Optimised Pest Integrated Management to precisely detect and control plant diseases in perennial crops and open-field vegetables

Deliverables

Documents, reports (13)

Report on optimal spray configuration and parameters for the different crop-disease-PPP combinations

This report will describe the experimental work and the results obtained to identify the optimal spray configuration and parameters for the cropdiseasePPP combinations under study and if applicable the adaptations to the smart sprayers needed to apply the selected bioPPPs An updated version of D41 will include results of the vineyard sprayer viability tests for the selected PPPs and will be delivered on month 31

Report on the evaluation of the standalone early detection system and the DSS

This report will include the methodology the trials design and implementation and the results of the evaluation of the standalone early detection system in combination with the DSS

Report on Communication and Dissemination activities

Reports describing all communication and dissemination activities and including all relevant material will be produced with special focus on the main events organized or attended by the projectThere will be two additional updates on M26 and M46

Communication and Dissemination Strategy and Action Plan

Outlining the major axes of the communication and dissemination strategy. Definition of targets, messages, tools and activities and timing.

OPTIMA brochure and leaflet

Attractive and easily digestible publications describing the benefits of the solution and the value proposition to the target marketThere will be one additional update on M18

OPTIMA newsletter

Online publication presenting the activities and promoting the key features of OPTIMA providing information on relevant activities in Innovation in Crop protection fieldA newsletter update will be delivered at the end of the project M46

First batch of practice abstracts for end-users

"The resulting innovative knowledge and easy accessible end-user material from this project will feed into the EIP-AGRI (The agricultural European Innovation Partnership) website for broad dissemination. The end-user material to be produced contains a substantial number of summaries for practitioners in the EIP common format (""practice abstracts""), including the characteristics of the project (e.g. contact details of partners, etc). A full package of practice abstracts will be produced by the project, containing all the outcomes/recommendations which are ready for practice. A ""practice abstract"" is a short summary of around 1000-1500 characters (word count – no spaces; see below) which describes the main information/recommendation/practice that can serve the end-users in their daily practice. Guidance and templates for these practice abstracts are available on the EIP-AGRI web site: http://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/en/content/eip-agri-common-format. A total target number of 30 practice abstracts is foreseen for the project. 10 are expected to be delivered in the first batch. "

Report on drift reduction technologies for the different crop-disease-PPP combinations

This report will contain the methodology, the experimental procedure and the results of the assessment of different innovative technologies for spray drift control together with a selection of technologies that will be integrated in the three smart sprayers.

Report on the Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis integrating Risk and Life-Cycle Assessment

This report will present the methodological structure of this analysis and the results regarding the tradeoffs between health environmental and socioeconomic dimensions as a comparison between the conventional and the proposed system

Second batch of practice abstract for end-users

The resulting innovative knowledge and easy accessible enduser material from this project will feed into the EIPAGRI The agricultural European Innovation Partnership website for broad dissemination The enduser material to be produced contains a substantial number of summaries for practitioners in the EIP common format practice abstracts including the characteristics of the project eg contact details of partners etc A full package of practice abstracts will be produced by the project containing all the outcomesrecommendations which are ready for practiceA practice abstract is a short summary of around 10001500 characters word count no spaces see below which describes the main informationrecommendationpractice that can serve the endusers in their daily practice Guidance and templates for these practice abstracts are available on the EIPAGRI web site httpeceuropaeueipagricultureencontenteipagricommonformat A total target number of 30 practice abstracts is foreseen for the project

Report on results of the co-creation groups

This report will include the analysis of the answers of the cocreation groups in the 3 pilot regions

Report on user requirements for the OPTIMA IPM system

This report will include the analysis of the answers in the survey and the focus groups of the end-users in the 3 pilot countries.

Report on the evaluation and quantification of drift reduction and improved coverage obtained with the smart sprayers

This report will present all the results of the trials of the 3 new smart sprayers regarding the improvements that provide to spraying process in terms of deposition coverage and drift reduction

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data Management Plan & Support Pack

This will be a report to specify how data will be collected, processed, monitored, classified, and disseminated during the project’s lifetime. It will also include a Support Pack with guidelines during their research activities, which software tools and services should be used, and how they can align the project requirements with their institutions’ standard practices and systems. There will be two updated versions of the plan on M20 and M40.

Publications

Conference proceedings (14)

OPTIMA - Optimised Pest Integrated Management to Precisely Detect and Control Plant Diseases in Perennial Crops and Open-field Vegetables

Author(s): Balafoutis A, Moraitis M, Mylonas N, Fountas S, Tsitsigiannis D, Balsari P, Pugliese M, Gil E, Nuyttens D, Polder G, Freire F, Sousa J P, Briard M, Clerc V L, Douzals J P, Caffini A, Berger L, Tsiropoulos Z, Eberle D, Warneys R, Roth M
Published in: Conference on Agricultural Engineering AgEng2021, 2021, Page(s) 441-449, ISBN 978-972-778-214-7
Publisher: Universidade de Évora

Early Disease Detection in Apple and Grape Using Deep Learning on a Smart-Camera

Author(s): Polder G, Blok P, Daalen T, Peller J, Mylonas N
Published in: Conference on Agricultural Engineering AgEng2021, 2021, Page(s) 51-56, ISBN 978-972-778-214-7
Publisher: Universidade de Évora

OPTIMA EU project: main goal and first results of inventory of current spray practices in vineyards and orchards

Author(s): Marucco, Paolo; Balsari, Paolo; Grella, Marco; Pugliese, Massimo; Daniele, Eberle; Emilio Gil Moya,; Jordi Llop Casamada,; Spyros, Fountas; Nikos, Mylonas; Dimitris, Tsitsigiannis; Athanasios, Balafoutis; Gerrit, Polder; David, Nuyttens; Luis, Dias; Jean-Paul, Douzals
Published in: 2019
Publisher: NIAB EMR
DOI: 10.18174/494871

Optimizing IPM - Attractive challenges of H2020 EU project OPTIMA

Author(s): Ortega Rioja, Paula; Gil Moya, Emilio
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Advances in Biological Control and IPM

OPTIMA -OPTimised Integrated Pest MAnagement for precise detection and control of plant diseases in perennial crops and open-field vegetables,

Author(s): Athanasios Balafoutis, Nikos Mylonas, Spyros Fountas, Dimitris Tsitsigiannis, Paolo Balsari, Massimo Pugliese, Emilio Gil, David Nuyttens, Gerrit Polder, Fausto Freire, Jose Paulo Sousa, Mathilde Briande, Valerie Le Clerc, Jean-Paul Dou-zals, Amedeo Caffini, Lars Berger, Zisis Tsiropoulos, Dan-iele Eberle, Sarah Bellalou, Andreas Thierfelder
Published in: 2019
Publisher: 12th EFITA International Conference

OPTIMA H2020 and LIFE-PERFECT projects: development and application of new techniques for sustainable PPP spray application

Author(s): P. MARUCCO, M. GRELLA, F. GIOELLI & P. BALSARI.
Published in: 2019
Publisher: Biosystem Engineering for sustainable agriculture, forestry and food production

Development of a methodology to select the optimal application technologies in apple crop – EU project OPTIMA-H2020

Author(s): Gil E, Ortega P, Salas B, Andreu F, Berger L T, Fountas S, Nuyttens D. 2020
Published in: Aspects of Applied Biology, 144, 2020, Page(s) 67-75
Publisher: ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED BIOLOGISTS

OPTIMA Project: development of a smart sprayer for vineyards.

Author(s): Marucco P, Balsari P, Caffini A, Fountas S, Gioelli F, Grella M, Mylonas N, Nuyttens D, Zwertvaegher I. 2020. OPTIMA Project: development of a smart sprayer for vineyards. Aspects of Applied Biology. 144: 77-83.
Published in: Aspects of Applied Biology, 144, 2020, Page(s) 77-83
Publisher: ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED BIOLOGISTS

OPTIMA project: development of a smart sprayer for bed-grown carrots

Author(s): Zwertvaegher I, Fountas S, Mylonas N, Douzals J-P, Balsari P, Marucco P, Caffini A, Nuyttens D.
Published in: Aspects of Applied Biology, 144, 2020, Page(s) 85-92
Publisher: ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED BIOLOGISTS

H2020 – OPTIMA – Optimised Pest Integrated Management to precisely detect and control plant diseases in perennial crops and open-field vegetables

Author(s): Ortega P, Salas B, Balsari P, Polder G, Fountas S, Nuyttens D, Jesus J, Balafoutis T, Gil E.
Published in: Aspects of Applied Biology, 144, 2020, Page(s) 221-227
Publisher: ASSOCIATION OF APPLIED BIOLOGISTS

An innovative sprayer design methodology for optimal plant protection of bed-grown carrots

Author(s): Jean-Paul Douzals, Aude Lamare, Ingrid Zwertvaegher, David Nuyttens, Paolo Balsari, Paolo Marucco, Marco Grella, Amedeo Caffini, Nikos Mylonas, Spyros Fountas
Published in: Proceedings of the 4th SIMA AgriTech Day, 2021, Page(s) 245-259, ISBN 978-2-491070-02-1
Publisher: AXEMA

OPTIMA – PROGRESS IN OPTIMISED PEST INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT TO PRECISELY DETECT AND CONTROL PLANT DISEASES IN PERENNIAL CROPS AND OPEN-FIELD VEGETABLES

Author(s): Balafoutis A, Moraitis M, Mylonas N, Fountas S, Stamatelopoulos P, Tsiropoulos Z.
Published in: 12th Panhellenic Conference on Agricultural Machinery, 2021
Publisher: EGME HelAgEng

Detecting Spectral Signals in Imaging for Disease Detection in Apple and Grape

Author(s): Peller J, Polder G, Blok M P, Malounas I
Published in: Conference on Agricultural Engineering AgEng2021, 2021, Page(s) 63-69, ISBN 978-972-778-214-7
Publisher: Universidade de Évora

Life cycle assessment of grape cultivation in Piedmont, Italy

Author(s): Marques, Pedro Garcia, Rita Jesus, João Eberle, Daniele Freire, Fausto
Published in: 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food 2020 (LCA Food 2020), 13-16 October 2020, Berlin, Germany – Virtual Format, 2020, ISBN 978-3-00-067604-8
Publisher: 12th International Conference on Life Cycle Assessment of Food 2020 (LCA Food 2020)

Peer reviewed articles (2)

Should oral exposure in Hypoaspis aculeifer tests be considered in order to keep them in Tier I test battery for ecological risk assessment of PPPs?

Author(s): Tiago Natal-da-Luz, Tom Gevaert, Carla Pereira, Daniela Alves, Maria Arena, José Paulo Sousa
Published in: Environmental Pollution, 244, 2019, Page(s) 871-876, ISSN 0269-7491
Publisher: Pergamon Press Ltd.
DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2018.10.113

Field assessment of a pulse width modulation (PWM) spray system applying different spray volumes: duty cycle and forward speed effects on vines spray coverage

Author(s): Marco Grella; Fabrizio Stefano Gioelli; Paolo Marucco; Ingrid Zwertvaegher; Eric Mozzanini; Nikolaos Mylonas; David Nuyttens; Paolo Balsari
Published in: Precision Agriculture, 15731618, 2021, ISSN 1573-1618
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s11119-021-09835-6