Preparing for the EU Soil Framework Directive by optimal use of Information and Communication Technology across Europe

Project information

Preparing for the EU Soil Framework Directive by optimal use of Information and Communication Technology across Europe

Call: Integrated ICT and automation for sustainable agricultural production

Id: 34780

Acronym: Predictor

Duration: 

22 March, 2011 to 21 March, 2013

Consortium:
No Partner Contact Country Total
1000€
Funded
1000€
Funder
1 Coord.Department of Agroecology
Aarhus University
Per SchjønningDenmark201.6175.6Danish AgriFish Agency
Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
2AgroTech A/SJørgen PedersenDenmark10.710.7Danish AgriFish Agency
Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
3Soil Fertility and Soil Protection
Natural Resources and Agriculture
Agricultural Economics and Engineering
Agroscope Reckenholz-Taenikon Research Station ART
Thomas KellerSwitzerland122.229.0Federal Office for Agriculture - Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft
4Agricultural Engineering
Technology & Food Science Unit
Institute for Agricultural and Fisheries Research (ILVO)
Matthias StettlerSwitzerland66.648.4Federal Office for Agriculture - Bundesamt für Landwirtschaft
5Department of Agricultural Sciences
University of Helsinki
Laura AlakukkuFinland120.059.9Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
6VTT Technical Research Centre of FinlandHarri LiljaFinland77.338.7Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry
7Soil Science Centre
Alterra Wageningen UR
Jan J.H. van den AkkerNetherlands9.00.0None
8University of Copenhagen
Henrik Breuning-MadsenDenmark13.413.4Danish AgriFish Agency
Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries
9University Halle - Institut of crop scienceOlaf ChristenGermany5.00.0None

Summary: 

The PredICTor project has two main deliverables, i) an online decision support tool for evaluating an intended field traffic situation for a given soil condition and with given machinery (for farmers and agricultural advisers), and ii) an online tool for creating European-wide maps of the wheel load carrying capacity, which is defined as the maximum wheel load the soil can carry at given soil moisture conditions and for a given tyre and tyre inflation pressure (for authorities / soil protection offices). For both of these ICT applications, we update state-of-the-art models for the soil compaction process and combine them with national and European databases on soil properties and (at national level) meteorological data.

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