ARIESPACE provides ready-to-use and user-friendly Decision Support Systems (DSS) based on satellite observations, geospatial data and biophysical models. Our aim is to fill the gap between currently availability geospatial tools and quantitative information needed to people working in field.

1. Irrigation advisory service based on Satellite Data;
2. Detection of Irrigated plots, based on EO multi temporal vegetation status monitoring.
3. Land use and land cover mapping
4. Web GIS and Spatial DSS: Solutions for geographic data processing, spatial geo-database management and web publication.

ARIESPACE experience has been established in the context of several national and international projects funded by EU (FP6 Pleiades, FP7 Sirius, FP7 Ceop Aegis).

AgriSat is an industry leader in operational and personalized services for irrigation advisory (irrimaps.com), fertilization advisory (fertimaps.com), and water management (hidrogestor.es). Its easy-to-use tools and products help farmers and agribusiness optimize water and nutrients as well as economic and ecological benefits.

The AgriSat team has long-standing expertise in the operational use of Earth observation (EO) and webGIS for water and nutrient management and farm advisory. Thanks to a collaboration agreement with the University of Castilla-La Mancha, AgriSat has access to continuous innovation in leading-edge technology and research capacities.

AgriSat’s founding partners and team members are an interdisciplinary group of agronomists, farm consultants, farmers, scientists, and ICT developers. Always connected to farmers and the land, it draws on 20 years of experience in large international and national projects in a wide range of environments spanning 19 countries in 4 continents.

•   data acquisition by ground, air and satellite-borne devices, 

•  data processing, data analysis,

• modelling and visualisation across a variety of thematic applications of such technologies and techniques.

The generation and analysis of geospatial information (GI) is a critical component or even the focus of many research projects at UNSW, with active links with various external organisations that make extensive use of GI, including a number of government agencies, NGOs and the private sector, within Australia and overseas.

The Metternicht Lab (hosted by the School of Biological, Earth and Environmental Sciences) researches at the interface between science and policy, with experience in applied and translational research in environmental management and policy, and sustainability. The lab conducts highly inter-disciplinary research for the Sustainable Development Goals; and good policy and practices for landscape management.

Established in 1853, the University of Melbourne is a public-spirited institution that makes distinctive contributions to society in research, learning and teaching and engagement.

The University of Melbourne consistently ranked among the leading universities in the world, with international rankings of world universities placing it as number 1 in Australia and number 32 in the world (Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2017-2018).

The University of Melbourne is a leading international university with over 160 years experience in teaching and research. Our student body consists of 47,000 students with an International cohort of over 11,800 students from 120 countries. The university is one of the largest employers in the state of Victoria with more than 6500 professional and academic staff spreading over seven beautiful and historic campuses.

Remote Sensing-based crop water and nutrient management in precision agriculture.

Remote Sensing and GIS-based methods for agro-environmental modelling, crop yield, mapping irrigated surfaces, and interaction with users through webGIS platforms like SPIDERwebGIS®

A close collaboration during more than 20 years with farmers and water authorities to achieve a best crop management mainly in irrigated areas by using EO. This collaboration has led an operational EO-based service for irrigation water management, funded by the users, jointly with the river basin authority, which is running since 1998 (ERMOT project). Leading European projects, like H2020 FATIMA, www.fatima-h2020.eu, and other national and international projects.

In Campania Region operate n. 10 “Reclamation Consortiums” –  all enrolled in ANBI Campania.  The Association connets and guides regional Consortiums in promoting and implementing:

• Food security, through irrigation in agriculture;
• Environmental protection;
• Land safety, minimizing hydrological risk, and water protection.

The main task of Consortiums is to plan, to maintain and to coordinate both public and private works devoted to drainage, irrigation, flood control, soil defence, as well as works designed for environmental safeguard and restoring of waters (also for irrigation uses).  Having almost completed drainage and irrigation networks, Consortiums are now mainly focused on the maintenance and renovation of existing irrigation systems and on irrigation control.

In the field of common irrigation, the Consortiums in Campania are adopting modern methods of irrigation management which, thanks to the elaboration of satellite images, provides the stakeholders with an ‘irrigation advice’ on water volumes to distribute both at irrigation district and farm level.  The irrigation advice system adopted, called IRRISAT was presented and awarded at the Expo of Milan in 2015 among the ‘best practices’ on food safety

Advanced modelling skills include:

• radiative transfer modelling of vegetation for deriving biophysical variables of vegetation,
• EO data assimilation in evapotranspiration and crop growth models, and
• use of machine learning techniques for mapping of quantitative variables (e.g. yield) and change detection

The project team has developed operative solutions for large-scale satellite data processing for various agricultural applications, including transfer of technology (for irrigation, drought, yield monitoring). This includes the implementation of advisory services for agriculture. Data processed this way are currently used to assess crop water requirements in Austria (EO4Water), agricultural productivity in Brazil and to monitor drought occurrence and strength in Kenya, Austria, Germany & Switzerland. The team has also investigated and developed methods for the exploitation of new sensors data (e.g. PROBA-V, Sentinel-2 & -3 missions) and has a wide practical experience in field campaigns for validation of satellite products. Infrastructure at the Institute includes computer and software facilities for processing EO datasets. The institute owns proprietary code for time series (pre)processing and radiative transfer modelling.

The experiences deployed for this project includes the implementation, testing and operational execution of Sentinel-2 (S2A & S2B) data processing tailored to the needs of Irrigation Water Management. This will include the software infrastructure for S2 data processing, to run at the Earth Observation Data Center (EODC), which is federated with the WEkEO Copernicus Data and Information Access Services (DIAS)

• To ensure the rational and sustainable use of water in its management area.
• Water management monitoring, using the concept of “Water Management Unit” (WMU).
• To defend and represent the interests of our farmers.
• Field inspections and surveillance, with sanctioning for exceeding the water rights.

Our main job is the application of an Annual Exploitation Plan to every WMU, mandatory for all the farms and coordinated with the River Basin Authority. In order to control the quantity and location of irrigation water, we use Geographic Information Systems that integrate multiple layers of cartographic information, WMU, satellite images, etc.

Since it was established in Albacete (Spain) in 1995, we have taken part in numerous collaboration agreement with the Water Authority, University of Castilla-La Mancha, Technical Research Institutes and other entities. After 25 years we have now great skills and knowledge to manage 6.550 Water Management Units, 8.200 wells and 340 river pumpings.

BCG offers the following services to our members:

• Application of innovative research into on farm impact
• Investigation into the applicability of new technologies
• Organisation and delivery of field days/workshops
• Engagement with farmer and industry representatives

Our staff have extensive experience with translating science into profitable on farm applications. We understand how technology or innovation can be integrated on farm, we know what tools and technologies are currently being utilised and we know the best ways to obtain great farmer engagement.

• Partnership & Stakeholder Management Applied research on farms
• Imagery acquisition & converting this into on-farm decision making
• Integrating technology on farms

Our staff has been involved in more than 35 EU-funded projects in various capacities conducting, among others, quantitative and qualitative research (EU-level multi-component surveys, interviews, workshops, webinars), literature reviews, policy analysis, development of recommendations, and expert consultation activities. In the frame of its market research activities, the company has undertaken the design and analysis of several international quantitative and qualitative surveys aimed at extracting end-user, innovation-related insights. At the same time the company has also acted as Innovation Manager in various H2020 IA, RIA and CSA projects, effectively engaging targeted stakeholders, executing business modelling and deploying planning activities, paving the way for the market uptake of project assets.

At its core, WR possesses valuable expertise in business support and innovation management services including market and risk analysis, business modelling and planning, commercial exploitation of research results and innovations.

Innovation Management; business supporting, modelling and planning; market and risk analysis; commercial exploitation of research results and innovations in several European funded projects (IA, RIA and CSA). Here a small selection of relevant previous projects or activities, connected to the subject of COALA project: DIANA (H2020, 2017-2019); InnoRate (H2020, 2019 – 2021); AgroBioHeat (H2020, 2019 – 2021); ISABEL (H2020, 2016-2018); Cities-4-People(H2020, 2017-2020); Study CIPTEC (H2020, 2015-2018); Health2Market (FP7, 2012-2015).

Main services:
• Facilitate communication between farmers, advisors, researchers and industry
• Enable uptake of innovative on farm practices
• Identifying research and knowledge gaps
• Collaborate with industry and researchers to leverage research funds
• Extend new and innovative farm practices to irrigation farmers through field days workshops, social media or written format

Understand irrigated crops and farming systems, irrigation layouts and surface irrigation automation technology.
Skills and knowledge to collect, store, use and manage ag data.

Through our cross industry focus IREC has helped broad acre and horticulturalist irrigators to remain productive, profitable and sustainable through the adoption of new and often innovative ag practices as well as the uptake of cutting-edge technology. While the majority of the 560 membership is made of irrigation farmers, we also have a number of advisors, researcher and industry members.