Objective
SABRES will take well established methods of satellite remote sensing, apply them to data from new Very High Resolution (VHR) satellite sensors and integrate specially designed image products into innovative, prototype farm management information systems (FMIS) developed from existing software products. In addition, an advanced component of the project will deliver higher level products to the FMIS (e.g. fertiliser and fungicide recommendation maps) by application of existing techniques to a time series of satellite images (obtained whilst the crop is growing) and in combination with ground data from conventional sources.
Different prototypes of the on-farm software will be developed which are suited to the differing business needs of five customers in four EU member states.
Agricultural practices within all four member states are characterised by high-input arable farming.
The five customers represent a wide range of businesses within the agri-business sector: a community service to farmers, a large group of independent advisors, a progressive farmer and two farming co-operatives in two of the largest arable states in the EU. The customers will evaluate the products and software over a cycle of two growing seasons on farms to which they have excellent access.
As timeliness of information is extremely important for current year (tactical) treatments, an image distribution mechanism developed for use in the second growing season will exploit the CEO Enabling Services (ES), especially the Search Services and the Advertising and Announcement Services. The aim of the CEO is to attract new customers to using EO data, information and services as well as to improve interaction and communication between customers and service providers. Through SABRES, the CEO/ES will fulfil its purpose for the agri-business sector.
To complement the CEO infra-structure a distribution mechanism will be developed so that agri-business subscribers to the SABRES Advertisement within CEO/ES can receive pre-processed images and advanced products automatically from their EO/GIS service provider. A further objective of the project is therefore to implement prototype software and metadata structures so that project customers can subscribe to SABREC with details of the farm extent and services required. The customers will ther receive high level image products for their farm(s) automatically over the Internet as soon as they are available. Practical evaluations with the customers will ensure seamless integration of downloaded products into the on-farm FMIS.
Feedback from the second growing season and the experience gained over the whole project will be synthesised (technically, commercially, scientifically) to produce an exploitation plan as the final output of the project. The partners will then be in a position to justify the necessary further private investment required to operationalise the prototype FMIS and associated services prior to launching them commercially in their respective countries.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences computer and information sciences software
- engineering and technology mechanical engineering vehicle engineering aerospace engineering satellite technology
- engineering and technology environmental engineering remote sensing
- engineering and technology electrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineering electronic engineering sensors
- agricultural sciences agriculture, forestry, and fisheries agriculture
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GU34 5PZ Alton
United Kingdom
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