Symington Family Estates presents the VitiGEOSS platform during a workshop on digital trends applied to the wine sector organised by ADVID
2023-05-26
Joana Valente, project partner and viticulturist at Symington Family Estates, participated in the workshop “Dias na Vinha: Tendências e inovações digitais aplicadas ao setor vitivinícola”, organised by ADVID – the Association for the Development of Viticulture in the Douro Region and celebrated last 26th of May in Quinta da Pacheca (Portugal).
During the theoretical session “Presentation of digital solutions”, she delivered the presentation “A solution for winegrowers to promote vineyard sustainability”, which introduced the VitiGEOSS platform, a solution providing support to growers and aiming to be a single access point for wine producers, supporting a circular economy approach. The presentation also included an explanation of the platform information services, as well as the main benefits expected.
The VitiGEOSS platform is the first application offering integrated services for sub-seasonal and seasonal predictions, crop management, disease warnings, business operations and sustainability monitoring.
Moreover, the session included the participation of representatives from the different projects and initiatives such as SIGP – The Integrated Property Management System powered by GeoDOURO, VineSignal, INCAFO Project, VirtuaCrop and i-GRAPE.
The ADVID is a non-profit organisation aimed at contributing to the modernisation of viticulture and to the increased portability of vineyards in the Demarcated Douro Region and to the improved quality of its wines.

Eurecat brings the VitiGEOSS project to the Food4Future ExpoFoodTech 2023
2023-05-16 - 2023-05-18
Eurecat, the VitiGEOSS coordinator, presented the project during the Food4Future – ExpoFoodTech celebrated from May 16th – 18th in the Bilbao Exhibition Centre (Spain).
Marta Otero, project partner and PhD researcher at the Applied Artificial Intelligence Unit of Eurecat, participated in the session “Artificial Intelligence and other technologies in agri-food production” presenting the VitiGEOSS project and talking about the importance of undertaking digitalization processes in the agrifood industry, as well as the most significant present and future trends.
During the congress, Eurecat which has its own booth, showcased VitiGEOSS as one of its key research projects in the agriculture sector. The project, funded under the Horizon 2020 programme, is developing an innovative vineyard tool based on the integration of Earth Observation Services and in-field sensors.
The Food4Future – ExpoFoodTech is an important platform to discover the latest innovations and trends which are leading the transformation of the food industry. This event is the excellent place for any professional in the food industry where they can acquire the latest and most promising food technology applications, robotics and automation, data technology, or processing techniques.

The VitiGEOSS project takes part in the Enoforum Vicenza 2023
2023-05-16 - 2023-05-18
VitiGEOSS partners participated in the Enoforum, the largest technical-scientific congress in Europe for the wine sector, celebrated from 16th – 18th of May in Vicenza (Italy).
During the congress, project’s partners organised two demo sessions, one in Italian and another in English, to provide an overview of the services integrated into the VitiGEOSS platform and present use cases of how the platform can be used by wine producers for better informed decision-making. Each of the demo session counted with almost 20 participants that could explore the features that the VitiGEOSS platform offers and express interest in becoming a test user to try it out during the next following year.
Boris Basile, associate professor of viticulture at University of Naples Federico II (UNINA); Laia Garriga, Applied Artificial Intelligence Unit Promoter of Eurecat; Jessica Snoek, project manager at eLEAF, and Andria Nicodemou, climate science communication specialist at the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), moderated the two demo sessions.
On the other hand, Boris Basile presented VitiGEOSS during the flash talk titled “Vineyard innovative tools based on the integration of Earth Observation Services and in-field sensors”, giving a general overview about the project and explaining the work done in developing innovative tools for vineyard management based on the integration of Earth Observation Services and in-field sensors.

The project counted with its own stand during the three days of the congress from where partners showcased what are we doing at the VitiGEOSS project for a greater sustainability and optimisation in wine operations.
The Enoforum brought together producers, technicians, oenologists and agronomists, researchers and technology providers, with the objective to promote the development of innovation in the wine and viticulture sector.

The VitiGEOSS project presented in the Open Day on digitalization of the agricultural sector organised by Eurecat
2023-03-23
The VitiGEOSS project was presented during the Open Day “Technological infrastructures for the digitalization of the agricultural sector” organised by Eurecat and celebrated last 23rd of March in the Lleida AgroBioTech Park (Spain).
Josep Pijuan, researcher from the Applied Artificial Intelligence Unit of Eurecat, participated in the session “Validating digital solution in real environments: experiences and lessons learned” presenting VitiGEOSS as one of Eurecat’s key research and innovation projects in agri-food sector.
The presentation included a general overview about the VitiGEOSS project which is developing an innovative vineyard management solution based on the integration of Earth Observation services and in-field sensors with the objective to increase the resolution and reliability of satellite information applied to the viticulture sector.
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The Open Day, part of agROBOfood Digital Innovation Hub activities, brought together more than 100 producers, companies and research entities with the objective to present experiences and best practices in validating digital solutions.
The event also included presentations from other projects and initiatives related to the digitalisation of agriculture.

Presenting VitiGEOSS project during the Mobile World Congress 2023
2023-02-27 - 2023-03-02
Eurecat, the VitiGEOSS project coordinator, has participated at the Mobile World Congress 2023, which took place from February 27th – March 2nd in Barcelona, Spain.
The project has been included in Eurecat’s catalogue which has been distributed to attendees approaching its booth during the Congress.
Take a look at the catalogue distributed here
VitiGEOSS has been presented as one of the key research projects in the agriculture sector of the centre. The project, funded under the Horizon 2020 programme, is developing an innovative vineyard tool based on the integration of Earth Observation Services and in-field sensors
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) is an annual event which attracts some of the most influential decision makers worldwide and professionals from mobile operators, software companies and equipment providers, among others.

VitiGEOSS takes part in the annual EuroGEO workshop
2022-12-07 - 2022-12-09
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.
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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).

Eurecat presents VitiGEOSS during the “Fira de Novembre” online exhibition 2022
2022-11-11 - 2022-11-13
The VitiGEOSS project has been presented during the “Fira de Novembre de Vilanova i la Geltrú” online exhibition which took place from 11th – 13th of November 2022 and brought together a huge variety of expositors from different economic and industry sectors.
VitiGEOSS’s coordinator Eurecat presented the project as one of the key research and innovation projects in agri-food sector of the Technology Centre, developing an innovative vineyard management tool based on Earth Observation services and in-field sensors. On the other hand, Eurecat also presented the projects Interacciona, IoE Crops and Grape, promoting different innovative initiatives and solutions to facilitate the digitisation of the agricultural and livestock sectors.
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VitiGEOSS-related poster presented during the International Congress of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence
2022-10-19 - 2022-10-21
VitiGEOSS researchers have presented the poster “Data driven predictive models based on Artificial Intelligence to anticipate the presence of Plasmopara viticola and Uncinula necator in southern European winegrowing regions” during the 24th International Congress of the Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (24CCIA). The CCIA Congress, the meeting point of the Catalan Artificial Intelligence community, has been celebrated from 19th – 21st of October in Sitges (Spain).
The poster, which is produced under the framework of the VitiGEOSS project, introduces the new predictive modelling tools and methods that allow anticipating disease appearance in the vineyard, while minimising the losses in fruit yield and quality, and helping farmers to define appropriate and more sustainable disease management strategies. The work also presents the results obtained of the comparison of the three different study areas which are centered in the Mediterranean and Atlantic region of vine production in Europe.
The work, produced by Marta Otero, Jordi Ricard Onrubia, Alex Josep Pujol, Luisa Fernanda Velásquez and Josep Pijuan, from the Applied Artificial Intelligence of Eurecat, and Boris Basile, from the University of Naples Federico II, has been granted as the best short paper award.
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The Catalan Association of Artificial Intelligence (ACIA) is a non-profit association focused on promote the advancement of Artificial Intelligence sector in the Catalan society and has the objective to support communication between all the agents involved in this field, promoting social, cultural, scientific, economic and governmental awareness.

VitiGEOSS participated in a workshop organised as part of the SnapEarth project
2022-06-01
Partners represented the VitiGEOSS project at the workshop “New EO-based High-Resolution soil moisture products to address climate risk and food security” taking place online on the 1st of June 2022.
The workshop was organised by IsardSAT and Lobelia Earth in the framework of the SnapEarth project.
VitiGEOSS partners participated in the workshop and took the opportunity to introduce VitiGEOSS, as a project making use of the potential of European Earth Observation services for deploying an innovative commercial information solution to optimise sustainable grapevine cultivation.
The workshop had the objective to provide insights on the relevance of Earth Observation-based Soil Moisture data for risk anticipation, resource optimisation and data modelling, as well as to gather feedback on how to improve the products to address market needs, enabling the dialogue with different stakeholders on requirements limitations, expectations and applications of EO-based data.
In addition, the workshop included the presentation of the EarthFood Security platform, developed by the European project SnapEarth, which provides information on soil moisture, drought and fire index, based on EO data.
The SnapEarth project is working to facilitate access to Earth Observation data from the general public thanks to EO data labelling and indexation innovations. The main goal of the project is to bring out new values through large-scale earth observation data services and to anticipate future priorities by leveraging artificial intelligence and cloud computing technologies and tools.

Partners from BSC present VitiGEOSS during the Barcelona Science Festival
2022-05-28 - 2022-05-29
The VitiGEOSS project was presented during a session held as part of the 15th Barcelona Science Festival, which was celebrated on the 28th – 29th of May 2022 and organised by the Barcelona City Council.
Project partners from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC) participated in the discussion session titled “How do we adapt to climate change”, and took the opportunity to introduce the work conducted in VitiGEOSS, as one of their key research projects developing innovative solutions to reduce and mitigate climate change in vineyards.
The session also included the presentation of the research performed in other climate-related projects in which the BSC participates, such as MED-GOLD, S2S4E and CALIOPE.
The Barcelona Science Festival is a great encounter of science and culture, open to the general public and all ages. This year’s edition offered a programme with more than 200 activities, 27 different areas and more than 150 entities of the city related with science, research and knowledge.

VitiGEOSS takes part in the Food4Future ExpoFoodTech 2022
2022-05-17 - 2022-05-19
The VitiGEOSS project coordinator Eurecat has participated at the Food4Future – ExpoFoodTech celebrated from May 17th – 19th in the Bilbao Exhibition Centre (Spain).
During the event, Eurecat which has its own booth, presented VitiGEOSS as one of its key research projects in the agriculture sector. The project, funded under the Horizon 2020 programme, is developing an innovative vineyard tool based on the integration of Earth Observation Services and in-field sensors.
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The Food4Future – ExpoFoodTech aims to be the platform to discover the latest innovations and trends which are leading the transformation of the food industry. This event is the excellent place for any professional in the food industry where they can acquire the latest and most promising food technology applications, robotics and automation, data technology, or processing techniques.

Eurecat brings VitiGEOSS project to the IoT Solutions World Congress 2022
2022-05-10 - 2022-05-12
The VitiGEOSS coordinator Eurecat has presented the project in the IoT Solutions World Congress 2022, celebrated from 10th – 12th of May in Barcelona, Spain.

During the congress, VitiGEOSS materials were exhibited in the Eurecat’s own booth, located at Pavilion 4 stand C321, as one of the key European research and innovation projects in agri-food sector of the Technology Centre. The project is developing an innovative vineyard tool based on the integration of Earth Observation Services and in-field sensors with the goal to increase the resolution and reliability of satellite information applied to the viticulture sector.
Take a look at the project materials here
The IoT Solutions World Congress is an international event which showcases the most innovative solutions and technologies that are disrupting and transforming industry. The event is a great opportunity and a global meeting place for business and tech executives looking to leverage technology to achieve innovative and disruptive outcomes.

Webinar - Intelligent services for the wine sector: Tackling current and future challenges
2022-03-16 10:00 - 11:00 UTC
The VitiGEOSS project invites you to take part in our first webinar to explore the current and future challenges of the wine sector and the use of open Earth Observation services.
During the webinar, project partners will present how VitiGEOSS is working to address the challenges by developing an innovative vineyard management solution that integrates information on climate predictions, crop phenology, irrigation, fertilisation, disease, and business and sustainability management. Furthermore, a sneak peek into the VitiGEOSS platform will be showcased for the first time, while wine producers involved in the project will give us their insights on how these services can help them to improve their operations.
At the end of the webinar, the audience will be invited to provide their thoughts and interests in an interactive session, which will help to shape the topics for the upcoming project’s webinars.
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Target audience:

Technology providers
Viticulture and agriculture stakeholders
Earth Observation and climate services providers
Scientific community (in particular climate services, climate predictions, EO, satellite data)
Other European projects

Agenda:
10.00 – Welcome & Introduction

Marta Terrado, Researcher and Communicator in Earth Science, BSC

Andria Nicodemou, Science Communication Specialist, BSC

10.05 – Tackling current and future sustainability challenges of the wine sector

Rosa Araujo, Project Manager and VitiGEOSS Project Coordinator, Eurecat

Marta Otero, Researcher at at the Applied Artificial Intelligence Unit, Eurecat
10.20 – Sneak peek into the VitiGEOSS platform

Ernesto Bastidas, Project and Business Manager, eLEAF
10.25 – Insights from wine producers: How can intelligent services benefit viticulture?
Montse Torres, Viticulture R&D Manager, Familia Torres
Antonio Dente, Agronomic Manager, Mastroberardino
Fernando Alves, R&D Viticulture Senior Manager, Symington
10.45 – Interactive session: Thoughts on the need for intelligent services for agriculture
11.00 – Closing remarks & Webinar closure

Presenting VitiGEOSS project during the Mobile World Congress 2022
2022-03-03
The VitiGEOSS project coordinator Eurecat has participated at the Mobile World Congress 2022, which took place from February 28th – March 3rd in Barcelona, Spain.
The project has been included in Eurecat’s catalogue which has been distributed to attendees approaching its booth during the Congress.
Take a look at the catalogue distributed here
VitiGEOSS has been presented as one of the key research projects in the agriculture sector of the centre. The project, funded under the Horizon 2020 programme, is developing an innovative vineyard tool based on the integration of Earth Observation Services and in-field sensors
The Mobile World Congress (MWC) is an annual event which attracts some of the most influential decision makers worldwide and professionals from mobile operators, software companies and equipment providers, among others.

Partners from BSC present VitiGEOSS during the “Weather and Society” conference 2022
2022-02-28 - 2022-03-11
The VitiGEOSS project was presented in the session “The last mile challenges of seamless weather and climate information” organised within the “Weather and Society” online conference celebrated from February 28th to March 11th.
During the session, Marta Terrado, researcher and communicator in Earth sciences from the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), delivered the presentation “The VitiGEOSS vineyard management solution: applying user-centered design to the coproduction of climate services across time scales” and explained the main work and research done hand-in-hand with recognized wine producers to improve business operations in the wine sector.
On the other hand, the presentation included an introduction to the VitiGEOSS platform, which integrates information at different time scales, being a one-stop-shop for weather forecasts, sub-seasonal and seasonal climate predictions at selected demo sites of three major wine producers in Spain, Italy and Portugal.
The “Weather and Society” conference was organised by the Societal Economic Research Applications (SERA) Working Group of the WMO World Weather Research Program (WWRP), from which BSC is a member, in collaboration with DWD’s Hans Ertel Centre for Weather Research. The conference was focused on science to services and provided a great opportunity to share social science insight and innovation with the broader hydrometeorological community.

VitiGEOSS project presented at the EIP-AGRI workshop “Farm data for better farm performance”
2021-12-09
A VitiGEOSS project video was displayed during the session “Permanent crops” held within the European Innovation Partnershop (EIP-AGRI) workshop “Farm data for better farm performance”, celebrated in an online format on Thursday 9th of December. The video shown offered a general overview about VitiGEOSS, its consortium, the platform to be developed, as well as the three project’s pilots and the expected impacts.

The EIP-AGRI workshop had the objective to take stock of on-going successful projects and initatives that collect and use farm generated data to improve farm performance, explore the role of different stakeholders on farm data collection and provide an environment to exchange best practices on farm data collection, use and sharing.
In addition Josep Pijuan, project partner and researcher at the Applied Artificial Intelligence Unit of Eurecat, moderated the workshop “How to involve small-medium farmers in data economies?”, aiming at discussing and identifying the current barriers farmers are facing and proposing solutions for them. At the end of the workshop 4 main conclusions were higlighted:

Fear to share data is a general problem in several EU countries, definitely not just for small-scale farmers. This may be tackled by proper education on data systems, basic knowledge on technologies, trustfulness and security, and how they work
Different legal frameworks in different countries, as well as other inputs and language barriers, should be faced by interoperable and easy to use solutions
Precision farming may not be required for small-scale farmers, but better farming using data would be useful for them.
Access to trustful advisors, advisory systems and investments in new machines or technologies is relatively more difficult and expensive for small farmers, while they may need more detailed data. Solutions could include cooperative approaches to buy/use technology together with other farmers

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The EIP-AGRI is working to contribute to the European Union’s strategy “Europe 2020” for smart, sustainable and inclusive growth, and ensuring a steady supply of food, feed and biomaterials, developing its work in harmony with the essential natural resources on which farming depends.

Eurecat disseminates VitiGEOSS during the “Fira de Novembre” online exhibition 2021
2021-11-12 - 2021-11-14
The VitiGEOSS project has been presented during the “Fira de Novembre de Vilanova i la Geltrú” online exhibition which took place from 12th – 14th of November 2021 and brought together a huge variety of expositors from different economic and industry sectors.
VitiGEOSS’s coordinator Eurecat presented the project as one of the key research and innovation projects in agri-food sector of the Technology Centre, developing an innovative vineyard management tool based on Earth Observation services and in-field sensors. On the other hand, Eurecat also presented the projects Interacciona, IoE Crops and Grape, promoting different innovative initiatives and solutions to facilitate the digitisation of the agricultural and livestock sectors.
See the presentation virtual project’s exhibition here

Eurecat presents VitiGEOSS services to AURORAL project partners
2021-10-15
Josep Pijuan, project partner and researcher at the Applied Artificial Intelligence Unit of Eurecat, participated in the AURORAL project’s Catalan working group meeting which took place last 15th of October.
During the session, Pijuan presented to AURORAL partners the VitiGEOSS project’s main innovation, work and services developed with the objective to respond to future challenges of the worldwide food and wine industry and improve agricultural business operations at an economic, environmental and local level, integrated in a scalable platform and using technologies based on data fusion and data analytics of earth observational data sources.
AURORAL project aims to increase connectivity and deliver a digital environment of smart objects interoperable services platforms able to trigger dynamic rural ecosystems of innovation chains, applications and services. The project pilot of the Catalan wine region of Penedès has the objective to promote the energy valorisation of vine shoots pruning residues and to create new business opportunities related to the entire biomass value chain through the incorporation of various IoT applications.
The relationship between VitiGEOSS and AURORAL is strong. Both projects will continuously collaborate together sharing their research advances and developments and establishing networking synergies.

VitiGEOSS partners participate at the EuroGEO Workshop 2021
2021-09-21
VitiGEOSS project has been presented during the session “Advances made in EuroGEO to deliver user-oriented solutions” held within the EuroGEO Workshop and celebrated in an online format on Tuesday 21st of September.
The workshop, organised by the European Commision, was focused on the EO-based solution to support the European Green Deal while bringing the EU community actively contributing to the Group on Earth Observations (GEO). This edition brought together the main European players interested in and working on the promotion and use of Global Earth Observations Systems of Systems (GEOSS), to showcase in four parallel sessions the solutions that some projects are developing within this area.
Project partners from Eurecat, the project’s coordinator, LINKS and the Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), participated in the session and presented VitiGEOSS as a key European project in the agriculture sector, developing an innovative vineyard tool based on the integration of Earth Observation Services and in-field sensors. They gave a general overview about the VITIGEOSS solution and explained the seasonal and sub-seasonal climate predictions, based on the collaboration between scientists and wine sector users, as well as the phenological detection and prediction methodologies using satellite and seasonal data.
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Symington disseminates VitiGEOSS project in the Congresso Douro & Porto 2021
2021-07-19 - 2021-07-22
The VitiGEOSS project has been presented during the “Congresso Douro & Porto – Memoria+Futuro” organised by Vinhos Douro e Porto in a hybrid format from 19th – 22nd of July 2021.
Fernando Alves, project partner from Symington, participated in the session “Vine – Future/ Emerging technologies” and delivered the presentation “Emerging Technologies for Innovation in Monitoring Vineyard and Harvest Optimization in Hillside Viticulture in Douro: Case Studies at Symington”. Alves took the opportunity to introduce VitiGEOSS as a key project participated by Symington and focused at developing an innovative vineyard tool based on the integration of Earth Observation Services and in-field sensors.
The Congress Douro & Porto is a scientific and cultural event focused at promoting the convergence between history, sociology, law, viticulture, enology and economics, with views of biodiversity, climate change, sustainability and technology challenges in order to maintain the Douro Wine Region with vitality, dynamism and capacity to respond to constant changes and challenges.

VitiGEOSS presented during a webinar of the Netherlands Water Partnership
2021-06-16
The VitiGEOSS project has been represented in a session held within the webinar series “Sustainable adaptation to drought in the Aconcagua Valley” organised by the Netherlands Water Partnership and celebrated last June 16th.
The webinar series is focused on exploring the European demand for sustainable products and to exchange knowledge and expertise on water management for agriculture, as well as sustainable practices and innovation technologies to cope with drought and increase best practices for agricultural producers.
Ernesto Bastidas, project partner from eLEAF, participated in the session “Innovative Technologies for Irrigation and Soil Management” and took this opportunity to present VitiGEOSS as a key project promoting a more sustainable agriculture in wine sector by developing an innovative vineyard tool based on the integration of Earth Observation Services and in-field sensors. Ernesto gave a general overview about the project, explaining its main objectives, methodology and the expected outputs.
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The presentation also included a brief introduction on how eLEAF can help companies, institutions and other innovative projects to work in the sustainability sector, agricultural production and promote sustainable agriculture practices.
eLEAF is a Dutch high-tech company that provides satellite-based applications and data to optimize agricultural production, water resources management and agricultural index insurance. eLEAF is the developer and owner of a set of algorithms that transform meteorological and remote sensing-based data into quantitative crop, water and climate parameters per pixel.

Eurecat disseminates VitiGEOSS project during a session on Artificial Intelligence applied to the Agri-food Industry
2021-06-01
The VitiGEOSS project has been presented during the session “Artificial Intelligence in the Agri-food Industry”, organised by Digital Cluster and Eurecat on Tuesday 1st of June.
The session focused on discussing and analysing the degree of implementation of Artificial Intelligence techniques in the agri-food sector and what are the main challenges and expectations in a short-medium term.
Josep Pijuan, researcher at Eurecat’s Applied Artificial Intelligence Unit , participated in the session and presented VitiGEOSS as a key European project in the agriculture sector, developing an innovative vineyard tool based on the integration of Earth Observation Services and in-field sensors. Moreover, Josep Pijuan explained Eurecat’s main technical mission within VitiGEOOS, focused on data acquisition from in-field sensors combined with satellite data and weather, phenology and crop status forecasting models for an improved disease management on vineyards and the optimisation of resources for a sustainable agriculture.
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During the session, Pijuan also presented GRAPE, Agrobofood and IoECrops, as other key agri-food and Artificial Intelligence European projects participated by Eurecat.
The Digital Cluster is an association bringing together different start-ups, SMEs and large companies and other entities with the objective to boost the competitiveness of the Catalan ICT sector.

VitiGEOSS partners present at a workshop on “European platforms & co-design best practices”
2021-04-16
The VitiGEOSS project has participated in the workshop “European Platforms & Co-design best practices” organised by the European Research Executive Agency and celebrated in an online format on April 16th.
The workshop, aimed at sharing different project’s experiences related to the application of co-design approaches for the development of European platforms, included an introduction of the main EuroGEO highlights and the announcement of the next EuroGEO 2021 workshop, as well as a presentation of the findings and co-design best practices of e-shape project, which supports the coordinated explotaition of Earth Observation data and services across Europe.
Project partners from Eurecat , BSC, and eLEAF participated at the discussion table organised within the workshop and presented VitiGEOSS as a key research and innovation project in the agri-food sector, developing an innovative vineyard management tool based on Earth Observation services and in-field sensors.
The discussion also counted with the participation of representatives from FIRE, shaping the research and innovation strategy for Earth Obsevation in Europe through open dialogue with industry experts from focus sectors, SAFERS, aiming at creating an emergency management system for wildfires, Envision, aiming at delivering a toolbox of services for continuous and systematic monitoring of sustainable agricultural practice, Nextland, developing next generation land management services for agriculture and forestry and SusTunTech, mixting Coperincus data, machine learning, AI, etc. to improve energy saving for the tuna industry.
All projects presented, funded under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation Programme, shared their experience with the implementation of co-design approaches and the exploitation of the existing European platforms, to build on each other’s results.
As a continuation of this first collaboration activity, VITIGEOSS was invited to participate in the next EO-based solutions projects, within the 2021 edition of the EuroGEO workshop which will , be oganised by the European Commission and the French Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation on September 2021.

VitiGEOSS project presented at the European Food Forum 2020
2020-12-09
VitiGEOSS project has been presented during the event “EU research and innovation for the agrifood sector beyond 2020” held within the European Food Forum (EFF), celebrated online on December 9th.
Ferran Roure, researcher from the Robotics and Automation Unit of Eurecat, has presented VitiGEOSS during the session “Innovation in practice along the food supply chain”, as a key European project in agrifood sector, developing an innovative vineyard management solution based on Earth Obseervation services and in-field sensors.
During the session, Roure also presented IoECrops and Agrobofood, as two key agrifood research and innovation European projects participated by Eurecat.
The event, which counted with the presence of three MEPs, aimed at understanding the available toolbox under different agrifood EU programmes and showed some good examples of on-farm innovation to underline and discuss about the importance of cooperation between all the agrifood stakeholders.
The European Food Forum (EFF) aims to promote open dialogue on sustainable food systems amonb policymakers, food supply chain agents, civil society entities, research and academia institutions and other public organisations.

Eurecat brings VitiGEOSS at the “Fira de Novembre” online event
2020-11-06 - 2020-11-15
The VitiGEOSS project has been presented during the “Fira de Novembre de Vilanova i la Geltrú” online event which took place from 6th – 15th of November.
VitiGEOSS’s coordinator Eurecat presented the project as one of the key research and innovation projects in agri-food sector of the Technology Centre, developing an innovative vineyard management tool based on Earth Observation services and in-field sensors. On the other hand, Eurecat also presented the projects Grape, IoE Crops and Interacciona, promoting different innovative initiatives and solutions to facilitate the digitisation of the agricultural and livestock sectors.
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The Fira de Novembre online event has reunited more than 200 expositors from different economic and industry sectors and has carried out a total of 130 online activities, including project’s presentations, webinars, and training and consulting sessions, among others.

VitiGEOSS takes part in the e-shape project general assembly
2020-10-19 - 2020-10-21
VitiGEOSS project coordinator María Navarro from Eurecat Technology Center has presented the project at the e-shape project General Assembly celebrated in an online format between 19th – 21st October.
During the meeting, Mrs. Navarro gave a general overview about VitiGEOSS, explaining the main project’s objectives and the three different pilots, as well as the solution that will be developed and its expected results. The presentation also has shown the sustainable agriculture context and the importance of the use of satellite data on agriculture sector.
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e-shape European project coordinates multiple actors and activities with the objective to foster the economic sustainability of Earth Observation Services and to bring Copernicus and the Group of Earth Observations (GEO) closer together for the benefit of users such as decision-makers, citizens, the industry and the researchers.
