DATI PRIMA MIUR (DBA.AD001.472)

Thematic area

Biology, agriculture and food sciences

Project area

Structure responsible for the research project

Institute of BioEconomy (IBE)

Project manager

ALESSANDRO MATESE
Phone number: 0553033711
Email: alessandro.matese@cnr.it

Abstract

Water is becoming the most limiting factor for crop production. Irrigated agriculture is one of the major water-consuming sectors and provides challenges for substantial water savings. Precise irrigation tools based on cost-effective technologies aiming to encourage large diffusion and opportunities in developing countries are needed. This proposal aims to design and develop new low cost sensors and technologies for soil and crop monitoring, finalized at the optimization of irrigation management by improving farm-scale irrigation equipment and water release scheduling for crop needs. The project will take advantage of new Digital Agriculture (DA) low cost technologies such as Wireless Sensors Networks (WSN) for agrometeorological monitoring, Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV) equipped with imaging cameras, free satellite imagery, open source GIS, DSS and web interfaces coupled with data-driven soil and plants models. The output of the project will be a system based on sensing, DSS and irrigation technologies applicable as standalone solution, characterized by high flexibility for different cases in term of farming systems, environments, degree of mechanization, management and ICT impl

Goals

The systems will be implemented in DEMO FARMS pilots located in four representative Mediterranean countries, such as Italy, Portugal, Spain and Morocco. Each case study will develop different low cost Tech Solution (TS), characterized by using a low cost technology, a data-driven model based on machine learning algorithms and a micro-irrigation system and will be tested and validate on a specific crop. Two different crops, tomato as annual and grapevine for perennial will be chosen. Technological components will be low cost, flexible and adaptable in order to be replicable to different locations, crops and farming system. More specifically, each TS will be developed as a lean package and should help Mediterranean farmers to increase yield and crop quality, through optimization of water use efficiency in a low cost approach

Start date of activity

01/06/2021

Keywords

TELERILEVAMENTO, UAV, AGRICOLTURA DI PRECISIONE

Last update: 19/04/2024