Laboratory of Machines and Automation
Division of Agricultural Structures and Agricultural Machinery
Department of Natural Resources Management and Agricultural Engineering
Agricultural University of Athens

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Expertise: Agricultural University of Athens (AUA) is the biggest agricultural university in Greece. It is present in +50 H2020 projects and various other European and National projects. A large number of the projects come from the private sector, accompanying around 60% of the total number of projects.. Facility: The relevant facilities are an RTK- GPS to produce elevation maps; EM38 for ECa mapping; CropCircle for NDVI mapping during the growing season, a multispectral and a thermal camera for crop monitoring scanning; leaf water potential instrument; soil water content measurmement probes; soil pepnetrometer; wireless water mesurment system; software for GIS analysis and geostatistical analysis, as well as two yield monitoring systems for cereals and cotton. Priority: (1) The application of precision agriculture technology and management strategies for high value crops, mainly vineyards, apples, pears and olive oil trees. (2) The analysis and design of sound farm management information systems for information intensive agricultural practices, such as precision agriculture and robotics.