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Agro-MONItorization system for extensive herbaceous crops in CÁdiz based on remote sensing, IoT and artificial intelligence (MoniCa).

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Ongoing | 2021 - 2023 Spain
Ongoing | 2021 - 2023 Spain

Objectives

The project has two general objectives:
1. To develop a Regional Crop Development Service of Cadiz (SRD) oriented to provide Asaja-Cadiz with an agricultural monitoring system for extensive herbaceous crops, where they can see the status at each moment of time of each plot within the crop cycle, in relation to previous campaigns;
2. Develop a Local service for Crop Management at the SIGPAC (SLM) plot level, aimed at the farmer and publishing cartographic products with information on biophysical parameters of the crop at a spatial resolution of 10 m for all extensive herbaceous crops in the province of Cadiz.
 

Activities

The agro-monitoring system based on IoT technologies (internet of things), AI (artificial intelligence), BigData and Geospatial Analysis, will integrate data from Earth Observation programs (satellite images) of different resolutions (10, 20 and 250 m) every 5 days and daily in situ data from intelligent sensors, in a Unified Platform that will provide two monitoring services (downstream service), aimed at Asaja-Cádiz (SRD) and the individual farmer as end users (SLM).

Project details
Main funding source
Rural development 2014-2020 for Operational Groups
Rural Development Programme
2014ES06RDRP001 Spain - Rural Development Programme (Regional) - Andalucía
Emplacement
Main geographical location
Cádiz

EUR 248634.29

Total budget

Total contributions from EAFRD, national co-financing, additional national financing and other financing.

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1 Practice Abstracts

The MoniCa project will contribute to meeting the challenge of sustainable agriculture through the development of operational services capable of monitoring the status of all extensive herbaceous crops in the province, facilitating their management to the farmer.

These crop monitoring and automation systems have a direct impact on the productivity or sustainability of end users, improving crop production and quality, allowing for efficient management of natural resources. An additional advantage of monitoring systems is that they reduce the use of environmentally polluting products, such as fertilizers and phytosanitary products.

rom the economic point of view the project aims to contribute to:

● The reduction of sampling costs by around 20%.

● The modernization and more efficient use of resources by saving up to 20% in the use of available treatments, reducing their impact on the soil and the environment.

● Saving 15% in the cost of fertilizer application, evaluating different types of selective fertilization.

Reducing the gap between potential and actual production, improving the economic benefit and reducing the environmental impact of excessive use of water and fertilizers would be the expected impacts of the project on extensive arable crops in Cadiz. The project's achievements will have a multiplier effect on the entire agricultural and environmental sector.

 

Contacts

Project coordinator

  • Víctor Rodríguez Galiano

    Project coordinator

    vrodriguez8@us.es 0034636501129 C/Doña María de Padilla, s/n Research institute

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