Development of a cluster to provide recent remote sensing products for agriculture Remote sensing data provide information on the current status and the biophysical properties of agricultural land, which are an important tool for practical agriculture. The EU Copernicus program will provide a new fleet of Earth observation satellites that provide operational satellite data in unprecedented quantity, temporal resolution and technical excellence.

This project aims at creating a novel decision support system to manage crops, which takes into account the needs of the plants and the environmental conditions. The system captures relevant data by means of wireless sensors and manages this data in an integrated cloud solution which includes self-learning algorithms. The project aims at building on Swiss agronomic excellence, namely in fruit orchard management, Agri-ICT and crop modelling and leveraging the existing pest forecast system SOPRA.