20.01.2025 Call-en
CROP MULTIPLE STRESSORS, PESTS AND DISEASES - EXPRO+
With this ITT ESA aims to start a project addressing scientific priorities and user needs related to agriculture. The focus is on monitoring of multiple stressors with a particular focus on crop pests and diseases. It aims at exploring and exploiting the huge synergistic opportunities offered by the increasing European EO capacity from space together with in situ observations, advanced models and novel technologies (AI, ICT, cloud computing and HPC) to increase scientific understanding of crop responses to multiple abiotic and biotic stress factors with a focus on pests and diseases.A main objective is to enhance methods, tools, monitoring systems and platforms for monitoring crops under multiple stressors with focus on identification, assessment and monitoring of pest and diseases.The project will contribute to the ESA-EC joint Earth System Science Initiative (ESSI). In this context the project shall link with relevant Horizon Europe projects, e.g. plant-health-related ESSI projects CERBERUS, STELLA and SYLVA, as well as infrastructure/scaling-related projects ScaleAgData and AgriDataValue.