HIDRONUT_SAT Operational Group: Application of high-resolution satellite images from the Copernicus program in the management of nutrition and irrigation in citrus crops
- Type Operational group
- Status In progress
- Execution 2024 -2025
- Assigned Budget 200.363,00 €
- Scope Autonómico
- Autonomous community Andalucía
- Project website GO HIDRONUT_SAT
The project includes the selection of platforms for high-resolution image acquisition, with special attention to European and Andalusian space infrastructure, and the installation of commercial equipment for collecting real-world soil moisture data on test plots.
Subsequently, the real data (maps with "true" moisture and nutrient data) will be analyzed comparatively with those obtained from satellite images to develop a platform that provides and stores maps of soil moisture and nutrients and allows monitoring of irrigation and fertilization management, generating decision-support information based on satellite images.
The key to improving crop production efficiency and reducing their environmental impact is to optimize input management, providing the required inputs at the right time. Satellite data from the COPERNICUS Program has revolutionized agricultural management. For certain intensive tree crops, they need to be complemented with higher-resolution data obtained using more expensive techniques, such as aerial photography and UAS.
Recent launches of nanosatellites, which achieve spatial resolution better than 0.3 m, are a more economical alternative to complement COPERNICUS data.
The project's objective is to improve the efficiency of water and nutrient application in citrus juice plantations by integrating information obtained from satellite images of varying resolutions.
To this end, the group will develop a platform that allows the latest advances generated by Earth observation tools to be used at the farm and agri-food industry level, leveraging public and private infrastructure currently available and in the near future. This will minimize the environmental impact of citrus production by optimizing the use of nutrients and water.
- Coordinator/entity name: GARCIA CARRION, 1890, SL
- Postal address: Old Lepe Road, km 4. Villanueva de los Castillejos (Huelva)
- Coordinator/entity email: cchacon@jgc.es
- Telephone: 959394300
- GARCIA CARRION, 1890, S.L.
- GARCIA CARRION, 1890, S.L. (cchacon@jgc.es)
- Campus de Excelencia Internacional Agroalimentario-ceiA3 (administracion@ceia3.es)
- GDR del Andévalo Occidental (gdr@adrao.com)
- GARCIA CARRION, 1890, S.L.
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