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OBJECTIVES

General objective

The general objective of WHEATWATCHER is to develop and implement an integrated soil monitoring system to assess soil nutrients status and chemical and biological stressors affecting and/or contaminating wheat grains from at-field growing stage to flour production in various regions across Europe, which will provide a management and decision tool for the farmers, mill owners and policy makers to guarantee quality and safe food production.

Specific objectives

Develop a comprehensive data acquisition and sensing ecosystem, illustrated by WHEATWATCHER’s four sensing platforms, allowing to collect a complete set of data of a desired field.

Acquiring quality data on cause-and-effect of various stressors (nutrients, biological, chemical) in soil contaminating wheat crops under a glasshouse environment and developing a look-up-table to monitor the crops during the growing seasons.

Create a web cloud-based platform that seamlessly records, stores and merges soil and plant-related data to empower users with comprehensive insights into the health and contaminant status of their soil/crop.

Perform an efficient and automated prediction of soil health status and mapping of sampling coordinates.

Develop a DSS integrating the data from the glasshouse experiments and chemometrics models with a regionally adapted and operational crop growth model for recording, analysing, and decision-making on soil and crop management under multiple types of stress conditions.

Demonstrating the WHEATWATCHER monitoring systems under various nutrients management, and biotic and abiotic stress conditions in wheat production at real-field environments.

Allowing the tracking of the path of contaminants in wheat from point of origin throughout the production and processing stages to guarantee food safety and prevent possible quality degradations, aligning with the EU’s food safety policy.

Foster an innovative infrastructure enabling the communication and exploitation of the WHEATWATCHER results across the European soil-food nexus and supporting the up-scaling of the proposed solutions.

Develop a comprehensive data acquisition and sensing ecosystem, illustrated by WHEATWATCHER’s four sensing platforms, allowing to collect a complete set of data of a desired field.

Acquiring quality data on cause-and-effect of various stressors (nutrients, biological, chemical) in soil contaminating wheat crops under a glasshouse environment and developing a look-up-table to monitor the crops during the growing seasons.
Create a web cloud-based platform that seamlessly records, stores and merges soil and plant-related data to empower users with comprehensive insights into the health and contaminant status of their soil/crop.
Perform an efficient and automated prediction of soil health status and mapping of sampling coordinates.
Develop a DSS integrating the data from the glasshouse experiments and chemometrics models with a regionally adapted and operational crop growth model for recording, analysing, and decision-making on soil and crop management under multiple types of stress conditions.
Demonstrating the WHEATWATCHER monitoring systems under various nutrients management, and biotic and abiotic stress conditions in wheat production at real-field environments.
Allowing the tracking of the path of contaminants in wheat from point of origin throughout the production and processing stages to guarantee food safety and prevent possible quality degradations, aligning with the EU’s food safety policy.
Foster an innovative infrastructure enabling the communication and exploitation of the WHEATWATCHER results across the European soil-food nexus and supporting the up-scaling of the proposed solutions.
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