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Gilgai soil structure impact on crop canopy
- May 28, 2021
- University of Castilla La Mancha
- Blog
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The COALA project The COALA H2020 project is contributing to better agriculture. COALA is implementing tools capable of determining the water and nutrient requirements of crops in space and time. These tools allow farmers to adjust the adequate supply of these resources to optimise yield. These tools are developed using a time series of images…
COALA Airborne Campaigns over Farmlands in Victoria
- March 26, 2021
- University of Melbourne
- Blog
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COALA airborne campaigns act in developing agricultural decision support for Australian farmers COALA offers a range of information to support irrigation and fertilisation management decisions using Sentinel-2 satellite data. Australian farmers’ input costs include a significant amount of water and fertilisers. Their optimal use has critical implications to various ecosystems that are sensitively influenced by…
Australia’s Food Bowl – The Murray-Darling Basin
- February 15, 2021
- UNSW
- Blog
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The Murray-Darling Basin (MBD) is a river system that covers 14% of the land in Australia. 70% of Australia’s agricultural water use comes from the MDB and it provides one third of Australia’s food supply. Which is how the basin earned its nickname Australia’s Food Bowl. The MDB extends across four states and one territory,…
Water managers sharing experience is key to success.
- February 8, 2021
- ANBI Campania
- Blog
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Role of ANBI Campania and its contribution to the COALA project, and the need for experienced water managers ANBI Campania (Italy) is one of the two European Water User Association partners in the COALA Project. ANBI transfers its experience as a European final user of satellite-based decision support systems. This blog collects the thoughts of…
Water and nutrient management in Australia
- November 30, 2020
- White Research
- Blog, Uncategorized
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Creating business value from data This blog contribution on water and nutrient management is from White Research. White Research (WR) is a social research and consulting subject matter expert. We specialise in consumer behaviour, market analysis, business planning and innovation management. During the past few months, the COALA team has been closely working together with Australian stakeholders…