Project is mentioned by the GSA at the Agriculture and Space Day held at the
Belgian Natural Science Museum in Brussels. This results in an article in the prestigious
INSIDE GNSS MAGAZINE.
event, GSA Director Carlo des Dorides said: “The uptake of precision
agriculture in Europe and worldwide continues to grow and the return on
investment in terms of increased productivity, cost-effectiveness and
sustainability clearly makes the business case for the development of more
applications, which rely on the precise positioning provided by GNSS.”
highlighted some of the other projects under way: the Mistrale project that
uses drones for soil water mapping, allowing farmers to optimize irrigation,
saving costs and increasing yields; and GreenPatrol, that will result in early
detection of pests and reduce productions losses and chemical use. These
projects are run under the EU R&D program, Horizon2020.
Secretary General Pekka Pesonen said that the farming community believes that
an organized food and agriculture data infrastructure will lead to improved
food safety, reduced environmental impacts and better health for people and
livestock, while improving the overall living conditions of farmers and their
“European GNSS, combined with the open data
policy of Copernicus, are inspiring innovators to create new value-added
services that help farmers to optimize their efficiency, improve crop yield and
reduce the environmental impact of their operations,” Des Dorides said.