Activities

Building open and interoperable agricultural specialized platform hub on the cloud for the management of spatial and non-spatial data from heterogeneous sources. Integrating of existing EU open datasets related to agriculture (INSPIRE, SISE, GMES/Copernicus, GNSS, GALILEO, GEOSS, GBIF, EUNIS, EEA). Data publication and data linking of external agriculture data sources. Providing specific and high-value applications and services for the support in the planning a decision-making processes of different stakeholders groups.Providing a marketplace where data can be discovered and exchanged.

Contexte

The agriculture sector is of strategic importance for European society and economy. Due to its complexity, agri-food operators have to manage many different and heterogeneous sources of information. Agriculture requires collection, storage, sharing and analysis of large quantities of spatially and non-spatially referenced data. These data flows currently present a hurdle to uptake of precision agriculture as the multitude of data models, formats, interfaces and reference systems in use result in incompatibilities. In order to plan and make economically and environmentally sound decisions a combination and management of information is needed.

The key point of FOODIE project is creating a platform hub on the cloud where spatial and non-spatial data related to agricultural sector are available for agri-food stakeholder groups and interoperable. It will offer an infrastructure for the building of an interacting and collaborative network; the integration of existing open datasets related to agriculture; data publication and data linking of external agriculture data sources, providing specific and high-value applications and services for the support of planning and decision-making processes.

Additional comments

The FOODIEdata model has been revised by the Joint Research Centre to fit properly into the Pan-European legislation and research activities. Negotiations were initiated with the community of the OpenStreetMap to provide a new application schema called OpenAgrarMap. With the Copernicus programme releasing the first SENTINEL-2 images, FOODIE has started incorporating into its repositories those scenes relevant for the project pilot areas, which complement the existing LANDSAT8 imagery currently being used by FOODIE platform applications. FOODIE includes components as the marketplace, databases, catalogue, sensor services, data fusion services, visualization tools, metadata catalogue, notification broker, new widgets. Specialised services include economic statistics, machinery, fertilizer and irrigation services, yield simulation computed from satellite data. It is expected that these advanced tools can be used as local and global decision tools by different categories of users such as specialists, policy makers, stakeholders, as well as by farmers and foresters.

Additional information

www.foodie-project.it