EFITA Newsletter / 895, dated September 16, 2019

EUXDAT project: European e-Infrastructure for Extreme Data Analytics in Sustainable Development – EU contribution: 3 M€

Agriculture is a, literally, vital industry. Not only important for nourishment, but also a key determinant of health, economic and political stability; employment; business and biological ecosystems; and society. Because of its importance, most attention focuses on productivity but it is essential to have a global view in order to address environment sustainability problems. EUXDAT proposes an e-Infrastructure, which addresses agriculture, land monitoring and energy efficiency for a sustainable development, as a way to support planning policies.

In order to do so, we need to address the problems related to the current and future huge amount of heterogeneous data to be managed and processed. EUXDAT builds on existing mature components for solving them, by providing an advanced frontend, where users will develop applications on top of an infrastructure based on HPC and Cloud.

The frontend provides monitoring information, visualization, different parallelized data analytic tools and enhanced data and processes catalogues, enabling Large Data Analytics-as-a-Service. EUXDAT will include a large set of data connectors (UAVs, Copernicus, field sensors, etc.), for scalable analytics. As for the brokering infrastructure, EUXDAT aims at optimizing data and resources usage. In addition to a mechanism for supporting data management linked to data quality evaluation, EUXDAT proposes a way to orchestrate tasks execution, identifying whether the best target is a HPC center or a Cloud provider. It will use monitoring and profiling information for taking decisions based on trade-offs related to cost, data constraints, efficiency and resources availability.

During the project, EUXDAT will be in contact with scientific communities, in order to identify new trends and datasets, for guiding the evolution of the e-Infrastructure. The final result of the project will be and integrated e-Infrastructure which will encourage end users to create new applications for sustainable development.
See cordis.europa.eu
See euxdat.eu

EIP-AGRI SeminarMulti-level strategies for digitising agriculture and rural areas: Short report

The short report from the EIP-AGRI seminar ‘Multi-level strategies for digitising agriculture and rural areas’ provides you with 12 ideas to build effective digital strategies, 8 challenges to consider when developing your strategy, and 8 priority actions to move strategies forward. A total of 143 participants from 25 countries provided their input during the seminar.
See europa.eu

FieldAgent app

This app enables to fly your DJI drone and captures data to make beautiful agricultural crop health maps, count plants, find weeds, and more. Compatible with most any modern DJI drone, FieldAgent manages all the details of flying so you can focus simply on the desired map. New features to the app include flight planning options, a sleeker, more efficient user interface, in-app map views, and free access to the most commonly used features on mobile. FieldAgent helps the mission of making digital agriculture easy, seamless, and available to everyone. The app is available for Android and IOS systems
See sentera.com
See h2020fairshare.eu

Agrellus app

This app is an online marketplace that brings together buyers and sellers of agricultural inputs and commodities. The app represents a solution to buy and sell more than 7,000 agriculture products. Find the right products in the quantities you need. Request quotes from multiple dealers competing for your business. Set delivery deadlines that meet your farming needs. Agrellus has also added aerial and ground custom application services to the app. With Agrellus members can customise requests by crop; choose targets like insect, weed, seeding, or defoliation; select rate per acre; or get advice on correct rates or the best product for their needs. The app is available for Android and IOS systems
See agrellus.farm
See h2020fairshare.eu

Demystifying robots for use by everyday farmers

Ole Green, CEO of Danish robotics company AgroIntelli, aims to demystify robots for use by everyday farmers.
See futurefarming.com