite data sources to improve decision making processes. The studies at landscape scale are required to understand leading ecological processes. The focus will be on Climate Smart Agriculture (CSA) and will extensively study the benefits of applying agri-environment-climate technical solutions to achieve sustainable agricultural development at landscape level.
Project page (stargateproject.eu)
ATLAS / H2020 Project
Agricultural Interoperability and Analysis System
ATLAS // Agricultural Interoperability and Analysis System
Grant agreement no: 857125
Duration: 10/2019 – 9/2022
Total budget: 15,406,420 €
Growing a new digital era in agriculture. Advanced digital technology and data play a vital role in ensuring sustainable production in today’s agricultural industry. The EU-funded ATLAS project aims to develop an open platform and create a sustainable environment for innovative agriculture. The project will address the lack of data interoperability in agriculture by combining the use of agricultural equipment with sensor systems and data analysis. The ATLAS platform aims to deliver a service offering hardware and software interoperability using data from sensors to demonstrate the benefits of digital agriculture in a wide range of sectors affecting modern agriculture.
GRAPEVINE / INEA Project
hiGh peRformAnce comPuting sErvices for preVentIon and coNtrol of pEsts in fruit crops
GRAPEVINE // hiGh peRformAnce comPuting sErvices for preVentIon and coNtrol of pEsts in fruit crops
Grant agreement no: 857125
Duration: 10/2019 – 9/2022
Total budget: 2,481,670 €
The main objectives of this action is to promote the use of existing open data, HPC and data infrastructures by creating a predictive model based on Machine Learning techniques to improve the prevention and control of mildew and other grape wine diseases in the wine cultivation sector. Better monitoring and early reactions against highly destructive diseases will enable a decrease in the amount of fungicide and the number of protective treatments. This will help to introduce sustainability criteria in agricultural production by offering consumers higher quality and safer agricultural products. In addition, the established approach has potential to be reused for monitoring and eliminating other fruit crop pests in the future.
Project page (under construction)
BACCHUS / H2020 Project
MoBile Robotic PlAtforms for ACtive InspeCtion and Harvesting in AgricUltural AreaS
BACCHUS // MoBile Robotic PlAtforms for ACtive InspeCtion and Harvesting in AgricUltural AreaS
Grant agreement no: 871704
Duration: 1/2020 – 12/2022
Total budget: 5,104,943.75 €
BACCHUS intelligent mobile robotic system promises to reproduce hand harvesting operations, while at the same time take the manual legwork out by autonomously operating in four different levels: i) performing robot navigation with quality performance guarantee in order to inspect the crops and collect data from the agricultural area through embedded sensorial system; ii) performing bi-manual harvesting operations with the needed finesse using a modular robotic platform, iii) employing additive manufacturing for adjusting the robot gripper to the geometry of the different crops, iii) presenting advanced cognitive capabilities and decision making skills. The envisioned system will be demonstrated and evaluated in the challenging vineyard environment inspecting different types of vines and harvesting bunches of grapes of different varieties in a human-like manner.
Project page (under construction)
MEDIFIT / PRIMA Section 1 2019 AGRO FOOD VALUE CHAIN
An interlinked digital platform for Food Integrity and Traceability of relevant MEDIterranean supply chains
MEDIFIT // An interlinked digital platform for Food Integrity and Traceability of relevant MEDIterranean supply chains
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Project page (under construction)
TruStFoodS / HFRI GSRT
Development of an Innovative Traceability System for Controlling Food Safety in Sustainable AgriFood Supply Chains
TruStFoodS // Development of an Innovative Traceability System for Controlling Food Safety in Sustainable AgriFood Supply Chains
Duration: Sep 2018 – Sep 2021
The main goal of the current project is to develop an innovative suite of Internet of Things (IoT) – enabled sensing technologies data analytics and an original integrated Decision Support System (DSS), investigating all the key stakeholders and to offer a multidimensional impact assessment and financial analysis. TruStFoodS will provide a new level of assurance to the consumer regarding the safet