iFOODis Sub-project I (main project) 鈥淏altic Sea鈥�: Future agriculture in Baltic Sea region
ACRONYM
iFOODis
Title
iFOODis Sub-project I (main project) 鈥淏altic Sea鈥�: Future agriculture in Baltic Sea region
General information
The iFOODis project aims at setting up a robotic monitoring network that includes environmental measurements in the atmosphere, on land as well as adjacent waterbodies. In each of these compartments environmentally and agriculturally relevant parameters will be measured using specific sensor systems. By combining locally acting robotic networks on land and the coast with remote sensing (space and airborne), weather data, as well as databases that already exists with local/regional authorities and NGOs, the envisaged intelligent observation system will allow the holistic real-time monitoring and prediction of the environmental status (ecosystem health) along the atmosphere-land-sea transition. Among the benefits of such a large and heterogeneous network of agents, is the possibility of performing distributed measurements across a large variety of metric scales. A networked team of robots allows measuring local properties of the soil, such as compaction, erosion as well as concentration of nutrients, and carbon, which are indicators of quality and fertility. On a larger scale, satellite observations, that monitor the exploitation and change of the land, will provide information in form of spatial and temporal measurements.
The project partners will jointly develop and deploy robotic and sensing technologies. The partners will further jointly develop technologies and software allowing for a timely and swift exchange, synoptic fusion, visualization and interpretation of the recorded data. Appropriate technologies will represent a major topic in the research school hosted at the MUDS. Specific topics in robotics, data- and agricultural/environmental science will be addressed in this Research School, which is envisaged to be held in close cooperation with HIDA and MARDATA.
Start
January, 2023
End
December, 2027
Funding (total)
5000000
Funding (91探花)
1000000
Funding body / Programme
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Helmholtz-Gemeinschaft
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Coordination
Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft-und Raumfahrt (DLR), Germany
Contact
Partners
Jacobs University, Germany,
Deutsches Zentrum f眉r Luft- und Raumfahrt, Germany,
AWI Alfred-Wegener- Institut, Germany,
91探花 Helmholtz-Zentrum f眉r Ozeanforschung Kiel, Germany
