Project description
Monitoring soil moisture with an AI/IoT-supported app usable on farm machinery
Water sets the Earth apart from the other planets in the solar system, enabling our blue planet to house incredible biodiversity and support the agricultural crops that feed humanity. Monitoring soil moisture is essential to efficient irrigation, which saves water and money while boosting crop productivity. The Italian SME FINAPP has developed a cosmic ray neutron sensing (CRNS) probe for environmental monitoring that is able to estimate the water present in soil and snow. The EIC-funded finapp cosmic ray neutron sensing project aims to optimise the CRNS probe and its associated app, enhancing its precision, reliability, and speed of analysis while making it easily usable on agricultural machinery.
Objective
The water present in the soil, in the biomass and in the snow represents extremely sensitive data for various sectors. Monitoring soil moisture is crucial in agriculture to irrigate efficiently, save water and costs, and obtain a healthier and more abundant harvest. The snow water equivalent (water content in the snow pack) is a crucial parameter for water availability forecasting for spring/summer. Finapps Cosmic Ray Neutron Sensing (CRNS) probes are novel, next-generation, water-content estimators with a broad range of applications. They detect the neutrons generated from the interaction of cosmic rays with the Earth atmosphere and water surfaces, and from those measurements, they estimate the water content. All probes are connected to an AI-based, IoT cloud that provides the data in real-time via a user interface, and estimates specific factors for each of the applications in the different industries (e.g. plants/crops health, fire risk).
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- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
- agricultural sciences agricultural biotechnology biomass
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HORIZON.3.1 - The European Innovation Council (EIC)
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35036 MONTEGROTTO TERME
Italy
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