Advanced Monitoring of Tree Crops for Optimized Management – How to Cope With Variability in Soil and Plant Properties (3D-Mosaic)
3D-MOSAIC project targets zone or tree individual production measures that shall trim down the environmental footprint of food production through enhanced resource efficiency. The application of ICT considering plant monitoring and spatial evaluation tools has a high potential to cope with this problem. 3D-MOSAIC captured a horizontal approach bringing together work groups with synergistic multidisciplinary expertise, facilities, and infrastructure. Experiments were carried out on economically important fruit trees (citrus and plum). Tree monitoring was carried out by means of manual rating, laboratory analyses, and automated 3D-MOSAIC sensors. For the automated plant readings, an autonomous platform was adapted to carry and control sensors (vision systems) and collect data from low-cost fruit sensors by wireless sensor networks in the orchard. As an important plant growth indicator, the leaf area was analyzed by algorithms for fast image analyses comparing 2D and 3D camera readings (3 RGB 1280x920 images with 60% of overlap (Bumblebee XB3), 2 Grasshopper 2 1600x1200 intensity (8bit) NIR Images) as well as LiDAR systems. Emerging sensors, capturing thermal imaging, NDVI and hyperspectral readings, were tested for measuring spatial canopy variation. Vis/NIR spectroscopy and multispectral backscattering imaging were employed on subsamples for approaching the fruit quality. Novel 3D-MOSAIC sensors for fruit analyses in-situ were developed, and advanced by means of robust calibrations based on physical models for photon transport in plum and citrus, as well as pip fruit and berries for comparison.
See also: https://smart-akis.com/SFCPPortal/#/app-h/technologies?techid=1061
Smart-AKIS: European Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation Systems (AKIS) towards innovation-driven research
in Smart Farming Technology
Ongoing | 2016-2018
in Smart Farming Technology
- Main funding source
- Horizon 2020 (EU Research and Innovation Programme)
- Geographical location
- Greece