PARRA – “Plataforma integrAda de monitoRização e avaliação da doença da flavescencia douRada na vinhA” (Concluded Project)

Description:

The PARRA project aims to develop a set of technologies that contribute to increase the response capacity to the problem of Golden Flavescence (FD) in the vineyard. The impact of this disease is particularly aggressive, resulting in the uprooting of vines and the consequent reduction in production and economic capacity. The large-scale detection of the presence of this disease allows a greater capacity for response and intervention. It is in this context that the PARRA project will develop technologies for the automatic detection of the presence of FD in the vineyard, exploring different types of sensors on board unmanned aircrafts (UAVs) in order to provide faster and lower cost monitoring and data collection in the areas to be monitored. The collected data is then processed and with a set of analysis algorithms, algorithms to be developed in the project, the automatic detection of the places with higher probability of disease existence will be performed. All these processes and data are also integrated in an operations management platform where the data will be stored and the analysis processes executed automatically, generating the respective reports. Thus, the project aims to achieve an integrated solution with a pre-industrial technological maturity at the end of the project, allowing a rapid transition to the market. Complementing the operational objectives, the PARRA project bets on a solution design based on a set of capabilities that aim to maximize the impact of the results as the genesis of products and services of high added value for the market to explore, both nationally and internationally. Thus the technical approach of the project PARRA focuses on developing a solution Scalable in terms of its size and use by multiple stakeholders, Expandable to new future algorithms and sensors enabling the solution to a permanent evolution over time and the evolution of knowledge, Interoperable in order to provide different forms and interfaces with users regardless of technological platforms used, and Flexible providing a mechanism for managing the processes underlying the operational activities that, depending on the objective of the entity “stakeholder”, will easily allow the further development of future new capabilities for data analysis, (eg. time series, geographic, etc.) as well as interfaces with possible applications, already owned by stakeholders, in order to allow an effective integration of these applications with PARRA.

See more information at: https://www.cetrad.utad.pt/verprojecto/26

Partners:

Agri-Ciência, Consultores de Engenharia, Lda.
INIAV – Instituto Nacional de Investigação Agrária e Veterinária, I.P.
Instituto Politécnico de Viana do Castelo 
Tekever ASDS, Lda
UTAD – Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro