FERIA
Project information
FERIACall: Services and Applications for Smart Agriculture
Id: 16178
Acronym: FERIA
Consortium:
No | Partner | Contact | Country | Total 1000€ | Funded 1000€ | Funder |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 Coord. | waylay | Veselin Pizurica | Belgium | 123.8 | 92.9 | SmartAgriFood |
2 | Department of Engineering Aarhus School of Engineering Aarhus University | Claus Sørensen | Denmark | 57.1 | 54.0 | Danish Agency for Science and Higher Education Ministry of Higher Education and Science |
The purpose of FERIA is to develop, test and exploit a probabilistic mobile app assessing trafficability/workability estimates and predictions for agricultural field operations. This system will have great influence in organic farming due to many field operations especially for mechanical weeding, as chemical herbicides are forbidden.
Field operations require the use of heavy vehicles and equipment on unpaved agricultural fields. When soil conditions are wet, equipment can cause substantial damage, leaving deep furrows. In extreme cases, implements sink and become stuck in the mud, causing considerable delays and expense to extricate the equipment. FERIA serves as a decision support system to decide when and where a certain operation can be scheduled causing minimum soil damage and targeting high productivity at the same time. The tool works together with soil moisture sensors and accurate weather forecasts providing the modelling capability for predicting field readiness based on the input data. Managers and machinery operators can assess the fields before allocating equipment and inputs. Non-supported assessments often cause equipment and material to be dispatched to fields that are not ready for fieldwork, impacting negatively on soil compaction and yield, where economical losses can range from 9-30% annually.
- The purpose of FERIA is to develop, test and exploit a probabilistic mobile app assessing trafficability / workability estimates and predictions for agricultural field operations.
- This system will have great influence in organic farming due to many field operations especially for mechanical weeding, as chemical herbicides are forbidden.
- FI-WARE
- Mobile app
- Trafficability