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Lobelia.AgroClimate

Lobelia.AgroClimate platform for Soil Moisture Monitoring and Climate Risk Assessment data is a comlete digital solution designed for agriculture and environmental management. It addresses the critical issue of drought by delivering soil monitoring.

High precision soil moisture monitoring and climate assessment
The platform is highly customizable and scalable to any agricultural needs. It can be tailored to specific crop types, soil conditions, and climatic zones.
The platform presents a user-friendly interface, ensuring ease of adoption by local farmers, regardless of their technical expertise.

Our innovation addresses climate-related hazards such as heavy precipitation/pluvial floods, droughts, and multi-hazard scenarios. It is designed to solve specific problems including:

- Optimizing irrigation strategies to improve crop yield and conserve water
- Monitoring drought and enabling proactive measures
- Enhancing sustainable water resource management in agriculture
- Supporting adaptation of agricultural practices to climate change

By tackling these issues, our innovation aims to build resilience in agricultural systems, ensuring efficient water use and better crop management in the face of climate challenges.

TRL7. Integrated pilot system demonstrated
Lobelia Earth’s operational platforms, which include both soil moisture monitoring and climate risk assessment platforms, have reached an advanced stage of maturity, individually aligning with TRL 9. Each component has been thoroughly tested and validated in operational environments, demonstrating reliability and accuracy across various geographical landscapes and climatic conditions. This paper shows an evaluation study of our algorithm compared with in situ data: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0034425712004324Additionally, FAO currently uses Lobelia’s operational Soil Moisture service and viewer for the Locust Hub warning portal: https://locust-hub-hqfao.hub.arcgis.com/pages/lobelia-viewer For Lobelia.AgroClimate platform, our focus is on integrating these two mature systems into a cohesive visualization platform. The integration of both modules itself is the primary development needed, as it aims to integrate the soil moisture and climate risk data for a comprehensive user experience. This integration requirement makes our solution currently TRL 7 as it requires combining both front-end operational systems in a single visualization platform. The visualization platform will be a variant of our existing Jesac platform which features Biomass, Soil Moisture and climate indicators at the plot level: https://jesac-pau-lobeliaearth-lobelia-team.vercel.app/offsetting?plot=6e578115-ddfb-4d65-ad99-e2f6eb630e79

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The system’s main components have been individually tested, and an initial integration has been completed.

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Lobelia Earth’s platform aligns with “Digital Adaptation” through its development and integration of digital technologies specifically tailored for the agricultural sector. It offers advanced monitoring tools that utilise satellite data and algorithms to provide farmers with timely and accurate data, as well as climate risk data to assess future crop suitability. This information is crucial for making informed decisions regarding irrigation timing, crop selection, and other climate-related activities. Additionally, the platform serves as a Decision Support System, helping farmers optimize their resource use and mitigate risks associated with climate variability.
In terms of “Technological Integration”, Lobelia Earth’s platform is specifically designed to incorporate satellite data from missions such as SMOS (Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity) and SMAP (Soil Moisture Active Passive). This integration allows for a detailed analysis of past and current climate conditions and future climate risks by combining historical observations from satellite data, resulting in a detailed screening of future climate risks in these areas.

Soil moisture disaggregation algorithm was developed by the team at isardSAT and Lobelia to increase soil moisture spatial resolution to 1 Km (Escorihuela et al. 2016), and further improved to resolutions up to 20m (Ohja et al 2021, Paolini et al. 2022) by our scientific team. This has been developed in the frame of several R&D projects co-funded by ESA and EC. On the other hand, the climate risk assessment platform has been developed internally using internal R&D funds and with the contribution of some EC projects such as GLORIOUS, MIRACA, IMPETUS, etc. Both platforms are now fully operational and have been successfully deployed in various contexts. In both cases, the IPRs are owned by Lobelia. There is no partnership agreement with any other third party.

Lobelia’s Soil Moisture product is based on a disaggregation algorithm which takes coarser-resolution input soil moisture from the SMAP and SMOS satellite missions, and converts it into a high resolution product by using Land Surface Temperature and Vegetation information from high resolution satellite missions such as MODIS, Sentinel-3, Landsat and Sentinel-2.The results of this data processing may be affected in regions with persistent cloud cover, where the effectiveness of multi-spectral data is significantly reduced as clouds obstruct the earth’s surface view. This limitation has a higher impact for high-resolution data retrieval, as the opportunity to capture clear images is less frequent, leading to gaps in data or delays in obtaining timely soil moisture information. On the other hand, strong radio frequency interference, such as emissions from radar installations, broadcast stations, or other telecommunication devices, could impact the performance of these satellites used in soil moisture monitoring. These interferences are typically more pronounced in or near urban areas or regions with dense telecommunications networks. However, in the context of agricultural applications, particularly in rural areas where such emissions are less prevalent, the impact of these interferences might be considerably reduced. In the case of Sardinia, these limitations are less likely to affect the effectiveness of the product, as it is a rural area and the mediterranean weather in this area is favorable for remote sensing, and our methodology has been broadly validated for this region.

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