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GI2015 – GI/GIS/GDI – Forum

Open GeoData Management in Europe of Regions 15. Grenzüberschreitendes Sächsisches GIS – Forum – 15. September 2015 in Dresden

CoO / GI2015-Workshop on OGD Management for Agriculture & Forestry in Europe of Regions

NNR-Special-Edition-2015 PROCEEDINGS – “GI2015-X-border-GI/GIS/GDI-FORUM” – DRESDEN ISSN 1801-6480

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CLUB OF OSSIACH & GI2015 WORKSHOPS

PROGRAMME & PROCEEDINGS

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15. SEPTEMBER 2015

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SUSTAINABILITY OF INTER-REGIONAL COLLABORATION EU Support Programme for “Inter-Regional and Cross-border Collaboration” – Free State of Saxony

GI2015 – INTERREGIONAL SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME – COMMITTEE

SCIENTIFIC PROGRAMME MEMBERS: Chairs: Doz. Dr. F. HOFFMANN (IGN/DE), Dr. K. CHARVAT (CCSS/CZ) & Dir.W.MAYER (PROGIS/AT) Members: Prof. BEHR (HFT/DE), Dr. FURDIK (STUBA/SK), Dr. K. JANECKA (WBU/CZ) ORG-COM-Members: Dr. G. HOFFMANN (IGN), Prof. S. KLOSS (IGN), Dr. K.-D. MICHAEL (IGN).

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Dr. Karel CHARVAT, EU-Project-Manager CoO Vice President; Past President of CCSS, Praha (CZ) CCSS (Czech Center for Science and Society e.V.)

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ISAF / Club of Ossiach & GI2015 Workshops @ 15.09.2015 ZINT – BUILDING – AGRI CAMPUS OF TUD – BERGSTRAßE 120 / *ENTRY KOHLENSTRAßE* !

FINAL PROGRAMME

GI2015

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CoO

10 09:00 – 09:30

Welcome & Introduction by Frank HOFFMANN (IGN-Vorstand)

The Target of the Club of Ossiach (CoO) Overview of the Networking Event & Workshops / Development perspectives

Ajit MARU, Senior Officer, Global Forum on Agricultural Research

(GFAR c/o FAO-RD) / Chair of CoO

09:30 – 10:00

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ICT for a sustainable agriculture & forestry – Public support needs/SensorNet

Karel CHARVAT, CEO WirelessInfo / Vice-Chair of CoO

10:00 – 10:30

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ICT for a sustainable agriculture and forestry – Status and missing

Walter H. MAYER, CEO PROGIS / Treasurer of CoO

10:30 – 11:00 Coffee Break

GI2015

11:00 – 11:30

21 11:30 – 12:00

25

12:00 – 12:30

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Workshop - Keynotes

Jakub KARAS (UPVISION): THE POSSIBILITY OF USING UAS IN THE

ENVIROMENT

Lenka HLADIKOVA (CENIA): COPERNICUS PROGRAMME AND

SENTINEL DATA FOR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY

Stefaan DeMEY & Grazia FIORE (EURISY): THE ADDED VALUE OF

COPERNICUS AND GALILEO FOR GEO-INFORMATION AND LBS AT

THE SERVICE OF AGRICULTURE & FORESTRY IN THE REGIONS

12:30 – 13:30

Lunch Break

CoO 13:30 – 13:45

Workshops – Introduction by Ajit Maru (GFAR c/o FAO-RD),

Chair of CoO

13:45 – 14:30

14:30 – 15:15

Workshop 1: Enabling Innovation for Informing Farmers

Workshop 1 continuing

15:15 – 15:30 Coffee Break

15:30 – 16:15

16:15 – 17:00

Workshop 2: ICT supporting Innovative Advisory Services

Workshop 2 continuing

17:00 – 17:15

17:15 – 17:45

17:45 – 18:00

Workshop 1 Summary Report

Workshop 2 Summary Report

CoO Networking & GI2015 - Conclusion of Day 2

"Get together"

19:00 – 23:00

Social "Get together"

Evening at BOWLING-Arena, Südhöhe/Bergstraße





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COO&GI2015 – ANMELDUNG # REGISTRATION

TEILNEHMER / Participant ( )* STUDENT/ Aspirant ( )* RENTNER/ Pensioner ( )*

Teilnahme / Participation @ Social Event "Get together" ( )* ?

NAME, Vorname (Titel / Degree)*

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KONTAKT ADRESSE (Straße / PLZ / Ort / Street / ZIP / City)*

KONTAKT PHONE* / Mobile

KONTAKT EMAIL* / SKYPE

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GI2015 & CoO Registration Deadline for Participants due latest at: 3311..0088..22001155 !

Registration by Email: [ GI2015 @ IGN-SN.de ] or Registration by FAX: ++4499 335511 440011 44226600

GI2015 is supported by EU Framework Program of Inter-regional Collaboration, therefore, Participation is FREE OF CHARGE ( ! ) but, a

small FEE for not supported CATERING & SOCIAL “GET TOGETHER” SERVICES will be charged for Participants (25 €) and Students (10 €) at CoO / GI2015 Registration Desk upon arrival at 15. September !

Datum / Date : / / 2015 Unterschrift / Signatur :

BEMERKUNGEN / Comments by IGN :






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GI2015 – 15. Sächsisches GI/GIS/GDI – Forum

GI2015 – WELCOME & INTRODUCTION

GI2015 – MOTIVE & CONCEPT

– INTRODUCTION TO OPEN DATA MANAGEMENT IN EUROPE OF REGIONS –

Doz. Dr. Frank HOFFMANN, CSc – Vorstandsvorsitzender IGN e.V. Academician of International Eurasian Academy of Sciences (IEAS)

ABSTRACT <> SUMMARY

The European Commission has positioned itself as an innovative player in the field of multi-purpose use of OPEN GEO DATA (OGD) and PUBLIC SECTOR INFORMATION (PSI). The goal is to develop an open, dynamic Media industry that refine public data into valuable information and knowledge not only for ICT Experts, Public Administrators and Decision Makers, but also allowing transparency and participation for User Communities and Citizens.

With EU DIRECTIVES PSI (2003/98/EC / updated 2013/XX/EC), INSPIRE (2007/02/EC) legal requirements were provided enabling new developments and opportunities for funding of projects beyond 2014 – 2020 in EUROPE OF REGIONS. The European Commission presented in 2011 the „Strategy of Open Data in Europe“ to push the growth of EU economy to nearly 40 Billions Euro/year. However, there is a need for more & better knowledge about new EU policies and strategies like "DIGITAL EUROPE & HORIZON 2020". Therefore, these awareness needs require more and comprehensive information and knowledge, as well as creative, innovative actions for continuing education and training:

[ http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1524&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en ]

The Use of ICT's in agriculture, forestry & regional development to improve productivity (inclusive sustainability) has evidently and substantially lagged than it other spheres of economy and everyday life. The Development of ICT's in agriculture & forestry is at the moment largely for use in very large farms in economically developed countries though they would benefit equally if not more in small farms which are resource poor in developing countries. ICT's for SMART/Precision agriculture are not scale neutral for all farming. Developed and developing countries need to innovate, adapt and adopt ICT's to improve productivity of their small farmers but they do not have the capacities to do so. Neither is there investment to research and develop appropriate ICT's for small farmers.

The UN-FAO Webinar: [ https://www.asist.org/Webinars/2015-09-09-Webinar-DCMI-99bnG.pdf ]

The institutions that are needing to support the use of ICT's in agriculture, for example, for more open access to data and information, are still not developed. FOODIE – Farm Oriented Open Data in Europe from the 7th Framework Program of the European Union with the target to get better access to data might be one step ahead:

to get better access to open data but also as data alone is not all,

to get better integration into stakeholder´s cooperation and

to support public AND private interests

http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=IP/11/1524&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

https://www.asist.org/Webinars/2015-09-09-Webinar-DCMI-99bnG.pdf





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We know very little of how actors, especially farmers, and stakeholders like consumers are being inclusively engaged to bring about effective management and use of ICT's in Agriculture & Forestry.

Therefore, sustainable decision making requires greater Awareness of intellectual property rights (IPR) and Knowledge exchange on copyrights, open data licensing rules and creative commons bylaws for economic, ecological & social applications for agriculture & forestry in Europe of Regions.

Finally, there is still yet a need for comprehensive information, communication, education and training actions, particularly at local, regional, cross-border and inter-regional levels.

The Saxon State Minister of Environment, Agriculture and Forestry speaking at 2nd December 2014 in the Workshop »Innovationen für die Landwirtschaft« on presenting innovation ideas for the branches of Agriculture and Forestry decleared:

„Solcher Wissenstransfer ist enorm wichtig... „Allerdings ist es wie so oft: wenn es an Kontakten zwischen den Akteuren fehlt, dann kommen sinnvolle Neuerungen nur schwer zur Anwendung“. Dabei hat Sachsen beste Voraussetzungen für Innovationen. Die sächsische Agrarstruktur ist so vielfältig wie in kaum einem anderen Bundesland, daher ist auch das Potential für Innovationen in der Landtechnik in Sachsen enorm...

Source: Medienservice Sachsen - SMUL, 2.12.2014 [ http://www.medienservice.sachsen.de/ ]. See also: "Club of Ossiach - Vision & Mission": [ http://www.clubofossiach.com/coo/visionandmission.html ]

The European Commission approved at 16th December 2014 the Working Programme 2015 as well other Supporting programmes for rural areas, among them the Federal Framework Programmes of Germany and other Programmes for States of Saxony and Saxony-Anhalt.

The Rural development is the "second pillar" of the EU's agricultural policy. For Germany are available a total of 9.45 billion euros by 2020 including EU funds, which are supplemented with national funds from Germany which have to be managed in the provinces:

[ http://ec.europa.eu/deutschland/press/pr_releases/12962_de.htm ]

The GI2015 Forum should promote sustainable, cross-border and inter-regional exchange of experience in cooperation with the international "Club of Ossiach" (CoO).

SUSTAINABILITY & INTEROPERABILITY OF AGRICULTURAL & FORESTRY DATA POLICY

OPEN GEODATA MANAGEMENT IN EUROPE OF REGIONS

Therefore, the Focus of the common CoO & GI2015 - Workshops content is intenting on inter-regional exchange of experience and information for integration and management of Open Geo DATA mainly at local, regional and cross-border levels.

However, the most problematic field is the CROSS-BORDER ADAPTATION and SEMANTIC

INTEROPERABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY of OPEN DATA, SERVICES AND APPLICATIONS for effective governance, transparency and participation to create OPEN APPS for

Agriculture, Forestry, Infrastructure and Environment !

Proposals for presentation (title+abstract, max. 250-300 words in German or English or Russian) had to be submitted by 15.07.2015 to allow composing of the final draft of programme framework, while extented Summary texts were due until 31.08.2015 using the DOC templates (available for downloading) from Weblog at [ http://GDI-SN.blogspot.com ] website !

http://www.medienservice.sachsen.de/

http://www.clubofossiach.com/coo/visionandmission.html

http://ec.europa.eu/deutschland/press/pr_releases/12962_de.htm






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OPEN CALL for PRESENTATIONS - Subsequently, following cross-border workshop topics were planned (as usually, in German, English or Russian):

GI2015 – Call For Presentations – Proposed for Workshop TOPICS

UAV Technologies and Open Data for Precision Farming & Precision Forestry issues

COPERNICUS Program and SENTINEL Technologies for Agriculture and Forestry

INNOVATION and Technology transfer for International cross-border cooperation

MAPPING Technologies for Land use, Land cover and Rural Development

OPEN GEODATA Management for Environmental and Emergency

GI2015 – Workshop SCHEDULES

31.05.2015: Publication of Open Call for Presentations

15.07.2015: Schedule for Proposals of Presentation Abstracts [ [email protected] ]

31.07.2015: Abstract Confirmation and Draft of GI2015 Workshop Programm

31.08.2015: Registration Schedule for Workshop Participants [ [email protected] ]

01.09.2015: Author's Delivery of Summary DOC's and Presentation PPT‘s [ [email protected] ]

14.09.2015: IGN's Invitation for Keynote speakers & VIP’s (by Invitation only)

15.09.2015 GI2015 Workshop Forum (“Konrad-Zuse"-Haus and/or TU Dresden)

GI2015 – Contacts & Logistics

GI2015 Contact [ [email protected] | [email protected] | [email protected] ]

GI2015 is supported by EU Inter-regional Cooperation Programme and, therefore,

GI2015 Participation is FFRREEEE OOFF CCHHAARRGGEE ( ! )

Participants and target groups: Developers, Providers, Integrators and Users of Agricultural & Forestry Sector Information and Open GeoData, GeoService and GeoApplications for integrated Environmental Portals used in local / regional Governments, Administrations, Enterprises and for private Applications & Business (Enviro protection, agriculture, forestry, management, etc.).

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ABOUT THE X-BORDER IGN FOUNDERS – IGN (DE) & CCSS (CZ)

IGN e.V. – INNOVATION.Grenzüberschreitendes Netzwerk ( X-border Network ) – is a non-profit Association ( NGO / gemeinnütziger Verein ) for Education, Development and Knowledge Transfer – founded in 2002 as “GDI-Sachsen” (i.G.) – the final outcome of the “OpenGIS Strategy Seminar” series in GI2000 & GI2002 at “Bildungswerk Ost-West” (BOW), but later on was re-founded as the follow-up “IGN” e.V. at September 2nd, 2003, by Czechia and Saxonia experts of Cartomatics, Cyberlaw, Cybernetics, Geomatics, Economics, Pedagogics, Regional Development and Spatial Sciences.

Its main goals: supporting GEO – ENVIRO – SPATIO – oriented Awareness, Business and Openness in Training, Education and Research on GeoINSPIRE’d Interoperability, Sustainability, and Usability of spatial Data, Services and Applications for X-border-Infrastructures of Spatial Information in EUROPE of REGIONS.

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The CCSS – Czech Center for Science and Society – is an Association of high tech SMEs, the public administration and research organizations. It is an independent, non-profit and non-governmental organisation. It is a type of virtual centre of excellence with the focus on the implementation of new communication and navigation technologies which have potential for sustainable development. The CCSS co-operates with a wide range of institutions and individuals, home and foreign ones. It is focused on research & development activities in the field of international research projects and utilization of modern technologies. CCSS supports co-operation networks of the small and medium business within the framework of regional economies and helds intensive contacts, particularly in Europe, Asia, Africa and South America. The CCSS is focused on transfer, analyses and development of the most advanced GI & ICT technologies which are contributing to the growth of productivity not only in industrial enterprises but in the branch of small and medium business as well. CCSS is active in the agriculture, industry, trade and services, predominantly in agricultural regions. The priority of activities of CCSS is Environment protection and Crisis management. In this field CCSS is active in European FP7 research and “best practice” excellence & social networks.

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PPRROOCCEEEEDDIINNGGSS CLUB OF OSSIACH & GI2015 WORKSHOPS

Abstracts & Summaries & Workshops

DRESDEN 15. September 2015

Edited by IGN e.V.

Doz. Dr. Frank HOFFMANN, CSc – IGN Dipl.Ing. Walter H. MAYER - PROGIS (Villach)

Dr. Karel CHARVAT – CCSS (Praha)

Dr. Klaus-Dieter MICHAEL – VSBI

Dr. Gudrun HOFFMANN – IGN

Prof. Dr. Siegmar KLOSS – IGN

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OVERVIEW OF THE CLUB OF OSSIACH

NETWORKING EVENT & WORKSHOPS INTRODUCTION

Ajit MARU Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR / FAO-RD)

ABSTRACT

Keywords: Agriculture, Agrifuture, Brain storming, Club of Ossiach (CoO), Environment,

Farming, Food, Forestry, ICT, Networking, Protection, Safety, Services

Content:

Agriculture and forestry are vital economic sectors producing food, feed, energy and provid environmental services through managing soil, water, air and biodiversity holistically. They also contribute to manage and reduce risks from natural disasters, provide the social infrastructure to maintain cultural heritage and are part of a complex agro-food/wood chain with many stakeholders that also need support by ICT.

Vision (Objectives and goals): The CoO will develop into an internationally accepted think-tank on issues related to ICT use in agricultural development globally. Through its members, it will support effective use of ICTs, better knowledge management for sustainability in farming and in the protection of environment.

Mission: (How to meet aims, objectives and goals): The CoO will regularly discuss collectively through Agrifuture Days, seminars etc. and collaboratively act on influencing to use ICT to improve productivity, profitability, contribution to food and nutritional security and safety globally along with the protection of the environment.

Author Ajit MARU

Global Forum on Agricultural Research - Senior Officer - FAO/RD - Roma

Chair of Club of Ossiach (CoO)

References [ http://www.egfar.org/contacts/maru-ajit ]

[ http://www.ClubOfOssiach.org ]

Contact E-mail: [email protected]

http://www.egfar.org/contacts/maru-ajit

http://www.clubofossiach.org/






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A FRAMEWORK FOR DATA AND INFORMATION SHARING

FOR AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH FOR DEVELOPMENT:

A PERSPECTIVE FOR ITS DEVELOPMENT

Ajit MARU

Global Forum on Agricultural Research Secretariat (GFAR - Rome)

In developing a framework for data and information sharing for agricultural research for

development (ARD), the first question we need to ask is to why we need a framework, and prior to it,

why do we need to share data and information for agricultural research for development?

The answer lies in the fact that current and emerging challenges in agricultural development are global in

their scope. Every community and country needs increased agricultural productivity from their farms, and

just returns for their farmers and producers. They need to reduce hunger and malnutrition, alleviate

extreme poverty and use natural resources such as land and water and energy more efficiently and

sustainably. Climate change affects their agriculture now and will affect more in the future and they need

to adapt their agriculture rapidly to it as also contribute, as responsible world citizens, to mitigating and

reducing climate change and its effects.

Desertification, trans-boundary diseases, loss of agrobiodiversity and equitable participating in global

agricultural markets are also universal problems. And all need research and innovation to be solved.

Data and information sharing for agricultural research for development enable, among many benefits:

New information and knowledge to be generated

Localize globally available information and knowledge and enable it to be used more effectively

Increase efficiency and effectiveness of research and its outputs and innovation in time, cost,

quality and human effort

Reduce reinvention and repetition of research efforts

Allow greater inclusiveness and participation in research and innovation

Bring cross-disciplinary and specialized skills to agricultural research

Reduce “market failure” or inability to use research outputs effectively and/or efficiently

Create new research directions and avenues

Bring greater equity in using agricultural knowledge across and among communities

The second question that needs to be asked is what do we do to improve data and information

sharing in ARD?

The answer, in part, lies in the potential of new information and communications technologies (ICTs).

These ICTs have enabled new avenues to generating, processing, sharing and exchanging data and

information. The processing power of computing devices has increased dramatically, doubling almost

every two years while their size and energy consumption has reduced enabling more mobile use.

Similarly, connectivity of these devices has increased not only in speed but in spread and is becoming

ubiquitous facilitating further mobility in the use of these devices even in remote, rural areas. “Cloud”

computing is enabling huge amounts of data to be stored, accessed and used remotely. “Crowd”

computing enables communities to collectively generate, process and use information, many a times

through mobile devices, to solve a community’s problems.

The Web 2.0 technologies allow an interactive web and in the near future a “semantic” web, which

provides information as a human mind understands “information” and further down in the near future, a

“symbiotic” web, where the web symbiotically or through mutual benefits provides information to all who

are dependent on it rather than only to those who can afford it.





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To move faster in harnessing the potential of new ICTs in ARD, and it is important here, that information

(and knowledge) is available and accessible to those who are dependent on it and that they can use

information effectively, we need to start looking at the information related to agriculture available in the

public domain and making it more accessible.

And why the focus on the public domain?

Because, a majority of information generators, assemblers, amalgamators and disseminators of

agricultural information for development are from the public sector and funded through public funds.

They are obliged to put their information in the public domain transparently. To make the information

more easily accessible as also interoperatable so as to make its effective use in different situations

possible and easier, we need to work at the level of information objects or data. And, therefore, we need

to create open data repositories and couple them to concepts of “linked open data” or data objects that can

be hyperlinked across common attributes.

Of course, to develop these data repositories that can be located and used globally we will need standards,

norms and regulations to govern effective, efficient, transparent and equitable flows and uses. We will

need standard descriptors, mutually agreed taxonomies and vocabularies based on common ontologies to

describe and organize the storage and access to the data. To reduce costs and time in assembling data to

meet the information needs for meeting the most critical challenges to agricultural development, we may

need to define Core Data Sets that Institutions and National Systems of agricultural research and

Innovation universally may contribute and work in the spirit of global shared responsibility, collaboration

and partnership. And for this we will need policies and strategies at Institute, Organization and Country

level.

We will need governance structures, legislation and International treaties to share data and information

openly as also protect interests of all parties in information management and use. We may need to create

Trust organizations that will manage the data and metadata that is shared openly at national and global

levels. We will need to look at investments, financial and in human skills that will be needed to manage

the entire information infrastructure in global ARD. And, of course, for all these ideas to take off, we will

need advocacy and promotion and new capacities to advocate and manage open data repositories

sustainably and all the issues related to them.

The third question that we should ask is, how do we do all that is needed to be done for data and

information sharing for ARD?

In my opinion, we need to start, through inclusive dialogue, by creating a framework for data and

information sharing for ARD for all involved to follow and contribute to systematically. A lot is already

being done and we need not all do the same individually and independently. We simply do not have the

resources for it. For example, the concept of open repositories is now well developed and there is constant

development of the concept of “linked open data” with basic standards such as XML, RSS, RDF etc

already in place.

The taxonomies and vocabularies, such as AGROVOC, are being rapidly evolving. We need to look at

Core Data Sets though some such as for weather and climate, plant germplasm and spatial data already

exist and some for example in agronomy are in the making.

The issue is who defines them?

We need to look at Trust Organizations. The CIARD.RING led by GFAR is one of them. We need to

look at implications of open data access in ARD at organizational and national levels and this can be done

through GFAR and FAO.

We need to advocate for increased investment in information infrastructure in global ARD. And much

more already done, being done and need to be done can be mapped once we have a framework.

SOURCE:

http://www.fao.org/docs/eims/upload/295233/4709_A_Framework_for_Data_and_Information_sharing_for_ARD_Ajit_Maru.pdf

http://www.fao.org/docs/eims/upload/295233/4709_A_Framework_for_Data_and_Information_sharing_for_ARD_Ajit_Maru.pdf





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ICT FOR A SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE & FORESTRY PUBLIC SUPPORT NEEDS

THE CLUB OF OSSIACH RECOMMENDATIONS ABOUT

ICT FOR FAMILY FARMING

ABSTRACT

Karel CHARVAT Club of Ossiach / Vice-Chair of CoO

Keywords: ICT for Agriculture, Small farms, Club of Ossiach

Content:

The Club of Ossiach is a voluntary group of agriculturists, agribusiness managers,

agriculture and forestry technologists, environmentalists and agricultural ICT specialists from

around the world to collectively discuss and collaboratively act on influencing the use of

information and communications technologies (ICTs) to improve agricultural productivity,

profitability and contribution to food and nutritional security and safety globally.

For ICTs to improve agricultural productivity, profitability and contribution to food and

nutritional security and safety globally there will be a need for collaboration between the public,

private and community sectors. The public sector provides the policies, Institutions and supports

basic research, the private sector brings entrepreneurial skills and provides services and together

with the community sector brings innovation that needs to be shared rapidly for development and

progress.

Author

Dr. Karel Charvat (CEO of WirelessInfo / CZ)

Reference

http://www.wirelessinfo.cz

Contact

Karel Charvat, Cholinská 1048/19, 784 01 Litovel, Czech Republic

Mobile: +420-605033596

EMail: [ mailto:[email protected]:[email protected] ]







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SUMMARY

The "Club of Ossiach" offers a platform for interaction and dialogue for representatives of

all the 3 sectors, public, private and community which includes the cooperatives and producer

organizations to improve agricultural productivity, profitability, sustainability and contribution to

food and nutritional security and safety globally with the respect of environment protection.

Members of Club of Ossiach considered the topic through expression of their research findings

and collecting, experiences, opinions and knowledge on trends and disruptions influencing:

Family farming in different parts of the world which in general reflected trends globally

Development of information and communications technologies, especially those

influencing agriculture

Family farming in the future that can be improved by the developments in information

and communications technologies

From this, they considered issues that are and would emerge for policy, Institutions,

organizations, use of technology, in particular Information and Communications Technologies

(ICTs), and the participation by agricultural and related communities in improving family

farming.

An important question is whether ICTs can contribute to reducing marginalization of family

farming and abandonment of rural areas by these farmers. Participants pointed out that these

farmers also play a vital role in preserving cultural heritage and ecosystems that enhance the

quality of life of urban areas, a role that is not yet fully recognized by society and such

marginalization and abandonment of family farming could have disastrous consequences for the

society. Then, how can ICTs improve family farming in all these dimensions?

The trends in ICT were identified as:

• Exponential increase in computing power, memory, storage, capability (Moore’s Law)

with lowering of costs

• Near-ubiquity of mobile computing

• Spread of broadband connectivity

• More big/open/real-time data

• More Cloud for data and apps

• Content Co-Generation

• Predictive Analytics and decision support systems

• Semantic Web

• Wearable Computers

• Internet of Things

• Telematics, Geographic information Systems with location services and more precise,

real time earth observations

• Use of field sensors/embedded computing

• More and new social media

• More crowd-sourcing models

• 3D printing

• Visualization

• Automation, Linked Tools and Processes, Robotics

• Drones

• More smart phones and tablets





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The ICTs that are currently impacting agriculture are:

• Automation, Robotics, Autonomous, Linked Tools, Equipment and Process Monitoring,

• Wearable Computing

• Controller Area Networking/Sensor Networks/Grid Computing

• Big data at different scales from field, farm to global

• Farm Management Information System

• Global Positioning System – Multi satellite

• Drones and Low cost Satellites/Micro satellites

• More precise geo-spatial data and 3D maps with elevation information

• Humidity, Ambient Environment and Soil Nutrient sensors

• Photometry

• Visualization and Integrated Display

• Social Media, MOOCs, Online Learning

• Rural access to online financial services

• Traceability systems using low cost RFIDs, NFC and other new technologies

• Telematics

• Variable rate Irrigation/Fertigation and prescriptive planting

• Weed, Biodiversity and Pest Management through Integrated systems

The participants drew attention to the current centrality the Smartphone with mobile connectivity

and access to cloud based data and applications are bringing to new and innovative knowledge

based services to rural communities.

The uses of these ICTs individually and with other ICTs in systems are resulting in complex

applications to improve productivity, resource use, reduce time and drudgery such as for farm

management, forecasting, marketing, logistics and quality assurance. ICTs are increasingly

improving access to information, knowledge, skills and technology for farmers and their

communities, improving farm productivity and ability to participate in markets and in

contributing to increased sustainability and resilience of farming systems while transforming

them to meet new challenges.

Participants drew attention that there were trends not only in digital ICTs but in all ICTs such as

print media and in learning. There were trends such as in the democratization of science and

education that enabled increasing flow of new information and learning to family farmers. This

could be harnessed and lead to an exponential increase in innovation and capacity to adopt and

adapt new ideas, skills and technologies to improve family farming.

The possible disruption to the trends in farming and use of ICTs include:

• Health scares (food, environment)

• Trade disruptions and exclusions (Non-tariff, tariff, political, market failures)

• Political upheavals

• Information conflicts

• Other Resource conflicts (water, land)

• Developments in other technologies such as Nanotechnologies, Materials, Biotechnology,

Space Technology

• Emergence of alternative socio-economic values to short-term profit and productivity

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Needs of Family Farmers for improving their Farming Systems through ICTs .There are various

trends (and possible disruptions) in family farming and ICTs, their possible scenarios and the key

driving forces, equitable participation in fair and just markets and the need for learning to learn

and effectively use knowledge, skills and technology for continuously adapting and improving

family farming to emerging challenges concluded that family farmers for improving their

farming systems through ICTs needed:

• Policies promoting and enabling aggregation of family farmers and farming systems such

as through cooperatives, producer organizations, farmer organizations etc. ICTs can

contribute to “virtual” aggregation of farms, synchronization of farm inputs, processes,

outputs and logistics to participate in markets.

• New Forms of advisory and support systems for knowledge, skills and technology

• Trust Centers with Data and Information Agreements, Treaties with regulatory and

enforcement mechanisms to share data at various levels and among multiple categories of

users from plot, farm, farming system, region, national to global agricultural and related

systems.

• New business-models that integrate governments, farmers and banks, insurance,

market intermediaries, cooperatives etc. for participation in markets

• Inclusive Governance of flow of data, information, knowledge, skills and technology

• Inclusive development of standards

• Open Technologies – Open data, information, knowledge, learning

• Increased democratization of science, learning and support to exponential innovation

• Lower cost of Hardware, infrastructure and connectivity

There are several dimensions in fulfilling these needs such as for investment through public,

private, crowd and community, infrastructure such as for data, applications, analytics, hardware,

software and connectivity, content, integration of data, information, information systems and

applications and governance.

To contribute to improving smallholder family farming, ICTs should make agriculture more

knowledge driven and:

1. Enable family farmers to participate equitably and as entrepreneurs in markets that are

just and fair

2. Reduce transaction costs, wastage, improve quality, save time and decrease drudgery

3. Enable and involve small and medium entrepreneurs to provide knowledge based services

for these farmers

4. Enable gender and youth to access and share information and participate and engage

effectively in all aspects of decision making in their farming and related livelihoods

5. Enable and support small holder farmers to aggregate into cooperatives, producer

companies and organizations with similar functions

6. Support these farmers to continuously innovate their farming and participate in research

7. Help formulate policies, change Institutions, their structures and work processes





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OPEN SENSOR NET

Karel CHARVAT Wirelessinfo

ABSTRACT

Keywords:

BigData, European projects, multi-disciplinary, OpenData, OpenSensorNet, Sensor Network,

precision agriculture, value adding chain

Content:

Agriculture requires the collection, storage, sharing and analysis of large quantities of

spatially referenced data. For this data to be effectively used, it must be transferred between

different hardware, software and organisations.

These data flows currently present a hurdle to uptake of precision agriculture as the

multitude of data models, formats, interfaces and reference systems in use result in

incompatibilities. Management of huge amounts of data is a challenge.

Sensors in the fields, buildings, vehicles or satellites provide data on high time-frequency

and fast accumulation of data. Without smart sensors and better developed data management

(including data quality algorithms) the amount of data grows overwhelming and remains unused.

OpenSensorNetwork is common initiative started by more European projects like

SDIApps, FOODIE, FATIMA, and also supported by other activities national or Future Internet

(ImatoP, SmartHoney).

The aim of Open Sensors Network is to create an environment where different groups of

volunteers (for example farmers) will be able to integrate low cost sensors (meteorological,

quality of air, etc) into local and regional web sensor networks.

Author Karel Charvat

WirelessInfo

Reference

[ http://http://www.wirelessinfo.cz ]

Contact Cholinská 1048/19, 784 01 Litovel, Czech Republic

EMail: [ charvat (at) wirelessinfo.cz ]

http://www.wirelessinfo.cz/





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SUMMARY

Introduction

Agriculture requires the collection, storage, sharing and analysis of large quantities of spatially

referenced data. For this data to be effectively used, it must be transferred between different

hardware, software and organisations. These data flows currently present a hurdle to uptake of

precision agriculture as the multitude of data models, formats, interfaces and reference systems

in use result in incompatibilities. Management of huge amounts of data is a challenge.

Sensors in the fields, buildings, vehicles or satellites provide data on high time-frequency and

fast accumulation of data. Without smart sensors and better developed data management

(including data quality algorithms) the amount of data grows overwhelming and remains unused.

Spatial data quality is considered to consist of several aspects, which may be categorised as data

completeness (amount of missing features), Data Precision (positional accuracy or degree of

details), Data accuracy (attribute accuracy) and Data Consistency (absence of conflicts of spatial

elements). Agricultural data often also has a temporal dimension, thus called spatiotemporal

data, consistency in time is also considered.

Spatio-temporal data is increasingly collected by remote or in-situ sensors rather than by field

campaigns. The wireless communications have several benefits, but also pose challenges to the

data exchange reliability and power supply. Sensor calibration and deployment as well as

maintenance of sensors need resources and technical skills and increase the costs of data

acquisition). Both increasing the amount of data and awareness of data quality issues highlight

importance that metadata are attached to sensor data.

Objectives

The OpenSensorNetwork is new initiative currently supported by more projects like SDI4Apps,

FOODIE, and FATIMA. The aim of the OpenSensorsNetwork pilot is to create an environment

where different groups of volunteers (farmers) will be able to integrate low cost sensors

(meteorological, quality of air, etc.) into local and regional web sensor networks. The pilot

application will integrate meteorological data and in-situ meteorological sensing networks based

on small stations collecting agro-meteorological data to support the crop production systems.

The OpenSensorNetwork defines a framework for taking advantage of intelligent sensor webs

based on the converging technologies of standard meteorological sensors, micro sensors,

computers, and wireless telecommunications with data management and analysis in support of

agriculture production activities, such as the chemical protection, grape and wine production,

fruit protection and production.

The knowledge gained from integrated sensors sensing has the potential to empower managers

and decision makers to act on crop and fruit production. The importance of meteorology

advisory and measures in agriculture has been increasing during the last decades due to the

emerging need to access appropriate information as a consequence of the rapid changes on

weather conditions. Although the quality of weather forecasting has improved constantly and

agriculture is benefiting from this achieved capability, in many European regions, the currently

available meteorological data are not sufficient for crop production, as much additional local

scale data is needed to be integrated into the specific agro-meteorological models and to take the

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To meet the farmers’ ambitions, especially in the areas where the land parcels are relatively

small and involving the growth of “expensive” cultivars (fruits), there is a need of establishing

networks of local sensors and meteorological stations. The ongoing significant advancements in

sensor technologies and in-situ sensing are expected to support also the development of more

systematic capabilities for assimilating all sorts of in-situ measurements in agro-meteorological

models, at relevant scales, to generate immediately (in real time) useful information for farmer’s

decision making. The data will also be available for the public sector. It will help not only the

farmers, but also protection services. Large monitoring networks will be built using

neogeography and VGI principles for sensors.

Tasks

The OpenSensorNet scenario will collect and monitor data from in-field sensors coming from

diferent owners and providers. The basic approach will be for web services to send various

sensors’ proprietary protocols to a common database that is accessible with open protocols. The

Scenario will be then extended to use the Future Internet tools to process/aggregate the data

directly from the sensors "on the fly" in real-time.

In all cases the end users will be able to monitor the ongoing situation using their PCs, tablets or

Smartphones.

There will be next steps supported by system:

Registration of sensors URI (every single sensor or WSN has to be registered) in

catalogue describing sensors, measurement parameters, time period, uri and protocol for

accessing data Discovery sensors in geographical context, time period and also in

parameters for measurement

Accessing data from different sensor through one interoperable protocol

This will be supported by set of pilot applications mainly based on FOODIE data models

and utilisation of Future Internet tools (IoT discovery). There will be used experience and

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ICT FOR A SUSTAINABLE AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY

STATUS AND MISSING

Walter H. MAYER CEO PROGIS / Treasurer of CoO

ABSTRACT

Keywords: Advisory services, integral solutions, location based services, environmental

services, ICT, location based circular flow management, stakeholder cooperation

Content: During the last decade, ICT solutions for the use within agriculture and forestry increased

worldwide, day by day new technologies show up like ICT, mobile solutions, precision farming,

drones, GIS, maps, ….. etc.

What is missing in many cases is the integration of (1) the different technologies and (2)

the existing know how of practice and sciences and (3) the better integration of scientific

findings as well as (4) education, training and capacity building for (5) private and/or public

advisory services, well educated, practical oriented and able to use these new technologies.(6) A

better stakeholder cooperation is a must too.

Further we know that farmers, small and big ones are part of environmental caretaking

and management of natural risks. In many cases managing their areas, they can influence them in

a positive or negative manner and also if we have in many countries private ownership we have a

social responsibility that has to be defined better. IT will help to plan, measure and control these

activities and compensate achievements above standard measures.

We also need with the help of new technologies better information regards location based

circular flow management – nature is based on it and we have step by step to understand these

methods better – that e.g. gives me detailed data about the soil and humus, about feed and it

chemical contents as well as detailed information about manure, chemical contents, pH etc.; only

detailed information about these linked elements – feed, manure, soil – will give us with the help

of IT all this information to optimize sustainable economic and ecologic targets.

Author Dipl.Ing. Walter H. MAYER

CEO PROGIS, Treasurer CoO

References [ http://www.ClubOfOssiach.org | http://www.PROGIS.com/ ]

Contact Dipl.Ing. Walter H. MAYER, Postgasse 6, A-9500 Villach/Austria

E-mail: [ mailto:[email protected] ], Skype: [ walter.h.mayer ]

Tel: +43/4242/26332

http://www.clubofossiach.org/

http://www.progis.com/






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THE POSSIBILITY OF USING UAS IN THE

ENVIROMENT

Jakub KARAS UPVISION

ABSTRACT

Keywords: UAS, RPAS, unmanned aerial vehicles, GIS, Remote sensing, orthophotomaps,

digital surface model, aerial mapping and monitoring

Content:

Recently in mapping and remote sensing eclipsed classical spatial data collection methods

(geodesy and photogrammetry), a new technology – UAS (unmanned aerial systems).

The difference is in itself better and more quickly accessibility the UAS into the air and more

flexible and cheaper scheduling aerial mapping or monitoring, due to single transportation up to

the observed position.

It is therefore possible to use them by sudden natural events immediately after their formation

and possibly mapped in detailed high resolution, which was not possible until today.

Presentation will show what are the possibilities of this technology and using UAVs for the

environment.

Author

Jakub KARAS

UPVISION

References

[ http://www.upvision.cz ]

Contact Jakub KARAS, Klikatá 18, Praha 5 – 158 00, Czech Republic

Mobile: +420 601 373 937

Email: [ jakub.karas (at) upvision.cz]

http://arnulf.us/Arnulf_Christl





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SUMMARY

[ http://www.UPVISION.cz ]

Unmanned aerial systems bring new opportunities how quickly and in detail, and actually

perform aerial mapping and monitoring.

Their main advantage is the flexibility of use, cost of services and much better availability than

the use of conventional manned systems (planes, helicopters).

Due to their size it can be anywhere transport by cars and mapping performed directly at the

particular location.

Simultaneously, in a more detailed view, given that the flying is at lower altitudes with

conventional cameras, it is possible create for smaller localities current orthophoto in image

resolution even below 1 cm / pixel!, which has not yet been possible otherwise.

Likewise, it can create a lot of other outputs on the principles of photogrammetry - digital

surface models, 3D models, volume calculations, mapping in other spectral - thermal imaging

mapping, multispectral mapping, LiDAR etc.

The use of UAV's is therefore highly suitable for agricultural use and nature protection, where a

lot of these outputs applied very well and they are needed most recent remote sensing data as

possible for the lowest price.

Among the major projects where the UAV's can take advantage is precision agriculture, where it

is possible for individual agricultural areas to create NDVI orthomosaics from them, to create

application maps for smart fertilizing by agricultural machines, depending on the structure of the

soil.

Figure1: NIR orthomosaic

Furthermore, it can very well use these funds for mapping the extent of the current crisis and

prevent into the future damage to the soil - floods, erosion, landslides, calamities – windbreaks in

forestry, bark beetle in forests etc.

Likewise for identification of drainage systems in soil under certain climatic conditions.

http://www.upvision.cz/





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Figure 2: Identification drainage systems by UAV

With using special sensors can be identify animals before intensive harvesting of agricultural

land with heavy machinery and prevent the death of animals or mapping the exact extent of

damage to farmland wild pigs for the eventual recovery of damages farmers.

Figure 3: Thermal identification animals in agricultural lands by UAV





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Applications are dozens of uses, including an inventory of stumps after mining in forests or

calculating volumes of timber at the dumps.

Figure 4: mapping special dumps for volume calculating of timber

Unmanned aerial vehicles are, under listed these several examples, very effective assistant in the

environmental field and is on us to these modern technologies were not afraid, but took

advantage of their best qualities for specific effective using in the environment.

REFERENCES





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COPERNICUS PROGRAMME AND SENTINEL DATA

FOR AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY

Lenka Hladíková CENIA, Czech Environmental Information Agency, Praha

ABSTRACT

Keywords: Copernicus, Sentinel satellites, remote sensing, services

Content: Copernicus (previously known as GMES) is the most important EU programme for monitoring of

environment and security from satellite data. It comprises from three main components – space

component (Sentinel satellites constructed dedicatedly for the programme and third party missions), in-

situ component (data from sensors on ground, sea etc.) and services (built upon the two previous

components in six thematic domains). The programme itself is coordinated by the European Commission

in close cooperation with European Space Agency and other entities for each component or service.

Agriculture and forestry are two important areas, which should highly benefit from satellite images –

meant in the way that information needed for these areas can be obtained in a more effective and

timesaving way for larger areas than in case of using only ground data collection.

Satellite images used to be rather expensive to obtain since the Landsat data were made accessible for

free. However, if we need images with different parameters, the best open and free sources are data from

the Copernicus Sentinel satellites. There are currently 6 satellites planned to be launched within the

Copernicus programme, each providing unique set of optical or radar images of different spatial and

spectral resolution. Each Sentinel will have two identical satellites (A and B units), ensuring very good

time resolution needed in the field of agriculture. The most important parameter of these data is the

sustainability, enabling regular monitoring of agriculture areas. In line with the open and free data policy

of the Copernicus programme, all data from Sentinel satellites will be provided free for all categories of

users. This principle results in cheaper applications created upon the satellite data and hopefully also in

their wider use among different areas.

Some products of the Copernicus services are directly determined for support of EU agricultural politics

mostly on the European and global level. However many other downstream services, build for the specific

user needs on national level, can be created upon the Sentinel data.

Author

Lenka HLADÍKOVÁ

References [http://www.copernicus.gov.cz/en]

[http://www.copernicus.eu]

[http://www.konference-copernicus.cz/en]

Contact Lenka HLADÍKOVÁ

CENIA, Czech Environmental Information Agency

Vršovická 1442/65, Praha 10, 100 10

mobile: +420 731 190 711

e-mail: [email protected]

http://www.copernicus.gov.cz/en

http://www.copernicus.eu/

http://www.konference-copernicus.cz/en/content/home






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SUMMARY

Introduction

Agriculture and forestry represent areas with high potential for utilization of remote sensing technologies.

With growing availability of satellite images, the remote sensing technologies are used more often than in

the past and especially in these fields they can bring significant savings. The Sentinel satellites, developed

in the frame of the European Copernicus programme, are in line with the programme policy provided for

free. In response to this fact, also services built upon these data can be substantially cheaper. This paper

summarizes the main advantages of utilization of remote sensing in the field of agriculture and forestry,

with special focus on the data and services from the Copernicus programme.

The Copernicus programme – an overview

Copernicus, the EU Earth Observation and Monitoring programme, provides timely and reliable

information to support decision making mainly in the field of environment and security. These

information – services – are delivered in six thematic domains: Land monitoring, Emergency

Management, Atmosphere, Marine, Security and Climate Change. The services are built upon satellite

images, delivered from the Sentinel satellites, which are constructed dedicatedly for the programme, and

other satellites, so-called third party missions. Images are complemented by the ground measurements

from the Copernicus in-situ component, which is also an important part of the programme.

Agriculture and forestry from satellite images

Agriculture and forestry can highly benefit from the remote sensing images and techniques. In the field of

agriculture, we are able to monitor some parameters important to farmers: crop identification and status,

soil moisture, health status or delineation of the field boundaries. In the case of forest monitoring, we can

similarly obtain information on forest types and structure, grow, damage after windstorm or forest fire,

identification of clear-cuts (Figure 1) or illegal logging. Therefore we can get information on large areas

in short time, on regular basis and in some cases also map phenomenon not visible to human eyes. In

conclusion, these information can help farmers to model crop prediction, use less fertilizers and maximize

the crop yields, resulting in the cost reduction and more environment-friendly farming.

Figure 1: Clear-cuts detection from the Landsat image, Source: Forest Management Institute, Czech Republic





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Remote sensing is an important tool for the so-called precision farming. Precision farming is a modern

approach of farming in a cost-effective and more environment friendly way. Information from the satellite

images, in combination with the global positioning system (GPS) allow to adapt some of the farming

operations to local conditions.

In general, there are two main groups of users, who may benefit from satellite data in this field.

Information on the local level, i.e. from satellites with high resolution or aerial images, better serves for

farmers themselves. On the other hand, data of regional or global scale bring information needed for

governments to control allocation of subsidies or support shaping of national and European agricultural

policies, or for national landscape protection agencies mapping the grassland or forest management.

Parameters of the satellite images required for agricultural applications vary according to the purpose –

for some activities images with very high resolution (meters) are crucial, on the other hand for the crop

yield estimation the medium spatial resolution together with the frequent revisit time are needed. Long-

term data series also allow for analysis of changes and trends in the health of the forests. In some cases,

the satellite images can reduce or replace large-scale field surveys.

Copernicus for agriculture and forestry

And what can the Copernicus programme bring to these issues? Firstly, it offers satellite data of various

parameters (radar or optical images, different spectral and spatial resolution), which will scan the Earth

with a frequent revisit time. There are already 5 Sentinel missions (see Table 1), each of them having 2

identical units (A and B, later C and D) to provide optimal spatial and temporal resolution of the images.

One of the main benefits of the Sentinel satellites is the sustainability due to the identical units, enabling

creation of longer time-series of the monitored parameter. To this time, first two satellites are in orbit,

already delivering the images. In some cases, data from Sentinel satellites can replace currently used

aerial images with very high spatial resolution, but acquired only once in several years and having

significantly lower spectral resolution.

Table 1: Main characteristics of the Sentinel satellites

Sentinel 1 Sentinel 2 Sentinel 3 Sentinel 4 Sentinel 5

characteristics radar mission

multispectral

high resolution

mission

4 sensors

(multispectral,

radar,

microwave) of

medium

resolution

multispectral

geostationary

mission for

atmosphere

monitoring

multispectral

polar orbit

mission for

atmosphere

monitoring

spatial

resolution 5 – 40 m 10, 20, 60 m 300 – 500 m 8 km 5 – 15 km

temporal*

resolution 6 days 5 days 27 days 60 min 29 days

launch date

(A/B unit)

April 2014 June 2015 November 2015 2018 2019

February 2016 March 2016 February 2017 2018 2027

* for 2-satellite constellation, source: https://sentinel.esa.int

On regional and global scale, also some of the Copernicus services can be useful – particularly the Land

Monitoring Service: Corine Land Cover database about land cover and its changes since 1990, High

Resolution Layers with forest types or tree cover density or near-real time biophysical variables such as

leaf area index (Figure 2), energy budget, water cycle etc., provided on regular basis.

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Figure 2: Leaf Area Index (LAI) derived from the satellite image (red – lowest LAI, blue – highest LAI). Source:

AQUAPATH-SOIL project.

To conclude, the Copernicus programme with its data and services has a great potential in the agriculture

domain; hopefully the number of its utilization in this field will grow steadily with more Copernicus

satellites and services becoming operational.

References:

Copernicus briefs – ESA:

http://www.copernicus.eu/sites/default/files/documents/Copernicus_Briefs/Copernicus_Brief_Issue35_Ag

ricultureMonitoring_Sep2013.pdf

http://www.copernicus.eu/sites/default/files/documents/Copernicus_Briefs/Copernicus_Brief_Issue14_Fo

restDamage_Sep2013.pdf

http://lms.seos-project.eu/learning_modules/agriculture

http://www.gisat.cz/content/cz/aplikace/zemedelstvi

http://www.copernicus.eu/sites/default/files/documents/Copernicus_Briefs/Copernicus_Brief_Issue35_AgricultureMonitoring_Sep2013.pdf


http://www.copernicus.eu/sites/default/files/documents/Copernicus_Briefs/Copernicus_Brief_Issue14_ForestDamage_Sep2013.pdf

http://www.copernicus.eu/sites/default/files/documents/Copernicus_Briefs/Copernicus_Brief_Issue14_ForestDamage_Sep2013.pdf

http://lms.seos-project.eu/learning_modules/agriculture

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THE ADDED VALUE OF COPERNICUS AND GALILEO

FOR GEO-INFORMATION AND LBS AT THE SERVICE

OF AGRICULTURE & FORESTRY IN THE REGIONS

Stefaan DE MEY & Grazia FIORE EURISY / Paris, France

ABSTRACT

Keywords: Copernicus, Galileo, EGNOS, GNSS, free open data, value adding chain, multi-disciplinary

Content:

European space flagship programmes. Europe invests in satellite infrastructure through two

major programmes, Galileo and Copernicus. The resulting applications are expected to bring growth,

jobs, and better quality of life for Europe's citizens. Galileo, Europe' own state-of-the-art Global

Navigation Satellite System (GNSS), provides accurate and guaranteed positioning for all types of

civilian applications. Copernicus, Europe's own Earth Observation system, provides free, full and open

access to a wealth of important environmental data from a variety of different sources, including satellite

imagery.

A global view for local actions: from open and free data to info that has a price. The use of

satellite-derived information is not any longer the privilege of global/national authorities. With more

sources of data, including from satellites, being more accessible to more people than ever before, the

understanding of places, spaces, and spatial phenomena is potentially better than ever. But making sense

of all this data is proportionally more complex for those whose job is not to analyse data, but to simply

make sense of a situation, sometimes in real time. More than ever, to become useful, data needs to be

turned into info. This requires a multidisciplinary approach involving the entire adding-value chain and

embracing a variety of applications such as Satnav-assisted farm management technologies, geographical

information systems, internet and IT technologies, space and terrestrial imaging and sensor technologies,

and expert knowledge on crop growth processes. This does not come for free.

How to get the information to the local users? Today, many initiatives to create (open) data

sharing platforms exist. New tools should rely on what is already there as much as possible and preferably

integrate in already existing platforms that are effectively and operationally used by public and private

entities. Those who work on such solutions not only have a role to play as facilitators of technology

transfer, but also as stakeholders’ brokers and federators.

Authors Grazia Fiore,

EURISY - Research and project coordinator

Stefaan De Mey EURISY - Secretary General

References [ http://www.eurisy.org ]

Contact Grazia Fiore, 94bis avenue de Suffren, 75015 Paris, France

EMail: [ Grazia.Fiore (at) eurisy.org ]

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SUMMARY

Satellite applications are already changing our economies and societies

More than a thousand active satellites - both government and private - are currently out of space. These

devices are providing us with data and signals which have become essential to ensure transport,

communication and global monitoring of environmental phenomena on Earth. Weather forecast is today

largely based on satellite data. Satellites are used to create digital maps showing soil composition and crop

health. They determine the rate of water evaporation in irrigated crops, allowing farmers to optimise the use

of time, water, nitrates and human resources. Earth observation is also used to measure carbon storage in

forests, to monitor the vegetation cover, and even to spot illegal forest cuts. Satellite navigation is employed

in large farms and forests to guide trucks through the fields, while satellite communication delivers reliable

broadband services to ensure communication and to manage water reservoirs, pumps and other equipments

in remote locations.

Galileo and Copernicus

Acknowledging the potential of satellite-based services to create jobs, foster economic development and

support a sustainable management of the environment and of natural and anthropogenic disasters, the

European Union has being investing large resources in the implementation of its own satellite systems. The

EU allocated around EUR 6.3 billion to Galileo, the European satellite navigation programme, and EUR 4.3

billion to the European Earth observation system GMES-Copernicus for the period 2014-2020. Moreover,

the European Space Agency alone is investing EUR 309.2 million, i.e. 7% of its budget for 2015 to

telecommunications and integrated applications, supporting the development of market-oriented space

services. Also the Horizon 2020 EU Research and Innovation programme dedicates EUR 1.73 billion to

space research and development.

Eurisy: working to prepare the European society to make the most of satellite applications by

showcasing examples of what is already available and operationally used

These investments aim at supporting the operational use of satellite-based data and signals to meet current

and future policy and societal needs. During the last 25 years, Eurisy, an association of over 30 governmental

space agencies and offices, has been working to prepare public and private users to fully grasp the potential

benefits of satellite-based applications. The association has been doing this by raising awareness on available

services based on satellites which can support the work of public and private managers in sectors ranging

from transport to environmental protection, tourism, agriculture, forestry, and water management, to quote

only a few of the fields in which satellite applications find a use. Eurisy does not merely communicate on

services which are available on the market, but invites private companies and public authorities (such as

ministries and city and regional administrations) to speak about their operational use of satellite technologies

in front of their peers. They explain what their initial needs were, how they got to use a satellite-based

service, which difficulties they encountered and how they solved them, how much it cost to adopt and use

these services and how they could be improved.

How can satellites help improving farming and forestry?

Agriculture has been one of the first sectors in which satellite-based data and signals have been consistently

showing their benefits. Weather data largely come from satellites, while “precision farming” has become

today one of the main themes among farmers and agriculture decision-makers.

Indeed, satellites improve the quality and quantity of the information available on water reserves, soil, crops,

weather and infrastructure, allowing public and private stakeholders to match water availability to water

demand, to precisely assess irrigation needs, to map and monitor cultivated fields and to advice farmers on

where and how to distribute water and fertilisers.

Geospatial technology, such as satellite imagery and GIS are also widely used by government and private

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Indeed, satellite images provide information on land cover, species, habitats, soil conditions, land uses, and

forest productivity, among others, which are essential to both protect and exploit forests. Satellite imagery

and GIS data proved to be effective tools to quantify deforestation and to monitor our forests. Moreover,

satellite imagery, navigation and communication consistently support fire and emergency personnel in case

of natural or anthropogenic disasters, when timely and accurate data are essential. In the event of a disaster,

like a fire, satellite imagery also helps forest managers to design and monitor restoration measures.

Examples of use of satellite applications to improve agriculture and forestry

Satellite imagery and navigation are more and more integrated into GIS which allow farmers to better

manage their crops. In the region of La Mancha Oriental, in Spain, the Central Irrigation Board (JCRMO),

the Júcar River Basin Authority, the regional Government and the University of Castilla La Mancha agreed

to use information derived from satellite imagery to map the spatial distribution of land covers and build a

Geographic Information System. Since 2010, the JCRMO has been using time series of satellite images (12-

14 images per year) provided by the EU GMES-funded project SIRIUS (http://sirius-gmes.es/), to map and

estimate irrigation water needs of cultivated plots according to precipitations, atmospheric demand and

irrigation methods. Satellite information is used to assign water abstraction rights to farmers, according to

crops and field’s extension, and to monitor the enforcement of the Exploitation Plan of the Aquifer.

Enforcement of the AEP is in fact essential to ensure sustainability. Moreover, a web-GIS provides farmers

with routine reports on irrigation needs. Thanks to these results, historical water rights were assigned on 95%

of the territory, discouraging new non-authorised cultivations and allowing a recovery of groundwater levels

in the last three humid years. The classification process to identify irrigated areas based on satellite imagery

has been recognised as evidence by the Spanish Supreme Court in 2012.

Combined with in situ observations, satellite imagery also permits to acquire data on evapotranspiration and

soil moisture, which is useful to provide farmers with timely advice on the irrigation needs of each cultivated

parcel. The use case of the Campania Region, in Italy, shows that this information can be sent directly to

the mobile phones of the farmers subscribed to this free service. Indeed, through “IrriSat”

(www.consulenzairrigua.it), the Agriculture Department of the Campania Region provides customised

irrigation information, based on high spatial resolution satellite data (10-20 m), on the actual irrigation needs

of each plot managed by the farmers. This information, delivered every 7-10 days, indicates to farmers how

much irrigation water to use, without compromising yield. In addition, farmers get a map of the development

of the crop, indicating non-uniform growth due to irregularities in agronomic inputs (not only water, but also

fertilisers) and soil heterogeneity. The service is available to farmers and other water managers at all levels,

who can subscribe for free, and receive the information through text messages, MMS or on the web. In

addition to providing the service, the Agriculture Department accompanies the programme with particular

communication efforts to get an ever bigger number of farmers to subscribe, including through TV ad

campaigns.

In the case of the Directorate for Territories of the Deux-Sèvres County, in France, satellite imagery is

combined with in-situ measurements to reduce the amount of fertilisers spread over cultivated fields. The

Directorate started using satellite-derived maps to detect whether parcels are covered with catch crops, in

cooperation with the Earth Observation and Geoinformation for Land and Environment laboratory (TETIS)

of the National Research Institute of Science and Technology for Environment and Agriculture (IRSTEA),

and GEOSUD (GeoInformation for Sustainable Development, http://geosud.teledetection.fr/) – a French

database of satellite data, free for public authorities. These data enable to better spot the areas with no cover

and to prioritise site inspections. Thanks to satellite information, the Directorate is able, for the first time in

France, to build priority maps focusing on areas most affected by nitrates pollution risk, thus optimising field

inspections and saving time.

Satellite navigation also represents a precious tool to accurately map thermal field measurements made in

situ or through airplanes or airborne platforms, a method successfully implemented in Israel by the Volcani

Centre, and it can even be employed to automatically guide irrigation machinery.

http://sirius-gmes.es/

http://www.consulenzairrigua.it/

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An innovative example of a use of satellite applications for fire detection and response is the FireHub service

(http://195.251.203.94/seviri/), developed by the National Observatory of Athens (NOA) within the

BEYOND initiative, aiming at building a centre of excellence for Earth observation-based monitoring of

natural disasters in South-Eastern Europe. FireHub is a fire early-warning service which relies on

meteorological information, Earth observation data and other geospatial information.

The General Directorate for the Development and Protection of Forests and Rural Environment of the

Greek Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change uses this service to monitor fire extent in real

time (fire monitoring data are produced every five minutes) and to forecast the smoke dispersion 15 minutes

ahead. Through a dedicated web-GIS application, the service also provides information on fires that occurred

in Greece during the last 30 years and generates burnt scar maps during and after wildfires. Moreover,

FireHub maps burnt areas for damage and deforestation assessment. The maps are used by the DG to

implement relief activities, to estimate carbon balance, monitor fire and soil erosion risk, and to plan urban

developments.

The basic FireHub, free of charge, is particularly useful in case of fires originating outside Greek borders.

Recently, a fire that started in Albania close to the Greek border was not officially notified to Greek

authorities. The accident was instead detected via FireHub, allowing the Fire Brigades to intervene even

before the fire entered the Greek territory. The DG is currently working with the FireHub team to enhance

the service, to hasten the damage assessment process and to identify reforestation areas within two months

after the end of the fire season, in line with Greek legislation.

These examples highlight the current and potential contributions of satellite applications to better manage

agriculture and forestry. Moreover, they illustrate how satellite-based services can support public managers

to comply with national and European policies and legislation, such as the Common Agricultural Policy

(CAP), the Water Framework Directive, the Nitrates Directive and the Soil Thematic Strategy, among others.

Which data are currently available? (Copernicus and Galileo)

The first pillar of Europe's navigation programme, the European Geostationary Navigation Overlay Service

(EGNOS), enhancing GPS signals, is operational since 2009. It sharpens the accuracy of GPS signals across

Europe to make it usable for e.g. goods tracking and precision farming.

Europe is currently deploying the Galileo satellite navigation system. In 2012 Galileo had four operational

satellites in orbit for the in-orbit validation, providing already early services with reduced performance from

mid 2014. Full operational capability with about 30 satellites in orbit is expected by 2019/2020.

The Copernicus services are also progressively reaching their operational phase. The Land Monitoring

Services (http://land.copernicus.eu/), operational since 2012, provide geographical information on land cover

and on variables related, for instance, to the vegetation state or the water cycle. They support applications in

a variety of domains, such as spatial planning, forest management, water management, agriculture and food

security, etc.

The Copernicus services represent a unique opportunity to develop more accurate and reliable applications

for agriculture and forestry. A closer cooperation between data providers, machine makers and farmers is

necessary to integrate all these technologies into easy-to-use tools for farmers. This process of mutual

collaboration will be a step of outmost importance to prepare both users and service providers to make the

most of the information provided by EGNOS, Galileo and Copernicus once these programmes will have

reached their full operational stage.

http://195.251.203.94/seviri/

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CClluubb ooff OOssssiiaacchh NETWORKING WORKSHOPS


Edited by CCSS-Praha & IGN-Dresden & PROGIS-Villach Doz. Dr. Frank HOFFMANN, CSc – IGN

Dipl.Ing. Walter H. MAYER - PROGIS (Villach) Dr. Karel CHARVAT – CCSS (Praha)

IMPRIMATUR TO PRINT

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THE CLUB OF OSSIACH

THE BRIDGE FOR ICT IN AGRICULTURE & FORESTRY

BETWEEN DEVELOPED AND DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

WALTER H. MAYER & KAREL CHARVAT

PROGIS, VILLACH (AT) & CCSS, PRAHA (CZ)

ABSTRACT

The “Club of Ossiach”, a group of agriculturists, agribusiness managers, agriculture

technologists and agricultural ICT specialists from around the world, met at Ossiach between 17-

19 June 2013 at the “AgriFuture Days” Conference. They reviewed current trends and possible

discontinuities resulting from political, social, environmental and technological changes,

potentially impacting on the future of agriculture, farming, rural viability, food and nutrition

worldwide.

This Presentation describes:

The Recognition of the “OISSACH” Club

The Focus on ICT and Keypoints of its Adoption in Agriculture

The Technologies recognized by the “OISSACH” Club

The Priorities of ICT Adoption for Future Agriculture Communities

The Business Model

The Charter Members

Authors

Ajit MARU Chair of the Club of Ossiach (CoO)

Dipl.-Ing. Walter H. MAYER CEO of ROGIS GmbH, Villach (AT)

Dr. Karel CHARVAT EU Project Manager of HSRS, Benesov (CZ)

Contact Club of Ossiach”, Postgasse 6,

A-9500 Villach

Email [ [email protected] | [email protected] ]







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SUMMARY

THE OSSIACH – DECLARATION ON THE UPTAKE OF ICT FOR AGRICULTURE, FORESTRY, RURAL VIABILITY AND

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Dipl.Ing. Walter H. MAYER

CEO of PROGIS GmbH, Italienerstr. 3, A-9500 VILLACH

The “Club of Ossiach”, a group of agriculturists, agribusiness managers, agriculture technologists and

agricultural ICT specialists from around the world, met at Ossiach between 17-19 June 2013 at the

“AgriFuture Days” Conference. They reviewed current trends and possible discontinuities resulting from

political, social, environmental and technological changes, potentially impacting on the future of

agriculture, farming, rural viability, food and nutrition worldwide.

1. The Club of Ossiach recognized that:

Almost a third of the world’s population is vulnerable to poverty and malnutrition, respectively is

marginal in its current food and nutritional security, has concerns of its food safety and reliability of

its supply.

The resource poor small holder farmers of the world are the poorest and the bottom of the heap of the

hungry.

The world today faces severe environmental changes and damages. In addition it cannot continue to

exploit natural resources in the current unsustainable manner.

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs), nanotechnology, biotechnology, materials

and space technology among many other technological innovations, individually and jointly, are

essentially unsynchronized. This negatively influences human progress and development including

agriculture, food security and rural viability. We have to create a bio-based economy (accepting the

sustainability rules of nature) transforming industry, business and services.

The potential to feed the world, to use natural resources and safeguard the environment depends on

judicious change and use of technology.

However, the poorest of the world not only suffer the most but may miss from benefitting from this

economic and technological transformation.

2. The Club of Ossiach focus on ICTs identified the following key points in adoption of ICT in

agriculture

• Agricultural contribution to rural communities is not limited to agrotechnology and production

efficiencies. To a large extent it is the result of ICT innovations and their implementation.

• ICT adoption for agriculture impacts on rural community sustainability and an unlimited variety of

roducts, economic benefits, technical improvements and social enhancement. ICT will be most

effective as an incentive and agent of change when used at points of stakeholder cooperation.

Stakeholders can be expected to be a major motivating factor for adopting ICT supported agricultural

production and rural sustainability.

• Stakeholders participation in ICT development and implementation of innovative initiatives must

include farmers, extension, scientists, agricultural and social services, students, rural residents and

sector supporting entities. This “Bottom-Up” inclusion complements the now conventional “Top-

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3. The Club of Ossiach, recognized that these technologies:

Create promising choices including the change of the nature of information. This will make it easier

to distribute, share and utilize data, information and knowledge.

Contribute to implementation of opportunities, addressing discontinuities and new options;

Are most effectual as a means of change when effectively integrated at the points of collaboration

between the various stakeholders. They enhance development by introducing new elements of

flexibility in production, development of innovations and facilitating their implementation.

Dictate caution and care in access and use of ICT supported knowledge especially during

introductory stages. The knowledge must be focused on people, sustainability, equity, welfare and

“happiness”. “Sustainability” in this context must be understood as furthering economical

development, lifelong learning, social justice and environmental integrity.

ICT produces ruptures through creative technological breakthroughs: from “constructive destruction

to destructive construction”. It enables the transformation of concurrent practices driven by tradition,

ulterior external interests and obsolete technologies. ICT can support individuals in motivating,

integrating and sustaining change in communities. With this understanding ICT will contribute to

create choices and processes of change especially through partnerships and co-leadership.

The Club of Ossiach recognized further that by creative cooperation sustainable and responsible

agriculture can be attained. This will demonstrate the feasibility of future evolution of Earth’s

ecosystems. They will enhance health and well-being globally inaddition to attaining more effective

distribution of the food produced and minimizing food waste.

The Club of Ossiach considered it as a responsibility to pursue technological change within

agriculture.

4. Recommended/expected ICT Adoption priorities and their potential benefits for

future agricultural communities:

• Innovation adoption

• Know-how transfer

• Technology integration

• New business models

• Stimulating innovations – technical, environmental, social and more.....

• Cooperation at the various production and social levels

• Universal benefit for all chain members

• Support a “European Innovation Partnership (EIP): Agricultural Productivity and

• Sustainability” initiative.

The Club of Ossiach will meet regularly, to jointly consider the future of agriculture, farming, food and

nutrition and rural viability. The meetings will include documenting the process, its progress and regular

publication of its findings.

5. A possible business-model

A new business model for a country-wide Agro-ICT-adoption was introduced and reviewed at the

conference. The model was titled an “Agro-ICT-Infrastructure concept”. It is designed to be initiated by

the government or a public-private consortium within a country. It will collate and integrate basic data

like ortho-images, agro-meteorological data and ICT-technologies accessible to the country’s agro-

community. This community will include farmers, smallholders, their suppliers, customers, advisors,

supporting science, education bodies and other public authorities. They all represent the food-, feed-,

biomass- or log-production chain and are linked together with applications supporting their information

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The Club of Ossiach - Charter Members

Robin Bourgeois Senior Foresight and Development Policies Expert, Secretariat

of the Global Forum on Agricultural Research (GFAR c/o FAO- #RD),Italy;

Ajit Maru Senior Officer, Secretariat of the Global Forum on Agricultural

Research (GFAR c/o FAO) Italy,

Karel Charvat, Project Manager of Help Service Remote Sensing s.r.o.,

WirelessInfo Czech Centre for Science and Society, Czech Republic and CEO

of Baltic Open Solution Centre Latvia and former EFITA president;

Ehud Gelb Samuel Neaman Institute for National Policy Research,Hebrew

University, Center for Agricultural Economic Research, Israel;

Dieter Ott, Bundesverband der Deutschen Maschinenringe (BMR), Germany;

Markus F. Hofreither, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences,

Institute for Sustainable Economic Development, Austria;

Kyandoghere Kyamakya,Smart System Technologies-Transportation Informatics,

Alpen Adria University, Austria;

Alphons Claessens, NIT Holding – Limited, Netherland;

Alfred Pitterle, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences Institute of

Silviculture and CEO of ForCert GmbH, Vienna, Austria;

Walter Mayer, Chief Executive Officer, PROGIS Software GmbH, Villach, Austria

For more information and comments please contact

[email protected]

“Club of Ossiach”, Postgasse 6, A-9500 Villach

[email protected]






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CoO & GFAR Workshops in DRESDEN on ICTs for

Sustainable Agriculture and Forestry

Walter MAYER

ProGIS Software GmbH

Introduction The use of ICTs in agriculture to improve productivity (with sustainability) has evidently lagged

substantially than it other spheres of economy and everyday life. The development of ICTs in agriculture

are at the moment largely for use in very large farms in economically developed countries though they

would benefit equally if not more in small farms which are resource poor in developing countries. ICTs

for SMART/Precision agriculture are not scale neutral for all farming.

They face problems in:

• Availability and Accessibility

• Affordability and Applicability

• Relevance and Usefulness

• Timeliness and Trustworthiness

• Appropriation by Individual and/or Communities

• Making Effective Use of Information

Developed and developing countries need to innovate, adapt and adopt ICTs to improve productivity of

their small farmers but do not have the capacities to do so. Neither is there investment to research and

develop appropriate ICTs for small farmers.

The institutions that are needed to support the use of ICTs in agriculture, for example, for more open

access to data and information, are still not developed. FOODIE – Farm Oriented Open Data in Europe

from the 7th Framework Program of the European Union with the target to get better access to data might

be one step ahead:

to get better access to open data but also as data alone is not all,

to get better integration into stakeholder´s cooperation and

to support public AND private interests

We know very little of how actors, especially farmers, and stakeholders like consumers are being

inclusively engaged to bring about effective management and use of ICTs in agriculture.

Club of Ossiach, NGO, located at: Postgasse No 6, 9500 Villach, AUSTRIA

Tel. +43 (0) 4242-26332, Fax +43-(0)4242-263327, email: [email protected],

Internet:http://www.clubofossiach.com

Registered at 9500 Villach, Austria





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The Workshop Process In this Workshop, through two stages, we are trying to answer two sets of questions around:

(1) HOW CAN WE IMPROVE THE USE OF ICTS TO START CONTRIBUTING TODAY AND IN NEAR

FUTURE (5-10 YEARS) TO IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY OF FARMS IN A SUSTAINABLE WAY?

What are the current technology drivers in using ICTs for sustainable agriculture?

Examples of technology drivers:

1. Ubiquitous availability of cellular connectivity

2. Reduced cost of cell phones, sensors, connectivity

What are the current technology barriers in using ICTs for sustainable agriculture?

Examples of technology barriers:

1. Rural coverage of connectivity patchy

2. Standardized, interoperable, applicable content not available

What are the current business and market drivers in using ICTs for sustainable agriculture?

Examples of business and market drivers:

1. Consumer demand for agricultural commodities to be sustainably developed

2. Need to improve efficiency and wastage for competing in markets

What are the current business and market barriers in using ICTs for sustainable agriculture?

Examples of business and market barriers:

1. Little evidence yet of profitable return on investment for use of ICTs in agriculture

2. Lack of Institutional support such as in copyright/intellectual property rights

How can we create opportunities now to effectively use these drivers and overcome barriers to

improve use of ICTs to improve productivity of farms in a sustainable way?

Examples of creation of opportunities:

1. Legislation and executive action for opening data and information from public sector organizations

2. Public sector investment in rural telecommunication and physical infrastructure

(2) HOW DO WE PREPARE TODAY SO THAT AFTER 10 YEARS FROM NOW WE CAN USE ICT's

MORE EFFECTIVELY, WHERE IT IS NEEDED MOST, FOR SMALLHOLDER FARMING?

What will be the future Technology Drivers in using ICTs for sustainable agriculture?

What will be the future Technology Barriers in using ICTs for sustainable agriculture?

What will be the future business and market drivers in using ICTs for sustainable agriculture?

What will be the future business and market barriers in using ICTs for sustainable agriculture?

How can we now create opportunities so that we can effectively use these drivers and overcome

barriers to improve use of ICTs 10 years from now to improve productivity of farms in a

sustainable way?









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Workshop 1: ENABLING INNOVATIONS FOR INFORMING FARMERS The participants will be divided into groups (or subgroups) if needed.

1st Session:

A. Sub-Groups on Current Technology, Business and Market Drivers and Barriers

Discussants

Provide through discussion in each group, a prioritized list of 3 current drivers and

barriers in using ICTs for sustainable agriculture each for:

1. Technology

2. Business and Markets

B. Sub-Groups on Future Technology, Business and Market Drivers and Barriers

Discussants

Provide in each sub-group, a prioritized list of 3 possible future drivers and barriers in

using ICTs for sustainable agriculture each for:

1. Technology


C. Both Groups: Presentation of each sub-group lists of drivers and barriers

2nd Session:


Discussants

List 3 suggestions each for how we can create opportunities now to (1) Effectively use

these drivers and (2) overcome barriers to improve use of ICTs to improve productivity

of farms in a sustainable way?


Discussants

List 3 suggestions for how can we now create opportunities now so that we can (1)

effectively use these drivers and (2) overcome barriers to improve use of ICTs 10 years

from now to improve productivity of farms in a sustainable way?

C. Both Group Plenary: Presentation of sub-group lists opportunities









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CoO / GFIA: DRESDEN - Workshop 1 on ICTs for Sustainable

Agriculture - ANSWERS

Workshop 1: ENABLING INNOVATIONS - INFORMING FARMERS

Group: Current Issues / Future Issues

Sub-Group:________________________________________________

Facilitateur: Ajit Maru / Walter H. Mayer

Chair:______________________________________

Rapporteur: ___________________________________

List of Drivers:

1.

2.

3.

Notes:

List of Barriers:

1.

2.

3.

Notes:

List of Opportunities:

1.

2.

3.

Notes:









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Workshop 2: ADVISORY SERVICES The participants will be divided into groups (subgroups) if needed.

1st Session:


Discussants

Provide through discussion in each sub-group, a prioritized list of 3 current drivers and

barriers in using ICTs for Advisory Services each for:

1. Technology



Discussants

Provide in each sub-group, a prioritized list of 3 possible future drivers and barriers in

using ICTs for Advisory Services each for:

1. Technology


C. Both Groups Plenary: Presentation of each sub-groups lists of drivers and barriers

2st Session:


Discussants

List 3 suggestions each for how we can create opportunities now to 1. Effectively use

these drivers and 2. Overcome barriers to improve use of ICTs to improve Advisory

Services?


Discussants

List 3 suggestions for how can we now create opportunities now so that we can 1.

Effectively use these drivers and 2. Overcome barriers to use of ICTs 10 years from

now to improve Advisory Services?

C. Both Group Plenary: Presentation of each sub-groups lists of drivers and barriers









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CoO / GFAR: DRESDEN - Workshop 2 on ICTs for

Sustainable Agriculture - ANSWERS

Workshop 2 on: ADVISORY SERVICES

Group: Current Issues / Future Issues

Sub-group:_________________________________________________

Facilitateur: Ajit Maru / Walter H. Mayer

Chair:______________________________________

Rapporteur: ___________________________________

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WEB INFORMATION

Open Data Strategie for Saxony

Die Verpflichtung zur maschinenlesbaren Bereitstellung und der Veröffentlichung von Metadaten gilt

unter drei Bedingungen:

1. Die Daten müssen in öffentlich zugänglichen Netzen verfügbar sein.

2. Die Daten müssen nach dem 1. September 2014 für die Öffentlichkeit bereitgestellt worden sein

oder in der Verwaltung bereits veröffentlichungsfähig in maschinenlesbarer Form vorliegen.

3. Für die Daten ist ein Nutzungsinteresse zu erwarten.

Zur Umsetzung der sich aus § 8 SächsEGovG ergebenden Pflichten wird vorgeschlagen, wie folgt

vorzugehen.

Inventarisierung von Daten

Es wird jeder Behörde empfohlen, zunächst ein Inventar anzulegen und die folgenden Prüfschritte

durchzuführen:

1. Welche Daten werden bereits in den von der Behörde verantworteten Online-Angeboten

bereitgestellt?

Für ein systematisches Vorgehen ist es sinnvoll, ein Inventar der entsprechenden Daten

anzulegen, das die Bezeichnung der Daten und die URL enthält. Die folgenden Prüfschritte sind

für jeden gefundenen Datensatz durchzuführen, die entsprechenden Prüfergebnisse können im

Inventar festgehalten werden.

2. Liegen die Daten bereits maschinenlesbar vor? Liegen die Daten der Verwaltung bereits maschinenlesbar vor (dies ist dann der Fall, wenn die

Verwaltung des Freistaates Sachsen oder durch diese Beauftragte, die Daten selbst durch

Software automatisiert auslesen und verarbeiten können), so ist zu prüfen, ob sie auch über

öffentliche Netze für die Nutzung Dritter zur Verfügung gestellt werden, in Zukunft auch im Netz

maschinenlesbar angeboten und nach Möglichkeit mit Metadaten zu versehen sind. Da die

Maschinenlesbarkeit bereits vorliegt und damit der weitere Aufwand für die Bereitstellung zu

vernachlässigen ist, sind keine besonderen Ansprüche an das erwartbare Nutzungsinteresse zu

stellen; ein solches wird regelmäßig vorliegen.

Liegen die Daten noch nicht maschinenlesbar vor und wurden in anderer Form bereits vor dem 1.

September 2014 öffentlich bereitgestellt, so entstehen keine Verpflichtungen.

3. Wird für Daten, die noch nicht maschinenlesbar vorliegen und die nach dem 1. September

2014 (erstmals oder verändert) ins Netz gestellt werden, ein Nutzungsinteresse erwartet? Werden noch nicht maschinenlesbar vorliegende Daten öffentlich nach dem 1. September 2014

bereitgestellt, so müssen diese nur dann (auch) in maschinenlesbarer Form verfügbar gemacht

werden, wenn ein Nutzungsinteresse zu erwarten ist.

Ein Nutzungsinteresse liegt nach § 8 SächsEGovG insbesondere vor, wenn jemand

die Daten nicht nur gebrauchen will, um eine öffentliche Aufgabe zu erfüllen oder

sich die Daten nicht intellektuell lediglich aneignet, um das dadurch erlangte Wissen zu

verwerten, sondern mehr damit vorhat (Weiterverwendung).





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Zur Abschätzung des Nutzungsinteresses können als Indikatoren entsprechende Anfragen oder

bereits bestehende Anwendungen, die entsprechende Daten verwenden, herangezogen werden.

Die EU Kommission hat Leitlinien für empfohlene Standardlizenzen, Datensätze und Gebühren

für die Weiterverwendung von Dokumenten herausgegeben.

Danach sind folgende Datenkategorien in der EU am stärksten nachgefragt:

Von der EU-Kommision für die Freigabe als offene Daten empfohlene Datenkategorien

Datenkategorien Beispielsdatensätze

Geodaten Postleitzahlen, nationale und lokale Karten (Kataster, topographische

Karten, Meereskarten, Verwaltungskarten usw.)

Erdbeobachtung und

Umwelt

Weltraum- und In-situ-Daten (Überwachung von Luft-, Boden- und

Wasserqualität, Energieverbrauch, Emissionen usw.)

Verkehrs-Daten Fahrpläne öffentlicher Verkehrsmittel (alle Verkehrsträger) auf nationaler,

regionaler und lokaler Ebene, Straßenarbeiten, Verkehrsinformationen usw.)

Statistik Nationale, regionale und lokale statistische Daten mit den wichtigsten

demographischen und ökonomischen Indikatoren (BIP, Alter, Gesundheit,

Beschäftigung, Einkommen, Bildung usw.)

Unternehmen Unternehmen und Unternehmensregister (Listen eingetragener Unternehmen,

Daten zu Eigentumsverhältnissen und Management,

Registrierungskennungen, Bilanzen usw.)

Ist ein Nutzungsinteresse für die Daten zu erwarten, so besteht die Pflicht, diese Datensätze mit

Metadaten zu versehen und maschinenlesbar anzubieten. Ist das Nutzungsinteresse derzeit nicht

erkennbar, so wird empfohlen, entsprechende Feedback-Möglichkeiten vorzusehen.

Bereitstellung von Daten

Sollen Daten bereitgestellt werden, so sind weitere Fragen zu klären. Im Anhang zu

diesem Handlungsleitfaden sind weitere Prüfschritte und Bewertungskriterien zur

Frage der Datenbereitstellung enthalten.

Prüfschritte und Bewertungskriterien zur Frage der Datenbereitstellung [*.pdf, 0,13 MB]

SOURCE: http://www.opendata.sachsen.de/655.htm

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52014XC0724%2801%29

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:52014XC0724%2801%29

http://www.opendata.sachsen.de/download/Paragraph8_Pruefschritte_Datenbereitstellung.pdf

http://www.opendata.sachsen.de/download/Paragraph8_Pruefschritte_Datenbereitstellung.pdf

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WEB INFORMATION

Open Data Support

Open Data Support wird von der Europäischen Kommission finanziert, gemäß SMART 2012/0107 ‘Lot 2:

Provision of services for the Publication, Access and Reuse of Open Public Data across the European Union, through existing open data portals’

(Vertrag No. 30-CE-0530965/00-17)

(© Europäische Kommission)

Die Abteilung Kommunikationsnetze, Inhalte und Technologien der Europäischen Kommission unterstützt mit dem Projekt »Open Data Support« die Verbreitung von offenen Verwaltungsdaten über Open Data Portale. Öffentlich Stellen, die Daten bereitstellen wollen, finden hier Hilfe. Neben Beratung und eigenen Dienstleistungen beim Publizieren von Metadaten ist ein Schwerpunkt des Projekts die Qualifikation der Bereitsteller in den Verwaltungseinrichtungen.

Hier finden Sie Schulungsunterlagen, die Sie dank offener Lizenzen auch weiterverwenden können.

Open Data Support: Wie können wir Ihnen helfen (17 Abb.)

1.1 Die 'PSI' Richtlinie und offene Regierungsdaten (46 Abb.)

1.2 Einführung in Linked Data (50 Abb.)

1.3 Einführung in RDF & SPARQL (43 Abb.)

1.4 Einführung in das Metadata Management (42 Abb.)

1.5 Förderung der Wiederverwendung von offenen Regierungsdaten durch die Open Data Interoperability Platform (ODIP) (52 Abb.)

2.1 Der Lebenszyklus von Linked Offenen Regierungsdaten (61 Abb.)

2.2 Einführung in offene Daten Qualität (37 Abb.)

2.3 Das Entwerfen und die Verwaltung von persistenten URIs (30 Abb.)

2.4 Das Entwerfen und die Entwicklung von Vokabularen in RDF (30 Abb.)

2.5 Lizenzen für Daten und Metadaten (46 Abb.)

Zielgruppen der Module (Tabelle)

SOURCES:

https://joinup.ec.europa.eu/node/103388

http://www.opendata.sachsen.de/open_data_support.html

http://de.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/ods-service-description

http://www.opendatasupport.eu/


http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/ods-service-description

http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/d2-1-1-training-module-1-1-open-government-data-and-the-psi-directive-v0-2-de

http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/d211-training-module-12-introduction-to-linked-data-v04-de

http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/d211-training-module-13-introduction-to-rdf-sparql-v03-de

http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/einfhrung-in-metadatenverwaltung

http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/frderung-der-wiederverwendung-von-offenen-regierungsdaten-durch-die-open-data-interoperability-platform-odip

http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/frderung-der-wiederverwendung-von-offenen-regierungsdaten-durch-die-open-data-interoperability-platform-odip

http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/der-lebenszyklus-von-linked-offenen-regierungsdaten

http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/d211-training-module-22-open-data-quality-v02-de

http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/das-entwerfen-und-die-verwaltung-von-persistenten-uris

http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/das-entwerfen-und-die-entwicklung-von-vokabularen-in-rdf

http://www.slideshare.net/OpenDataSupport/d211-training-module-25-data-and-metadata-licensing-v02-de




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USDA HACKATHON INFORMATION

Using Open Data in Creative Ways to Solve Problems

Want to make better use of forest, park and trail datasets? Try a hackathon. A hackathon is an event in which computer programmers and others involved in software development and hardware development, including graphic designers, interface designers and project managers, collaborate intensively on software projects. Hackathons typically last between a day and a week. Some hackathons are intended simply for educational or social purposes, although in many cases the goal is to create usable software. This popular forum for collaborative innovation has become an important method for developing modern solutions for government interactions. This particular hackathon occurred on April 11-12 in Washington, D.C., and involved the USDA and the Department of Interior (DOI) for the myAmerica Developers Summit. The summit is an initiative supporting the National Travel and Tourism Strategy by improving access to information about federal lands and waters so it’s easier for people to discover and experience America’s natural and national treasures.

The objective of the myAmerica Developer Summit is to develop technological products, services and other resources that promote and protect America’s public lands and waters. myAmerica reached out to federal agencies, private industry, academics, entrepreneurs, and others to develop trip-planning tools, enhance current online resources and cultivate methods for sharing data more easily; all in the name of improving access to America’s federal lands. The Tourism Policy Council working group sponsored myAmerica and continues to support and help drive this effort.

This event brought together approximately 100 technologists, developers, outdoor enthusiasts, government, academia and industry to build products that enhance our appreciation, utilization and protection of our federal lands and waters. Hosting this hackathon is part of USDA and DOI’s commitment to providing open data and collaboration with the digital entrepreneurs of today. This was a tremendous opportunity to expand the availability of open data and to demonstrate our willingness to work with private industry to innovate.

This data has been available to the public for over a decade, and now it is easier to access using publicly available data and Application Programming Interfaces, known as APIs. APIs are how modern Internet software and apps talk to each other. Offering an API also aligns with the Executive Order to make government data open and machine readable, as well as the U.S. Digital Services Playbook.

Over the course of the weekend, government and others collaborated and found and demonstrated 11 innovative solutions using open data that will help make public lands more accessible for people to enjoy. USDA looks forward to participating in more hackathons and would encourage sending in your suggestions on the types of data (i.e. food safety, food nutrition, local impacts of USDA grants, etc.) you feel would be beneficial to the American public. Please contact us at [email protected].

Related Posts

It’s County Fair Time at the USDA Farmers Market at Night

USDA Participated in a “First of Its Kind” Camp for DC-Area Teens Focused Specifically on Open Data and Agriculture

Tackling Rural Child Poverty In Southwest Georgia

Tags: #OpenData, API, Data, Department of Interior, hackathon, Joyce Hunter, ModernUSDA, Open Data, Washington DC

SOURCE:

Posted © by Joyce Hunter, Acting CIO, Deputy CIO for Policy and Planning, on May 28, 2015 at 3:00 PM

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http://blogs.usda.gov/tag/modernusda/

http://blogs.usda.gov/tag/open-data/

http://blogs.usda.gov/tag/washington-dc/

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WEB INFORMATION

Internet of Farm Things

Companies are competing to turn data into advice on how to farm better, and attracting investments from the likes of Google Ventures and Monsanto.

(c) by Nanette Byrnes on May 21, 2015

Keith Larrabee’s farm sits on 4,000 acres of California’s Sacramento Valley, between a coastal range of mountains to the west and the tall Sierra Nevadas to the east. It’s an area that traditionally gets much more rain than most of the drought-stricken state. Even so, Larrabee is always worried about the cost and availability of water for his orchards of walnuts and pecans and his 3,000 acres of rice.

Two years ago he began inserting probes five feet deep into the soil of his nut orchards to measure the water concentration foot by foot.

When Larrabee began using such sensors, he had to walk into the fields to read each one individually—a process so laborious that he sometimes did it just once a week. But now, every 15 minutes, readings from the 25 sensors are fed into a network of solar-powered information-gathering stations scattered through the orchard. One of the stations transmits that information to a main database via cell signal. Larrabee uses his smartphone or tablet to log on to see that data, which is available almost instantaneously. Using a software platform called PTC ThingWorx, he sees two color-coded gauges for each sensor—blue means too much water in a given location, red not enough. Combined with data from weather stations around the property, the information helps Larrabee decide when to irrigate, where to do so, and how much water to use, either to maximize growth or to avoid frost. “Everything we do, every time I turn a pump on, everything costs money,” he says. “If I can manage my irrigation to exactly what I need, I’m not running the risk of overdoing it. I’m managing the health of the orchard better. I would equate that to a longer life of that orchard, to better crops, better-quality products.”

Also: more revenue and more profit.

On Tuesday, Farmers Business Network, a San Francisco company that sells advice to farmers based on data from the farm and public information like weather patterns, became the latest startup in this field to draw notice when it closed a round of venture capital funding that included Google Ventures, but the trend has been building for several years. Companies like Monsanto, tractor maker Deere, and technology giants IBM and Intel are among those already competing with a growing gang of Silicon Valley startups, all hoping for a proliferation of Keith Larrabees: farmers who will see data as an integral part of farming, as important as a reliable tractor or good seed.

A survey conducted last year by the American Farm Bureau Federation, a farm trade association, found that 39 percent of respondents in major corn- and wheat-growing states were using sensor-driven technologies on their farms. “Farming is moving from being an act of intuitive decision making to an act of analytical decision making,” says David Friedberg, CEO of Climate Corporation, a data modeling firm that Monsanto bought for $930 million in 2013.

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This shift has been made possible in the United States by the proliferation of wireless networks in farm regions and the popularity of smartphones that can deliver information to farmers working in the fields. Major tractor manufacturers have been including hundreds of inexpensive sensors on field equipment for a decade, making it possible to collect data like the topography of each field and the location and depth of each seed planted.

Drones and smaller satellites promise to continue the data generation by making it increasingly possible to capture frequent, high-quality images of small sections of field, at a far lower cost than traditional photography from a piloted plane.

A company called PTC makes a platform, pictured here, that displays relevant data for farmers.

This kind of information can be especially useful when combined with large data sets that government agencies have made available—largely free—in recent years. Among them: troves of historical soil surveys, weather data, and satellite imagery. Because there are so many sensors, and every data point from a farm sensor has a place and time stamp, the volume of information being generated is enormous, creating a technical challenge for those trying to analyze it. The amount of data from one large farm might be counted in the hundreds of terabytes, according to IBM. Creating the infrastructure to handle that much data will be complicated, says Vin Sharma, a director in Intel’s big-data analytics unit.

If companies can create services that turn this abundance of data into money-saving advice, the effect could be crucial for farmers operating on tight margins—in the United States, corn-belt farmers on rented land cleared around $20 an acre in net profit last year. Combining information like localized weather forecasts with details about topography, water levels in the soil, and the seed that has been planted in a field, a company like Climate Corporation will advise farmers about how much fertilizer, an expensive item, to put on a field and when to do so.

But how good is the advice coming from the many companies angling to become the farmer’s data advisor? Respondents to the American Farm Bureau Federation survey reported that the technologies they are using have reduced their input costs—a category including fertilizer and seed—by 15 percent on average and increased their crop yield by 13 percent.

Still, many farmers remain skeptical. “I don’t think farmers will be excited about these [data-driven recommendations] until they see the payoff,” says Carl Dillon, an agricultural economist at the University of Kentucky.

SOURCE: http://www.technologyreview.com/news/537596/internet-of-farm-things/

http://www.technologyreview.com/featuredstory/526491/agricultural-drones/

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PRESS INFORMATION

Sustainable technologies and cooperation in food and agriculture

Milan - 26.08.2015 - Sustainable technologies and cooperation in food and agriculture

On the occasion of Expo Milan 2015 and the European Year for Development, the Directorate

General for Development Cooperation of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International

Cooperation, in partnership with the National Council of Research (CNR), the Agricultural

Research Centre (CREA) and UNIDO Italy organizes an event which aims to:

present methods,

technological tools and

programmes

adopted in development cooperation projects that can be extended to and at least partially

reproduced in other countries and different economic and social contexts;

reach stakeholders keen to support, finance and participate directly in existing projects or

interested in contributing to the development of new ideas and programmes;

allow interested parties to examine cutting-edge technologies and systems for the

transformation and sale of food products and technologies employed to set up monitoring,

planning and simulation systems.

In the final session of the event UNIDO will present an award to the winners of a call for

proposals launched by the organization for innovative projects in the area of technology, food

transformation and energy production applied to agriculture.

SOURCE:

http://www.cooperazioneallosviluppo.esteri.it/pdgcs/index.php?option=com_content&view=ar

ticle&id=12485:26-08-2015-sustainable-technologies-and-cooperation-in-food-and-

agriculture&catid=118:eventi-en&Itemid=914

http://www.cooperazioneallosviluppo.esteri.it/pdgcs/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12485:26-08-2015-sustainable-technologies-and-cooperation-in-food-and-agriculture&catid=118:eventi-en&Itemid=914







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INSPIRE INFORMATION REQUEST

How innovative is your organisation with data?

Michael Lutz

EC - JRC - ISPRA 31 August at 17:01

Questionnaire on the

European Data-Driven Economy

Following the Commission Communication COM2014(442) 'Towards a thriving data-driven

economy', the Commission launched in January 2015 a targeted stakeholder.

The European Commission (DG CONNECT) is gathering facts and views on the role and

impacts of data-driven innovation in several economic sectors, including the geospatial, earth

observation and environmental sector. This consultation will contribute to the definition of future

initiatives for the data-driven economy.

The questionnaire aims at understanding the use of (big) data analytics in decision-making,

business processes and emerging business models, and at gathering insights on the characteristics

of a functioning data ecosystem in your specific domain and identify existing or potential

barriers to the development of data-driven industrial sectors in Europe.

This exercise has two main objectives:

1. to understand the use of (big) data analytics in decision-making, business processes and

emerging business models, and

2. to gather insights on the characteristics of a functioning data ecosystem in your specific

domain and identify existing or potential barriers to the development of data-driven industrial

sectors in Europe.

The questionnaire takes about twenty minutes to complete. The outcome will contribute to the

definition of future initiatives for the data-driven economy. In case your organisation wishes to

submit please send it to [email protected] before 15 September 2015.

Find more information here: http://inspire.ec.europa.eu/index.cfm/newsid/11887

data-driven_economy_questionnaire.doc

Participation in the questionnaire is anonymous by default. Responses will be analysed so that no individual

person or organisation can be identified.

Optionally, in case you accept to be identified and contacted by European Commission staff for further details on

the answers provided in the current questionnaire, please share your contact details with us in the space dedicated

for this purpose at the end of the questionnaire.

https://www.facebook.com/michel.lutz

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/communication-data-driven-economy

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/communication-data-driven-economy


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WEB INFORMATION

Herzlich Willkommen auf der Homepage der Forstwissenschaftlichen Tagung

Save the Date - Call for Sessions

Bitte notieren Sie sich in Ihrem Kalender: die Forstwissenschaftliche Tagung 2016 findet vom

26. bis 29. September 2016 in Freiburg im Breisgau statt.

Wir laden Sie zur wichtigsten deutschsprachigen forstwissenschaftlichen Konferenz in den

Schwarzwald ein und freuen uns schon jetzt sehr auf lebhaften Austausch und Diskussionen

innerhalb und zwischen Wissenschaft und Praxis. Die Schwerpunktthemen der Tagung

umfassen:

die Auswirkungen des Klimawandels auf den Wald sowie

die Anpassungsstrategien der Forstwirtschaft an den Klimawandel,

Biodiversität und Naturschutz,

die Intensität der Waldnutzung,

die Rolle der Bioökonomie für die Waldwirtschaft, und

Evidenzbasierte Forstwirtschaft – die Objektivierung des Systemverständnisses

Zu diesen Themenfeldern und auch zu anderen, zusätzlichen Themen können Sie bis zum 15.

Juli 2015 spezifische Sessions vorschlagen. Sessions können sowohl von Einzelpersonen, von

Sektionen des Deutschen Verbands Forstlicher Forschungsanstalten, sowie von Arbeitsgruppen

und Institutionen empfohlen werden. Eine Session umfasst i. d. R. 5 Beiträge (jeweils 15 min.

Vortrag + 5 min. Diskussion). Bei Bedarf können auch Doppelsessions mit max. 10 Beiträgen

eingerichtet werden.

Ihre Vorschläge für Themen und ModeratorInnen von Sessions senden Sie bitte an die folgende

Email-Adresse: [email protected]

Nach Auswahl der Sessions und Erstellung eines Programms mit Sessions durch das

Wissenschaftliche Komitee erfolgt im Herbst 2015 ein weiterer Aufruf zur Anmeldung von

Konferenzbeiträgen in Form von Vorträgen und Postern. Eine festliche Abendveranstaltung zur

Verleihung des Deutschen Forstwissenschaftspreises sowie ein vielfältiges Exkursionsangebot

runden die Tagung ab. Weitere Informationen zur Forstwissenschaftlichen Tagung 2016 werden

in Kürze auf dieser Internetseite bereitgestellt.

Jürgen Bauhus (im Namen des Wissenschaftlichen Komitees und Organisationsteams)

SOURCE:

http://www.fowita.de/index.php?id=6


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PRESS INFORMATION

New survey shows potential for cross-border access to online content... (Published on 28/08/2015)

Considering a paid subscription to watch films, listen to music, play games or read e-books

online? For almost one in three Europeans, it would be important to be able to use this

subscription when travelling in another EU country.

The younger the people are, the more they are attracted by cross-border opportunities. The

figure goes up to 58 % amongst the 15-24 year olds and 46 % of those aged 25-39.

These are some of the findings of a Eurobarometer survey published today by the European

Commission. Data also shows that cross-border access to

online content is still an uneasy experience: 56% of

Europeans who have tried to access a service meant for

users in another EU country met problems. While 8% of

all European Internet users have tried to access such

services, young people (15-24 years old) are the most

likely to have tried – almost one in five.

This shows the potential demand for cross-border access to legal content which will grow as the

market flourishes. Subscriptions to online content – in particular for audio-visual and music – are

growing fast: consumer spending on digital video subscriptions increased by 147,5 % in 2013,

according to another independent study.

As part of its Digital Single Market Strategy announced in May, the European Commission will

modernise EU copyright rules in the light of the digital revolution. The new rules, to be

presented in the coming months, will ensure portability of online subscriptions across the EU as

well as facilitate cross-border access to online content.

Full Eurobarometer survey

Last updated on 29/08/2015

SOURCE:

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/news/new-survey-shows-potential-cross-border-access-online-content-mainly-among-young-people

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Sehr geehrte Mitglieder und Freunde der AGEG,

wir freuen uns, Ihnen mitteilen zu können, dass die diesjährige AGEG Jahreskonferenz Arbeitsgemeinschaft Europäischer Grenzregionen am 13. November 2015 im Gebäude des AdR in Brüssel stattfindet. Das Hauptthema der Konferenz lautet: „Die Zukunft der grenzübergreifenden Zusammenarbeit in Europa". Dieses Thema wird allgemein beleuchtet, nicht nur im Hinblick auf EU Programme. Diese Konferenz wird durchgeführt in Zusammenarbeit mit der Europäischen Kommission, DG Regional and Urban Policy, dem Ausschuss der Regionen und dem Kongress der Gemeinden und Regionen des Europarates. Im Namen aller Konferenzpartner bitten wir Sie, den Termin bereits in Ihren Kalendern zu notieren! Ein erster Programmentwurf sowie eine kurze Erläuterung zum Konferenzthema finden Sie beigefügt. Sie erhalten bald die offizielle Einladung sowie praktische Hinweise zu Reise/Unterkunft sowie Anmeldung. Weitere Sprachversionen des Programms sowie Updates werden demnächst auf www.aebr.eu abrufbar sein. Darüber hinaus möchten wir bereits jetzt mitteilen, dass am 12. November 2015 ein AdR/AGEG Seminar zum Thema EVTZ stattfindet. Wir bitten Sie herzlich, auch diesen Termin bereits jetzt zu notieren. Weitere Informationen folgen in Kürze. Mit freundlichen Grüßen Martín Guillermo Ramírez Generalsekretär Association of European Border Regions (AEBR) Arbeitsgemeinschaft Europäischer Grenzregionen (AGEG) e.V. Association des régions frontalières européennes (ARFE) Asociación de Regiones Fronterizas Europeas (ARFE) Enscheder Str. 362, D-48599 Gronau Tel.: +49 (0) 2562 - 702 20 Fax: +49 (0) 2562 - 702 59 E-Mail: [email protected] www.aebr.eu FOLLOW US ON TWITTER: https://twitter.com/SocialnetAEBR / https://twitter.com/ageg_socialnet Secretary General: Martín Guillermo Ramírez Registry no. 5420, Local Court of Coesfeld/Germany

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http://www.landwirtschaft.sachsen.de/landwirtschaft/34061.htm


https://eoportal.org/web/eoportal/home;jsessionid=38AC1A5AA672C4F1F4891542E98B690E





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EU Förderprogramme in den Bereichen Umwelt, Landwirtschaft, Ländlicher Raum und Forst

EU-Agrarpolitik | Germanwatch e.V.

EURISY - Events

EURISY - Satellite applications

EURISY - Pool of 150 operational User ecperiences

EURISY - The added value of Geoinformation and LBS for Agriculture & Forestry

European Year for Development

Fachschule für Landwirtschaft Großenhain

Fachschulverzeichnis - Fortbildung - Bildungsserver Agrar

FAO-EU Partnership: EU projects

Förder- und Fachbildungszentrum Nossen, Sitz Döbeln mit Fachschule für Landwirtschaft

Forstbericht (2008-2012) der Sächsischen Staatsregierung

Forstpolitisches Forum 8:

Forstpolitisches Forum 9: Waldstrategie 2050 des Freistaates Sachsen – Eckpfeiler für die Nachhaltigkeit in der multifunktionalen Forstwirtschaft

Forstpolitisches Forum 10: Sächsischer Branchentag – Forst Holz Papier

ICT-AGRI | ICT-AGRI Meta Knowledge Base

IHK-Bildungszentrum Dresden gGmbH: Sachkundenachweiskarte im Pflanzenschutz und Fortbildungen (Übersicht)

Informations- und Servicestelle Plauen mit Fachschule für Landwirtschaft

Integratives Umweltmanagement: Systemorientierte Zusammenhänge zwischen ... - Google Books

Internationales Jahr der familienbetriebenen Landwirtschaft 2014 - Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen e.V.

Investing in agriculture: Barbarians at the farm gate | The Economist

ISAF2014

ISAF2014 - 18th International Conference on Information Systems for Agriculture and Forestry (ISAF 2014) | ICT-AGRI Meta Knowledge Base

ISAF2014 Hackathon WiKi | SDI4APPS

Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie - IHK - Infostelle Bildung

Landwirtschaft Sachsen EIP-AGRI Nachlese zur Ideenwerkstatt

Landwirtschaft Sachsen Informationen zu den Arbeitskreisen

Landwirtschaft Sachsen Regionales Agrar- und Wirtschaftlichkeits-InformationsSystem (RAWIS)

Landwirtschaft Sachsen Vorträge der Veranstaltung

LEADER 2014-2020

Monsanto - Mächtige Lobby - Wirtschaft - Süddeutsche.de

http://www.smul.sachsen.de/foerderung/

http://germanwatch.org/de/thema/weltern%C3%A4hrung/eu-agrarpolitik

http://www.eurisy.org/events.php


https://prezi.com/el1me2utusht/copy-of-150-direct-operational-user-experiences/


https://europa.eu/eyd2015/

https://www.smul.sachsen.de/lfulg/7501.htm

https://www.bildungsserveragrar.de/index.php?tx_blefachschulverzeichnis_fachschulverzeichnis%5Bbundesland%5D=15&id=603&no_cache=1

http://www.fao.org/europeanunion/eu-projects/en/?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social+media&utm_campaign=fao+facebook

http://www.smul.sachsen.de/lfulg/7477.htm

https://publikationen.sachsen.de/bdb/artikel/10648

http://www.forsten.sachsen.de/wald/2935.htm




http://ict-agri.eu/node/1

http://www.bz.dresden.ihk.de/servlet/news_s?news_id=10890&ref_detail=portal&tmpl_suffix=0__druck&suppress_hyperlinks&suppress_evt_handler&print_document=1&css_suffix=_druck&ref_knoten_id=2908&ref_sprache=deu

http://www.bz.dresden.ihk.de/servlet/news_s?news_id=10890&ref_detail=portal&tmpl_suffix=0__druck&suppress_hyperlinks&suppress_evt_handler&print_document=1&css_suffix=_druck&ref_knoten_id=2908&ref_sprache=deu

http://www.smul.sachsen.de/lfulg/7471.htm

https://books.google.de/books?id=LQ6T1jWFmq0C&pg=PA852&lpg=PA852&dq=smul.sachsen.de+landwirtschaft&source=bl&ots=MIpNZC0Z3F&sig=9Hpj9WwTvsCkIsU-IJVWbXU88dY&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CFQQ6AEwCDgeahUKEwiry7rDprDHAhVjw3IKHW-_AEg#v=onepage&q=smul.sachsen.de%20landwirtschaft&f=false

http://www.dgvn.de/themenschwerpunkte/internationales-jahr-der-familienbetriebenen-landwirtschaft-2014/

http://www.dgvn.de/themenschwerpunkte/internationales-jahr-der-familienbetriebenen-landwirtschaft-2014/

http://www.economist.com/news/finance-and-economics/21637379-hardy-investors-are-seeking-way-grow-their-money-barbarians-farm-gate?fsrc=scn/tw/te/pe/ed/barbariansathefarmgate

http://www.isaf2014.info/



http://sdi4apps.eu/2014/09/wiki-for-isaf-2014-hackathon/

http://www.die-bildungsberatung.de/ZustStellen/Aemter-Landwirtschaft.htm





http://www.smul.sachsen.de/laendlicher_raum/4712.htm

http://www.sueddeutsche.de/wirtschaft/monsanto-maechtige-lobby-1.2568849





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Monsanto Schottland will Anbau von GMO-Saatgut verbieten | RT Deutsch

Monsanto verdoppelt mit Daten-Überwachung die Getreide-Ernte | Nachrichten – DEUTSCHE WIRTSCHAFTS NACHRICHTEN

Partner - Umwelt und Landwirtschaft, Naturschutz und Umwelt des Freistaates Thüringen, Umwelt Sachsen-Anhalt, Bauernverband, Bauernzeitung

POMODORE@ - Intelligent Management for high quality of tomato production

RAWIS - Regionale Rauminformation Landwirtschaft - Überblick

ReKIS - Regionales Klimainformationssystem

Richtlinie »Agrarumwelt- und Klimamaßnahmen (AUK/2015)«

Richtlinie »Agrarumweltmaßnahmen und Waldmehrung« (RL AuW/2007, Teil A) - Abfinanzierung

Sächsischer Agrarbericht 2014

Search OpenData | Digital Agenda for Europe | European Commission

Sentinel-1 on eoPortal

Silicon Valley Takes a Trip to the Farm Belt | MIT Technology Review

SMUL LfUG Publikationen, Daten und Fakten

SMUL Publikationen

SMUL Sachsen : E-Learning Gartenbau

SMUL SBS PDF Organigramm des Staatsbetriebes Sachsenforst - Organigramm_SBS.pdf

SMUL_LfUG Sächsisches Landesamt für Umwelt, Landwirtschaft und Geologie

SMUL_SBS Staatsbetrieb Sachsenforst

SN_LEADER Startseminar_02-07-2008 - SN_Startseminar_02-07-2008.pdf

Standortbedingungen Landwirtschaft Sachsen Fachkulissen und Standortinformationen

Sustainable technologies and cooperation in food and agriculture

UN_FAO Webinar - Implementing Linked Data in Low Resource Conditions

USDA Blog » HACKATHON - Using Open Data in Creative Ways to Solve Problems

Wald, Forstwirtschaft, Jagd in Sachsen

Wälder & Abholzung - Deutsche Gesellschaft für die Vereinten Nationen e.V.

Waldstrategie 2050 für den Freistaat Sachsen

Waldverjüngung durch Holzernte

Waldzustandsbericht 2012



WWFoodWeb - 104pp_PDF

WWFoodWeb - International Innovation - Issue 182 digital edition

http://www.rtdeutsch.com/28669/international/schottland-will-anbau-von-gmo-saatgut-verbieten/

http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/08/13/monsanto-daten-offensive-soll-getreide-ertraege-verdoppeln/

http://deutsche-wirtschafts-nachrichten.de/2015/08/13/monsanto-daten-offensive-soll-getreide-ertraege-verdoppeln/

http://www.agra2015.de/partner.php

http://www.agra2015.de/partner.php

http://www.pomodore.eu/117/


http://141.30.160.224/fdm/index.jsp?k=rekis

http://www.smul.sachsen.de/foerderung/3313.htm

https://www.smul.sachsen.de/foerderung/94.htm

https://publikationen.sachsen.de/bdb/artikel/11531

https://ec.europa.eu/digital-agenda/en/search/site/OpenData

https://eoportal.org/web/eoportal/satellite-missions/c-missions/copernicus-sentinel-1

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/537596/internet-of-farm-things/

https://www.smul.sachsen.de/lfulg/6447.htm

https://www.smul.sachsen.de/smul/59.htm

http://www.hswt.de/forschung/forschungsprojekte/gartenbau/e-learning-im-gartenbau/smul-sachsen.html

http://www.smul.sachsen.de/sbs/download/Organigramm_SBS.pdf

http://www.smul.sachsen.de/lfulg/index.html

http://www.smul.sachsen.de/sbs/

http://www.netzwerk-laendlicher-raum.de/fileadmin/sites/ELER/Dateien/05_Service/Veranstaltungen/Startseminare_Vortraege/SN_Startseminar_02-07-2008.pdf



https://www.asist.org/Webinars/2015-09-09-Webinar-DCMI-99bnG.pdf

http://blogs.usda.gov/2015/05/28/using-open-data-in-creative-ways-to-solve-problems/

http://www.forsten.sachsen.de/index.html

http://www.dgvn.de/themenschwerpunkte/waelder-abholzung/


http://www.medienservice.sachsen.de/medien/news/199025

https://www.publikationen.sachsen.de/bdb/artikel/10875



http://origin.misc.pagesuite.com/pdfdownload/6ceb8c27-5b8c-4789-8822-f7b7b43e3067.pdf

http://digimag.internationalinnovation.com/launch.aspx?eid=76b2d629-bbda-4be8-af91-2da555b87e21&pnum=13





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TABLE OF CONTENTS <> INHALTSVERZEICHNIS

GI2015 – PROGRAMME & PROCEEDINGS & WEB NEWS Seite / Page*)

GI2015 – Impressum 2

GI2015 – Final Programme / 15. September 2015 3

GI2015 – Registration Form 4

GI2015 – Welcome Address & Introduction by IGN e.V. 5

GI2015 – About Cross-border Organizers (IGN, CCSS & PROGIS) 8

GI2015 – PROCEEDINGS of Keynotes, Abstracts & Summaries 9

CoO – WORKSHOPS on ICT for Agriculture & Forestry 34

GI2015 – Press Information & WEB News 45

GI2015 – TABLE OF CONTENTS <> Inhaltsverzeichnis 64

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the TU Dresden / AST (AgriSystemTechnique) for technical support

the Authors of CENIA, EURISY, UPVISON contributing keynote presentations

the Organizations of CCSS & PROGIS providing workshop presentations

the DR. SCHILLER & PARTNER GmbH (Dresden) & the BOWLING ARENA SERVICE GmbH (Dresden)

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