foodie newsletter issue #7
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Issue 7 (June 2016)
FOODIE Newsletter
FOODIE Team's corner
Dear Members of FOODIE Community,
FOODIE project has entered in the last year of its schedule. This seventh issue covers the period from March 2016 to
June 2016 and gives evidence of the more mature technical results and progress in pilot sites. In addition, you are
provided with an overview of the upcoming events and a brief summary of the past events where the FOODIE Team
presented the project. We hope you find the information interesting!
ABOUT FOODIE
FOODIE project is a co-funded research project funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) by
European Commission. FOODIE project aims at building an open and interoperable agricultural specialized platform
hub on the cloud for the management of spatial and non-spatial agriculture related data from heterogeneous sources.
FOODIE platform represents a new innovative solution for different user needs; FOODIE can provide a marketplace
where data can be discovered and exchanged but also external companies can publish their own agricultural
applications based on the data, services and applications.
The objectives and achievements of the project have been demonstrated in three different pilot scenarios across
Europe:
Pilot 1: Precision Viticulture (Spain).
Pilot 2: Open Data for Strategic and Tactical planning (Czech Republic).
Pilot 3: Technology allows integration of logistics via service providers and farm management including traceability
(Germany).
PILOT EXECUTION PROGRESS
Spanish Pilot
The Spanish Pilot continues its development regarding the use of precision viticulture with the aid of the Information
and communications technologies.
The deployment of all agro-meteorological stations and their integration in the FOODIE platform is providing near-real
time data about the agro-climatic conditions. It allows Terras Gauda taking full advantage of the dashboard developed
in FOODIE for planning agricultural interventions based on the conditions of the vineyard. In addition, the dashboard
provides indicators for health and hydric stress of the grapes which are obtained processing satellite imagery.
It allows taking decisions about site-specific interventions such as fertilization or irrigation. The help of the mobile App
is also remarkable for the work in the vineyard. It is easy to register geo-located annotations and issues and counts
with a notification system for receiving alerts, for instance, regarding outbreaks of grapevine diseases.
On the other hand, the harvesting season will arrive in a few months and early grape yield prediction is crucial. It
allows winegrowers to make decisions concerning logistics and consider alternative grape providers in order to
maintain the expected wine production.
Yield prediction is also valuable as an indicator for the quality of the final product, managed by means of agricultural
practices for controlling the vigor of the vines.
However, the procedure for the estimation of grape
production is often a time-consuming method that requires
counting the number of inflorescences or the number of
bunches per vine and also requires to estimate the average
weight of the bunches.
In this regard, the Spanish pilot is working on the
development of grape yield forecasting models based on
machine learning algorithms, considering soil analysis,
meteorological variables associated to phenological stages,
satellite imagery, crop production and viticultural climatic
indices. The experimental results show interesting
conclusions about which development stages of the vineyard
are more important for yield prediction and which other
variables are relevant for this task.
Czech pilot
The recent development in the Czech pilot involved Telematics of Farm Machinery and estimation of Yield potential
zones. During previous stages the development was focused mainly on analytical functions on the server side.
In the first months of 2016 the first version of user
interface making the functions accessible was introduced
to end-user.
During spring 2016 Wirelessinfo continued with
improvement of the user interface and opening new
features to end-user.
Current development of new analytical features is aiming
to interconnect information from Yield Potential Zones
and Telematics of Farm Machinery.
The Telematics of Farm Machinery is strongly related to input side of farming while the Yield Potential Zones represents
a part of output side. Analysis of this information together is a key step for the evaluation of cost efficiency.
German Pilot
The German pilot is devoted to demonstrate how to upgrade logistics with orthoimages and additionally LPIS (Land
parcel Information System) data. LPIS data is collected from governmental organisations approved and signed by the
farmers as owners of the data. (Ortho-)Images are crucial in rural areas taking into account that road-network does not
exist and rural road in principle represents a working place that can be occupied by other farmers who have the right to
work there. To close this existing gap PROGIS worked out together with Wirelessinfo a new model for it: they
restructured the OSM (Open Street Map) to an OTM (Open Transport Map) that allows routing and PROGIS linked
WinGIS to this map enabling a local responsible organization to digitize the road network and add attributive data like,
width, tons, height etc. that are part of routing. Next step consists in integrating the cadastre data and install it on the
FOODIE server to show that one server could manage all needs.
PROGIS has also linked in tests the farm management-system DokuPlant and will make the embedded expert data set
available on the FOODIE platform. This will allow communication of farmer´s contracts via the FOODIE server directly to
the mobile device on the tractor or other agro machines.
NEW FOODIE USE CASES!
FOODIE project has three pilots being developed and tested in Spain, Germany and Czech Republic, and it also includes
three smaller pilots (or use cases) in other countries: Poland, Turkey, Italy and Latvia.
The aim of the Polish use case is the development and testing of a decision support system for plant diseases. The
development and execution of the Polish use case is driven mainly by WODR, subcontracted by PSNC for FOODIE. The
tests are being conducted in some of the farms that are part of the network of demonstration farms (around 100) built
by WODR in the region. Sielinko is one of these demonstration farms where a fair was held to disseminate, inter alia,
some of FOODIE results (Please click here to learn more!).
The scope of the Turkish use case is to integrate geographical data with pasture/grasslands data collected by
Department of Pasture and Forage. Testing activities comprises analysis of soil quality and ingredients (rehabilitation of
pastures), detection and comparison of pasture boundaries (determination of boundaries) analysis of forage on
pastures (prediction of meat production cost).
The Italian use case is focused on general land description and agricultural datasets for Alpine farms: general planning,
orthophotos, cadaster, general technical maps, protected areas, forest distribution and types, crops, rural roads,
aqueducts, geology, ecosystems, etc. Next steps consist in evaluating GPS sensors traceability on summer high
mountain cows pasture.
The Latvian use case is addressed on precision farming and horticulture. Since the arable farming plays a crucial role in
the national economy, there is a huge potential for extension of PA services, which are now on very low level. The
target is mainly the horticulture (for example cranberries production or vegetation in greenhouses). During the next
period, the use case will focus on agro-meteorological monitoring, farm telemetry and yield potential.
FOODIE OUTREACH
FOODIE at Baltic Open (Geo) Data Hackathon 2016
16 March 2016 – 18 March 2016 Riga, Latvia. The importance of open data and open geodata is increasing. But the
potential of open (geo) data has not been fully exploited. This is true in most parts of Europe including the Baltic
Region. Similar conditions relate also to the software tools helping to
collect, manipulate and publish such data. There is a need to address
these challenges and where possible to improve this situation. For this
reason, the Baltic Open (Geo) Data Hackathon was organised. A
hackathon is very often
understood as some
exercises of programmers
or data specialists. The
Baltic Open Data
Hackathon extended this approach by inviting also end users.
The applicatio Esti atio of Crop Yield Pote tial was selected by
Baltic Open Data Hackathon jury as one of the three winning
applications.
FOODIE at the EGU General Assembly 2016
21 April 2016, Vienna, Austria. The EGU General Assembly 2016 was a great success with 4,863 oral, 10,320 poster,
and 947 PICO presentations. 619 unique scientific sessions together with 321 side events created an interesting
programme. At the conference 13,650 scientists from 109 countries participated, of which 25% were students and
53% early career scientists (under the age of 35 years), 15,000 copies of EGU Today distributed, keen media presence
and reporting, and thousands of visits to the webstreams as well as to the EGU blog GeoLog.
FOODIE project was presented by Tomas Reznik from Wirelessinfo at the Poster section with an oral demonstration.
FOODIE at 'the Future of Farming Smart Agriculture i a co petiti e orld’ 28 April 2016, Brussels, Belgium. The event pointed out the current and future situation of the agricultural sector.
Philip Hogan, the EU Commissioner of Agriculture and Rural Development discussed together with a panel of experts
from NGO, public and private sector about new technologies and methods in agri-food sector to boost productivity
and to increase profit. The focus of the discussion was the need of sharing more data and best practices in order to
develop a new innovative agriculture.
FOODIE at the Joined Capigi-ICT-Agri ERANET workshop
25 May 2016 Rotterdam, Netherlands. The FOODIE representatives demonstrated use cases, Telematics of Farm
Machinery and Estimation of Yield potential zones, where availability of agricultural open data contributes to
evaluation and improvement of cost efficiency of farming.
FOODIE at CAPSELLA Project Workshop
30-31 May 2016 Volterra, Pisa, Italy. It was the optimal floor where farmers,
networks, stakeholders, ICT and data experts could give the voice to their
experience and opinions about data sharing, ICT developments and
management of both organic and conventional agriculture in EU. FOODIE
representatives, by presenting the functionalities of the platform, raised
awareness on the benefits of using ICTs in farm management. The cornerstone
of the discussion was how open spatial and non-spatial data can support
sustainable agro-ecological farming.
FOODIE at the EMPHASIS workshop
1 June 2016, Brussels, Belgium. The workshop was organized by EMPHASIS (H2020-SFS-03a-2014) project. The event
dealt with future investment in agriculture and IPM (Integrated Pest Management) strategies. During the event
roundtables were held to discuss about real-life scenarios related to the adoption of new technologies and optimal
management of resources, FOODIE platform was presented as the platform in EU that will help farmers all over Europe
to share knowledge and open data.
FOODIE at the XXIII Wielkopolska Agricultural Advisory Center (WODR)
regional agricultural fair
4-5 June 2016, Sielinko, Poland. During this regional fair organized by the
Wielkopolska Agricultural Advisory Center (WODR) in Sielinko farm and
exhibition center, PSNC shared a stand with WODR team working on the
decision support system. In the stand PSNC had information about FOODIE
project, and also provided information about FOODIE marketplace, which is
being developed by PSNC. The marketplace aims at providing a virtual space to
connect consumers and producers of agricultural data and applications. As part
of the fair, there were also some other stands showing different technologies,
machinery and materials used in agriculture and livestock.
FOODIE at the AgriFuture Days 2016
22 – 24 June 2016, Villach, Austria. The conference was organised by the
Club of Ossiach. The event dealt with ICT in agriculture. During the event
roundtables were held to discuss about technology integration,
stakeholders cooperation and education. FOODIE was presented by
Wirelessinfo with the topic FOODIE Farm-orie ted ope data i Europe .
UPCOMING EVENTS
FOODIE Team will be presenting the project at the following events:
12-19 July 2016 Prague, Czech Republic, FOODIE at Conference ISPRS 2016
13-15 July 2016 Patras, Greece, FOODIE participation in MEDHACKATHON
31 July 2016 – 3 August 2016 St. Louis, Missouri, USA, FOODIE at the 13th ICPA conference
16 September 2016 Berlin, Germany, FOODIE at ENVIROINFO 2016
26 – 30 September 2016 Barcelona, Spain, FOODIE at INSPIRE Conference
3 - 6 October 2016, Pilsen, Czech Republic, ISAF 2016
PUBLIC DELIVERABLES
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following link: http://www.foodie-project.eu/downloads.php?idc=5
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DEFI
Le secteur agricole est un secteur stratégiquement unique,
qui devrait idéalement être formé par un réseau de parties
intéressées interagissant entre elles.
En réalisant leurs activités, ces parties intéressées doivent
gérer plusieurs sources d’information hétérogènes,
comme:
définition de politiques ;
évaluation de performances environnementales ;
développement de l’agriculture soutenable, collecte de
culture, et définition du timing et de la politique tarifaire ;
détection des épidémies.
Dans ce contexte, la connaissance des systèmes de gestion
de l’agriculture ne devrait pas seulement supporter la
rentabilité directe de l’agriculture ou la protection de
l’environnement, mais elle devrait aussi combiner et
coordonner les efforts et les comportements de l’industrie
agroalimentaire, des consommateurs, des administrations
publics et de la communauté des parties intéressées.
Ce projet a été partiellement soutenu par le Programme d’appui
stratégique en matière de technologies de l’information et de la
communication (TIC), en tant que partie du programme-cadre pour
la compétitivité et l’innovation de la Commission européenne, sous
la convention de subvention n° 621074.
OBJECTIFS ASPECTS INNOVANTS DESCRIPTION DES PILOTES
Le projet FOODIE vise à :
construire une plateforme sur cloud, ouverte et
interopérable, spécialisée dans le secteur agricole, dédiée à
la gestion de données spatiales et de celles qui ne le sont
pas, à partir de sources hétérogènes;
intégrer ensembles ouverts de données européennes,
existantes et de valeur, liés à l’agriculture;
connecter la publication de données aux données
provenant de sources extérieures sur l’agriculture, à travers
d’une interface de programmation applicative (API);
fournir applications et services spécifiques et à forte
rentabilité pour soutenir la planification des procès
décisionnels des différents groups de parties intéressées;
assurer un marché où les données puissent être identifiées
et échangées, et les entreprises extérieures puissent publier
leurs propres application agricoles basées sur les données,
les services et les applications fournis par FOODIE.
Le projet FOODIE présente plusieurs aspects
innovants:
Déploiement en cloud de services basiques et
standardisés, diminuant ainsi non seulement les coûts
de déploiement, mais aussi ceux de production et
d’entretien.
Traçabilité et cumulabilité faciles des services;
Paiement à la consommation (« pay-as-you-go »);
Mécanismes de récompenses pour le partage de
données;
Retour sur investissement (ROI) clair pour l’utilisateur
final;
Interfaces multi-appareils/multiplateformes/ multi-
usages.
Les idées et les objectifs de FOODIE seront réalisés grâce aux
services résultant de la plateforme, qui seront démontrés
dans trois différents pilotes à travers l’Europe, établissant pour
chacun un ensemble de prérequis communs et spécifiques :
Pilote 1: Précision Viticulture (Espagne) focalisée sur la
gestion appropriée de la variabilité intrinsèque des cultures
Pilote 2: Données ouvertes pour la préparation stratégique
et tactique (République Tchèque) se focalisera sur
l’amélioration de la gestion future des sociétés agricoles
(fermes) en introduisant de nouveaux outils et méthodes de
gestion
Pilote 3: Technologie pour l’intégration de la logistique à
travers fournisseurs d’accès internet et gestion des fermes, y
compris la traçabilité (Allemagne). Ce pilote ne se focalisera
pas seulement sur l’intégration des systèmes coopératifs de
machines agricoles avec la gestion des fermes existantes,
mais aussi sur le développement et l’élargissement de la
coopération existante et du modèle d’entreprise avec les
différents partenaires de la chaîne.
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IZAICIN JUMS
Lauksaimniec ba ir stratēģiski unikāla nozare,
kurai ideālā gad jumā būtu jāveidojas no savstarpēji
mijiedarbojošos organizāciju t kla. stenojot savas
aktivitātes, šādiem nozares dal bniekiem jāpārvalda
daudz dažādu un daudzveid gu informācijas avotu, kā
piemēram:
politiku deinēšana,
ekoloģisko rād tāju vērtēšana,
ilgtspēj gas lauksaimniec bas att st ba, ražas datu
uzskaite, laika plānošana un cenu politika,
slim bu un kaitēkļu paredzēšana un kontrole.
Šajā kontekstā nākotnes lauksaimniec bas zināšanu
pārvald bas sistēmām ne tikai jāspēj atbalst t
lauksaimniec bas rentabilitāte vai vides aizsardz ba,
bet ar jāspēj kombinēt un koordinēt ieguld jumus un
mijiedarb bu starp agrorūpniecisko kompleksu, pār-
tikas ražotāju, patērētāju un publiskās pārvaldes un
plašākām lietotāju grupām.
Šis projekts tiek l dzinansēts Eiropas Savien bas ICT Politikas
Atbalsta Programmas (ICT PSP) ietvaros, kā daļa no
Konkurētspējas un inovāciju ietvarprogrammas granta l guma
Nr.621074
M R I INOVAT VIE ASPEKTI PILOTPROJEKTU APRAKSTS
FOODIE projekta uzst d tie m r i:
• izveidot atvērtu un sadarbspēj gu specializētu platformas centrmezglu lauksaimniec bai, kas būtu bāzēts uz mākoņskaitļošanas principiem un domāts neviendab gu telpisko un netelpisko ar lauksaimniec bu saist to datu pārvald bai;
• integrēt esošās vērt gās atvērto datu kopas Eiropā, kas saist tas ar lauksaimniec bu;
• sasaist t datu publicēšanu ar ārējiem lauksaim-
niec bas datu avotiem, izmantojot speciisku Aplikāciju programmēšanas interfeisu (Application Programming Interface – API);
• nodrošināt speciiskas augstvērt gas lietotājprogram-mas un pakalpojumus, lai atbalst tu lēmumu pieņemšanas procesus plānošanā dažādu ieinteresēto lietotājgrupu starpā;
• nodrošināt apmaiņas vietu, kur dati var tikt glabāti, atklāti, piedāvāti un main ti, kur ārējās organizācijas var publicēt viņu pašu lauksaimniec bas lietotājpro-grammas, kas būtu balst tas uz datiem, pakalpojumiem un aplikācijām, kas izstrādātas FOODIE projektā.
FOODIE projekts pied v vair kus inovat vus aspektus:
• standartizētu pakalpojumu un risinājumu izvie-
tošanu datu mākon , samazinot ne tikai izvietoša-nas izmaksas, bet ar sagatavošanas un uzturēšanas izmaksas;
• vieglu atpaz stam bu un savietojam bu mākoņskaitošanas pakalpojumiem;
• “maksā pēc patērētā” paradigmu;
• atl dz bas mehānismu par dal šanos ar datiem;
• skaidru invest ciju atdevi (Clear Return of Invest-ment – ROI) gala lietotājiem;
• daudzveid gu ier ču/daudzplatformu/daudzfunkciju lietotāja saskarnes risinājumu.
FOODIE koncepts un mērķi tiks stenoti ar pakalpojumu platformas centrmezgla l dzekļiem, kas tiks demonstrēti trijos dažādos pilotscenārijos dažādās Eiropas vietās, tādā veidā nodrošinot katrā no tiem kop gu un speciisku
pras bu komplektu:
1.pilotprojekts: Prec zā V nkop ba (Spānija) fokusē-
sies uz piemērotu pārvald bas sistēmu main gu ražu ap-
stākļos;
2.pilotprojekts: Atvērtie dati stratēģiskai un taktiskai
plānošanai (Čehija) – pilotprojekta fokuss būs uz lauku
saimniec bu (fermu) nākotnes pārvald bas modeļu ie-
viešanu, izmantojot jaunus r kus un menedžmenta me-
todes;
3.pilotprojekts: Tehnoloģiski nodrošināta loģistikas
risinājumu integrācija ar pakalpojumu piegādātājiem un
lauku saimniec bu pārvald bas izsekojam ba (Vācija).
Šis pilotprojekts koncentrēsies uz vācu lauksaimniec bas
maš nu kooperācijas sistēmu integrēšanu esošajā fer-
mu pārvald bas un loģistikas sistēmā, kā ar att st s
un paplašinās esošos kooperācijas un biznesa mo-
deļus ar dažādu ražošanas ķēdes partneru iesaisti.