CERBERUS (HORIZON-RIA. G.A.: 101134878) has fulfilled several achievements over the first 18 months. With a cloud platform that allows the data exchange from 67 traps in the first year, and 99 traps the second year -half of them automated with direct counting sent to the platform at a daily basis-, growers and consortium researchers have been able to track pests in an innovative way. The platform automatically plots smart-conventional trap catches in real time and anticipates generation peaks by plotting thermal integrals. From a remote sensing perpective, the breakthrough of the platform is the automatically tayloring of relevant Copernicus-based indices and bands to the pilot plots and their crops. In particular, promising results to disentangle biotic and abiotic stress are being obtained for Flavescence doree in grapes (both red and white) and with Xyllela fastidiosa in olives. Spraying and physiological stages of the crops are periodically reported to the platform by field managers, providing excellent means of ground-truth evaluation of crop development and biological efficiency of tratments. With the deployment of smart sprayers in the fall of 2025, pilots will be able to reduce pesticide use and demonstrate savings by the real time monitoring system onboard. Robots will follow in field deployment at the end of 2025, with 10 monitoring bands and up to 14 proximal sensing indices. Finally, citizen science has expanded large-scale monitoring in Cerberus by establishing three groups of citizens in three countries, one per crop (olives in Spain tracking Bactrocera oleae, vineyards in Italy monitoring Lobesia botrana, and citrus in Cyprus focused on Ceratitis capitata). These citizens committed to upload catches into the cloud platform such that project entomologists could validate their catches. The project has engaged stakeholders and citizens in 7 in-person encounters, is being followed in several social networks, and has interacted with other EU-funded projects such as FORSAID, STELLA and BIOVEXO.
