WG2 Precision and Regenerative Agriculture

WG2 will bring experts from different fields together to develop common modeling and data assimilation strategies. Deliverables include workshops with experts from RS, PP, crop growth models (CGM), radiative transfer modeling (RTM, CGM+RTM=iCGM) to think about the needs, prerequisites, outputs, and challenges for multi-sensor PA and RA strategies for advanced crop stress detection.

Objectives

  1. Develop standardized phenological metric extraction approaches from RS time-series data and integration in CGMs.
  2. Provide the user community with data analysis tools integrating field delineation of management zones using soil property mapping and satellite-based data for the precision application of water, fertilizer, and pesticides.
  3. Assess pros and cons of different DSS to upscale modes to the field level for crop yield prediction, adoption of RDI strategies, field sensors, RS, crop modeling & digital twins, direct yield component detection and quantification.
  4. Scalable disease detection using hyperspectral imagery, RTM, and/or fluorescence.

Tasks

  1. Training School on the use of different CGMs, RTMs, and data assimilation strategies in the context of PA/RA. The Training School will take place during year 1.
  2. STSMs to investigate linkages between specific CGMs and RTMs (e.g., DSSAT and SCOPE). STSMs will take place following the training school in year 1, and during years 2 and 3.
  3. Hackathon (3 days) on feeding different data sets into iCGM, involving experts for SCOPE, CGM, and DA, and using different datasets containing UAV and nano-satellite data from different spectral domains plus field data. The WG1+WG2 Hackathon should take place during GP2.
  4. Joint uncertainty analysis and protocol standardization assessment summer school together with WG4. The WG2+WG4 joint summer school should take place during GP3.

Deliverables

  1. Review paper summarizing standardized protocols for RS data assimilation in CGMs.
  2. Joint WG1+WG2 Hackathon meta-review paper.

Leaders

Offer Rozenstein

offerr@volcani.agri.gov.il

Meetings

  • 2024-02-27 (virtual) kick-off. Agenda