ScaleAgData    

Project Information

ScaleAgData

Grant agreement ID: 101086355

DOI

10.3030/101086355

EC signature date 8 November 2022

Start date 1 January 2023

End date 31 December 2026

Funded under

• Food, Bioeconomy Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment

Total cost

€ 7 496 557,75

EU contribution

€ 7 496 557,75

Coordinated by

VLAAMSE INSTELLING VOOR TECHNOLOGISCH ONDERZOEK N.V.
Belgium

Periodic Reporting for period 2 - ScaleAgData (ScaleAgData    )

Reporting period: 2024-07-01 to 2025-12-31

Summary of the context and overall objectives of the project

The EU's Green Deal targets emphasize data-driven decision-making in agriculture to promote competitiveness and sustainability, yet a significant gap exists in detailed information at scale. Agricultural sensors, which capture vital information about crop and environmental conditions, are an underutilized resource. By integrating these sensor data with other sources like satellite data, regional agri-environmental monitoring capabilities can be enhanced, requiring a shift in monitoring systems and data governance.
ScaleAgData aims to explore how data streams should be governed to benefit all stakeholders, especially farmers, and how these data can be integrated into regional monitoring datasets. Innovations in sensor technology, edge computing, data analytics, and new EO-based products will be co-designed and tested in six Research and Innovation Labs (RI labs) across Europe. Each RI lab focuses on a specific theme: Water Productivity, Crop Management, Yield Monitoring, Soil Health, Grasslands, and Dairy. This thematic diversity enables the collection of sensor data across a broad range of environmental conditions, covering soil, water, air, and living organisms. Improved data products will be available for evaluation and co-design processes, considering both widely monitored crops like wheat and lesser-monitored ones like medicinal plants and quinoa. These RI labs will evaluate the usability and regional transferability of the innovations.

Work performed from the beginning of the project to the end of the period covered by the report and main results achieved so far

5 Milestones have been completed so far, marking the End of 2nd Iteration of the Co-design Phase, Development and Technology Validation Phase . Main achievements up to M36 are listed below:

1) Project management, GDPR, Gender balance, Legal and Ethical issues management plan was finalized.
2) Open Science and Data Management Plan v1 was finalized.
3) Vision scenarios, Requirements and Innovative Governance Models v1 was finalized for the vertical domains of the RI labs in the first iteration.
4) ScaleAgData generic architecture and data governance, sharing meta architecture and integration of the RI Labs v1 was finalized.
5) Sensor and edge processing selection, development, spatial planning and data collection v1 was finalized.
6) Analysis-ready EO data made available to the RI labs and RI environment.
7) The Research and Innovation environment is operational for use by the consortium members.
8) Data-based farming services v1 was finalized.
9) Sensor-integrated data products v1 was completed.
10) Piloting Plan & Evaluation Methodology v1 was completed.
11) A Dissemination, Exploitation and Communication Plan and Package, including website have been developed.
12) A Dissemination, exploitation and capacity building report, v1 was finalized.
13) Deployment and evaluation results of 1st iteration available through the Deployment and Evaluation Report v1
14) Piloting Plan and Evaluation Methodology for the 2nd iteration reviewed and updated
15) Open Science and Data management plan updated
16) Vision scenarios, requirements, governance models and validation framework reviewed and updated for 2nd iteration
17) Generic and RI Lab architecture reviewed
18) Sensor and edge processing methods reviewed and updated as well as spatial planning and data collection
19) Sensor-integrated data products updated for 2nd iteration
20) Data based farming services and sensor-integrated data products of 2nd iteration available.
21) Dissemination, engagement and capacity building plan updated with some results disseminated and capacity building activities organized

Progress beyond the state of the art and expected potential impact (including the socio-economic impact and the wider societal implications of the project so far)

The project still has a year to go and hence results of the project are not complete yet. An overview of results so far include:

* an agri-environmental dashboard for policy makers (Service)
* a Pesticide sensor (Product)
* Yarasense version 1 (Product)
* a Sensor spatial planning methodology for optimizing locations of installations of in-situ sensors (Method)
* IoT soil moisture solution for collection in-situ measurements from fields (Product)
* Upgrade version Fabry Perot interferometer camera (Product)
* VTT HIS camera (Product)
* First prototype ScaleAgData architecture (Design)
* Research and Innovation Environment for ScaleAgData (Service)

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