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Results Brochure Initiated by: #FarmingbySatellite Sponsored by: www.farmingbysatellite.eu Results Brochure Initiated by: Sponsored by: Table of Contents Introduction 03 The participant journey 04 Using European satellite technologies to improve agriculture Meet the start-ups 06 and reduce environmental impact European Prizes The 2020 edition of the Farming by Satellite Prize has GNSS is a key enabler of precision agriculture, allowing officially come to an end. This year, we celebrate the farmers to operate machinery along parallel lines, avoid Graniot – Winner 07 fifth edition and looking back at the numerous ideas overlaps and gaps in field cultivation, and reduce their submitted, we see a thriving entrepreneurial ecosystem fatigue thanks to satellite-enabled autopilot. GNSS also Genuine – 2nd place 08 building around satellite technology enabled solutions helps to reduce agriculture’s ecological footprint. In for sustainable agriculture in both Europe and Africa. particular, the satellite programmes play a crucial role rd Ai4ocean farming – 3 place 09 in the Common Agricultural Policy, delivering significant Innovation is crucial for the growth and sustainability added value for farmers, the institutions involved and Harvesting Prizes – grand finalist 10 of the agricultural sector and enables the response society at large. Leveraging this innovation potential for RVRI – grand finalist 11 to emerging global challenges such as the rise of the society and encouraging this type of strong innovative global population and the impact of climate change. thinking from the next generation are key motivators for The Farming by Satellite Prize is designed to encourage setting up this competition. Special Africa Prize young professionals, farmers, and students in Europe to create new, sustainable, and environmentally friendly The competition is a joint initiative by the European GeoM&E – Winner Special 12 solutions using Copernicus, EGNOS and Galileo. GNSS Agency (GSA), the agency of the European Union Baobab – grand finalist 13 (EU) managing Europe’s satellite navigation systems, Europe’s flagship space programmes – EGNOS, Galileo EGNOS and Galileo, and the European Environment Herdsassist – grand finalist 14 and Copernicus – serve very different functions. EGNOS Agency (EEA). The 2020 edition was also supported and Galileo provide users with high accuracy positioning by industry partners with the sponsorship of CLAAS, Judges 15 and navigation, whereas the Copernicus programme a manufacturer of agri cultural engineering equipment. analyses and provides the characteristics of a given area on the Earth using remote sensing. These programmes We wish the best success to all the participants, finalists create an array of opportunities for new applications and grand finalists who participated in the prize this and business ideas individually, but perhaps their true year and we encourage all future participants to take potential is found within their synergies. advantage of this unique opportunity. Joaquín Reyes González Market Development Technology Officer European GNSS Agency The participant journey A total prize pool of €10,000 was up for grabs st The submission 1 - €5,000 nd process 2 - €3,000 3rd - €1,000 Special Africa Prize - €1,000 1 Register Who? 2 Submit Innovators under the age xxxxxxx your idea of 32 residing in Europe or Africa. Applicants can be individuals or 4 in teams of up to Special Pitch live to 4 people Africa Prize 3 the jury Returning in 2020, Deep dive into When? this special prize was awarded to the best your ideas Applications idea looking to were open from improve agriculture 16th March to in or for Africa. 30th June 2020 Awards farmingbysatellite.eu 5ceremony One third of the water used in Europe goes to the agricultural sector and in Spain the percentage rises to almost 80%. Much of Winner this water is wasted and contaminated by bad fertilising practices. Graniot offers a Satellite crop solution to farmers and agronomists to lower monitoring the amount of wasted water through its web application. This app performs a weekly Team monitoring of crop parameters such as vigour, Pablo Romero Díaz chlorophyll, and water stress using satellite Manuel Castro Ruíz data. Graniot uses Copernicus Sentinel-1 and -2 data to obtain vegetation indices for the HQ different crops. To improve the accuracy of Granada, Spain their geolocation system they use the EGNOS Open Service. This also makes it possible for Website link their customers to upload georeferenced graniot.com information such as documents and photos through the web application. Finally, other Earth observation data from agroclimatic stations as well as private data from farmers’ IoT sensors is combined into the Graniot package. Pablo Romero Díaz is co-founder and CEO of Graniot. He is a telecommunications engineer working on the customer side and the back- end application of the project. Manuel Castro Ruíz is the other co-founder and CTO of Graniot. He is a telecommunications engineer in charge of the business and Graniot’s front- end application. Both Team are passionate about using technology to benefit people, and Manuel even owns some olive trees that he can test new technology on. They started Graniot as a company focused on IoT sensors, but when they found out how Copernicus data could benefit them, they pivoted their business model from software and hardware to only software based. Their vision is to encourage more sustainable agriculture in southern Graniot’s Web Application European countries by giving technology to small and medium sized farmers. Current studies agree that the need for food The Food and Agriculture Organisation of and resources will increase by 70% before the United Nations (FAO) estimates that nd rd 2 2050, underlining the importance of innovative, 3 35% of fish and seafood from fisheries and place sustainable, and more productive agricultural place aquaculture is wasted. This waste is caused Optimising tractor practises. Genuine is a web application that by conditions such as harmful algal blooms, combines Copernicus data and EGNSS signals Using satellite ocean acidification, harsh weather conditions, navigation route into a unique platform that optimises fertilising data for ocean and ocean litter pollution. With this in mind, and irrigation practises. Copernicus Sentinel-2 AI4OceanFarming has come up with a solution Team data is used to assess crop health, perform farming to improve the performance of fish farms Valeria Belloni crop border detection, and generate maps. and minimise waste. They combine earth Virginia Coletta The specialised maps identify the most water Team observation (EO) and artificial intelligence to Marco Fortunato stressed areas on a field, as well as the optimal Eva Fernández study the feasibility of establishing an ocean Michela Ravanelli tractor path for fertilising or irrigating. Once Rodríguez farming system that is connected by satellites. the optimal route is defined, the farmer is Zahra Okba Additionally, they are using it to already identify HQ guided using GNSS technology and the GNSS Elisée Tchana hazards and threats to ocean fish farms. In this Rome, Italy POWER (Positioning and Variometric Velocities way, AI4OceanFarming can obtain accurate Estimation in Real-time) algorithm. The GNSS HQ farm positions and information about water processing is executed real-time in the cloud Madrid, Spain parameters for the farmers. The analysis is using the web application. The integration of done by merging different input data sources: Galileo with the other GNSS systems ensures satellite data from Copernicus constellations, more redundancy, robustness and accuracy in GNSS data, Mercator-ocean, the European Genuine’s solution. Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecasts (ECMWF); on-site data from IoT devices, and The team is composed of four PhD students their own specialised databases. at the Geodesy and Geomatics Division of Sapienza University of Rome. Valeria Belloni The team is composed by Eva Fernández and Virginia Coletta are currently working Rodríguez, GNSS engineer and project manager, on remote sensing and photogrammetric Zahra Okba, a PhD student in oceanography techniques involving deep learning approaches. and the data manager, and Elisée Tchana, data Valeria deals with geohazard and infrastructure scientist, GIS/Remote sensing expert, Drone monitoring, and Virginia is involved in studies on pilot and IoT developer. They all share the same the topic of hydrogeological risk assessments passion and determination for the ocean and for for cultural heritages. Their team members, making a difference in the ocean farming sector Marco Fortunato and Michela Ravanelli, are by encouraging sustainable fishing. They believe deeply involved in GNSS data processing. Marco that by improving equal access to EO and quality works on the improvement of GNSS real-time data for farmers, ocean farming can increase navigation while Michela is focused on the food security and minimise overexploitation of application of GNSS seismology and ionosphere the ocean’s resources. Their goal is to increase sounding. The team came up with the idea the success rate and performance of this sector, for Genuine because they wanted to create with the overarching hope of tackling several Genuine’s unique selling points a solution that would have a high, positive Working towards a better world by encouraging ocean farming objectives of the sustainable development impact on the environment. goals (SDGs) for 2030. The ability to detect the individual fertiliser
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