Description du projet
Cultiver des solutions pour relever les défis de la santé des sols
Les exploitations agricoles sont à la pointe de l’économie des données, propulsée par la numérisation, la robotique et les algorithmes intelligents. Toutefois, ces progrès exacerbent les pressions sociétales sur la santé des sols, qui exigent une eau plus propre, des sols plus sains, un stockage accru du carbone et une plus grande biodiversité. Les solutions actuelles sont coûteuses et inadaptées aux besoins des agriculteurs. C’est dans cette optique que le projet SQAT, financé par l’UE, développera un service de cartographie intelligente des sols. En combinant des approches multi-niveaux et multi-technologies, SQAT offre des cartes de propriétés des sols à haute résolution et des solutions sur mesure pour les agriculteurs. Grâce à des capteurs autonomes montés sur des robots et à des outils d’analyse in situ innovants, le système SQAT améliore la productivité tout en réduisant les coûts. En collaboration avec des PME, SQAT vise à commercialiser ses solutions et à offrir aux agriculteurs des applications à taux variable pour le chaulage, la fertilisation, l’ensemencement, le travail du sol et la culture du carbone.
Objectif
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.
Champ scientifique
- 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 ActionsCoordinateur
21000 Novi Sad
Serbie