Descripción del proyecto
Cultivo de soluciones para los retos de la salud del suelo
Las explotaciones agrícolas están a la vanguardia de la economía de los datos, impulsadas por la digitalización, la robótica y los algoritmos inteligentes. Sin embargo, estos avances agravan las presiones de la sociedad sobre la salud del suelo, que demanda agua más limpia, suelos más sanos, mayor almacenamiento de carbono y biodiversidad. Las soluciones actuales son costosas e inadecuadas para los agricultores. En este sentido, el equipo del proyecto SQAT, financiado con fondos europeos, desarrollará un servicio inteligente de cartografía del suelo. Combinando enfoques multinivel y multitecnología, en SQAT se ofrecen mapas de alta resolución de las propiedades del suelo y soluciones a medida para los agricultores. Mediante sensores autónomos montados en robots e innovadoras herramientas de análisis «in situ», el sistema de SQAT mejora la productividad al tiempo que reduce los costes. En colaboración con las pymes, el equipo de SQAT se propone comercializar sus soluciones y ofrecer a los agricultores aplicaciones variables para el encalado, la fertilización, la siembra, la labranza y la agricultura del carbono.
Objetivo
Digitalisation, robotics, and smart algorithms have brought the data economy to the farm. However, farms face large societal pressures related to soil: cleaner water, healthier soils, improved carbon storage and increase in biodiversity. A better understanding of the variability of soil properties and quality is needed, with current market solutions being too expensive and not well suited to farmer needs.
SQAT's smart soil mapping service is a multi-level, multi-technology and multi-purpose solution. With a keen eye on markets and users, SQAT’s approach is designed to overcome today’s practical, technical and financial challenges to generate high resolution soil properties maps – and demand-driven products like application maps for soil improvement or crop management, or compliancy proof for eco schemes. Our vision is that the integration of different technologies provides a flexible and agile service beating the unbundled alternatives that are now in the market: our in-situ sampling and/or sensoring is wrapped in a Copernicus-based artificial intelligence soil mapping product.
In the field, our autonomous robot-mounted sensor toolbox includes VIS-NIR sensors, automated sampler drill and penetrometer, and a novel chamber for in situ wet chemical soil analysis (Lab in the Field). Overall, the system increases the productivity and reduces laboratory/labour costs compared to current approaches. Using resulting maps, SQAT co-develops, tests and validates 5 smart farming applications to deliver value to farmers: Variable rate liming/fertilisation/seeding, Variable depth tillage, & Carbon farming MRV.
We include 7 SMEs from across the SQAT data value chain to lead co-development in 7 use cases across Europe. The results will be commercialised by project end courtesy of a pro-active market focus, that aims to engage and onboard users in the use case locations, as well as other agri-service providers to develop their own SQAT-enabled smart farming applicatications.
Ámbito científico
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- social scienceseconomics and businesseconomicsproduction economicsproductivity
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringsensors
- natural sciencesbiological sciencesecologyecosystems
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringrobotics
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HORIZON-IA - HORIZON Innovation ActionsCoordinador
21000 Novi Sad
Serbia