The VitiGEOSS project was presented during the session “EuroGEO for agriculture in support of the partnership “Agriculture of Data” and the European Green Deal” held within the EuroGEO Workshop and celebrated last 7th of December in Athens, Greece.
The session had the objective to map the way forward on how EO based services support the sector to become more sustainable, as well as present and discuss the partnership for “Agriculture of Data” and define which research needs and European wide activities should be addressed.
Erwin Goor, VitiGEOSS project’s officer and project advisor of the European Research Executive Agency (REA), participated in the session presenting VitiGEOSS as a key European project developing vineyard innovative tools based on the integration of Earth Observation services and in-field sensors. The presentation also offered an explanation of all the solutions promoted by the project which include weather and climate services, phenological monitoring and crop status tools, disease management system, business management and sustainability indicators.
Download the presentation delivered here
Additionally, the session also included the presentation of other European projects working in the field of Earth Observation and agriculture research: e-SHAPE, ENVISION, NextLAND, CYBELE, AfriCultuReS and TWIGA.
The EuroGEO workshop was organised by the European Commission, the General Secretariat for Research and Innovation of the Hellenic Ministry of Development and Investments, and the Greek GEO Office operating within the National Observatory of Athens (NOA).