Nostradamus, in line with the Farm to Fork strategy, the Common Agricultural Policy, and the European strategy for data, aims to design, develop, and evaluate a scalable and robust platform for the online and real-time harvesting of valuable information derived from different data sources for developing several agricultural applications. Based on European and four national multidimensional datasets, an automated pipeline regarding the data acquisition, storage, and pre-processing, the developed platform will handle several open and commercial satellite datasets while employing in (near) real-time several server-side algorithms for time-series analysis and value added geospatial maps. To enhance sustainability performance and competitiveness of the agricultural sector through a multi actor approach, Nostradamus will develop a number of open-source-based digital applications for farmers considering both edge and cloud solutions, as well as a combination of the two, taking into account the potential of advanced Internet of Things solutions and Earth Observation data. Leveraging data from various sources that enable real-time data collection and analysis, farmers will be provided with actionable insights to optimize their operations and improve their yields, reducing agricultural inputs' utilization, which will boost EU resilience, independence, and ecological ambitions for agriculture. Nostradamus adopts a multi-actor approach across the entire period of the project that will continuously engage a variety of stakeholders, such as farmers, farm advisors, IT experts, and scientists, to reflect the knowledge, gaps, and needs of different groups properly and maximize the potential of deployment of the developed digital solutions and applications.
Nostradamus’ main objective is two-fold: (1) to operate as a centralized data “SILO” to guard EU Food Security and ensure EU independence in agricultural inputs. This centralised-data-based silo, Data Cube Ecosystem (consisting by 5 data cubes), will serve as the backbone of online and real-time harvesting of valuable information from multiple data sources to provide key actors with an aggregated, well-structured and easily accessible data silo; (2) to develop multi-functional open-source digital applications to transform the EU agricultural sector into a modern, highly efficient, inclusive, resilient, and competitive sector. Towards this direction and in alignment with the partnership “Agriculture of Data (AgData)”, scalable and robust digital solutions for providing access to real-time analysis of aggregated data for digital applications will be developed. These will substantially improve (efficiency and effectiveness): the farm technology and economy, the adaptation to new EU policy, and the overall system of policy creation and evaluation in agriculture and rural development.
