Agricultural and forest monitoring - precision farming


CUSTOMERS

Terrasystem worked for:

  • Stelliferi & Itavex s.p.a.
  • Assofrutti s.r.l.
  • Diprop-Universitą della Tuscia
  • Antinori Agricola s.r.l.
  • Consorzio Tuscania s.r.l.
  • CRA - Istituto Sperimentale per la cerealicoltura di Foggia
  • CNR Ibimet

TERRASYSTEM suggests solutions for organisations which are employed in the management of the natural environment and of the agricultural resources with a complete set of products and services that integrate the traditional systems of surveying with methodologies featuring a high technological content, based on aerial and satellite remote sensing and on modelling in GIS environment.

The solutions are applied to:

  • Monitoring of the agricultural productions and of the quality of the crops
  • Identifying of the crops, counting of the plants
  • Identifying and mapping of damaged areas
  • Identifying and mapping of forest phytopathologies
  • Monitoring of biotic and abiotic stress
  • Mapping of structural and biometric features of woodlands

METHODOLOGIES
Aerial and satellite remote sensing
TERRASYSTEM processes and uses data from both aerial and satellite remote sensing, having the necessary software for the geometric and radiometric corrections for every platform and for the classification of the images through hard and soft parametric and non-parametric (neural nets) models.
TERRASYSTEM acquires and processes its own very high resolution images by aerial sensors, designed ad hoc for agro-forest applications (DFR and ASPIS systems), installed on versatile and cheap aerial platforms.
Our systems allow for surveying both at a regional and at a local scale, and provide the detail required for even the most demanding applications, both in terms of spatial and temporal resolution, such as precision farming, and the survey of forest pathologies up to detailing the foliage of a specific tree.


GIS
The remote sensing data and the data retrieved from traditional systems of survey are the input for the analysis in GIS environment, carried out by advanced hardware and software tools.
Statistical analysis
Statistical analysis of historical series of geo-referenced environmental data, obtained by multispectral and multi-temporal remote sensing, acquired through field activity and/or coming from meteo stations, allows us to spot and to isolate the factors correlated with the studied phenomena.
Going into a more depth study, it is possible to achieve their modelling by means of regressive techniques and neural nets, with the final production of both spatial and temporal outputs.


WebGIS
TERRASYSTEM creates web-oriented information systems (WebGIS) to manage and share monitoring data through the internet, taking care of their installation and maintenance in a dedicated server.



Web-GIS of an integrated system of production forecasting






Monitoring of the chestnut ink desease