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Collaborative project: Sustainable protection and improvement of soil functions with intelligent land management strategies – a practical on the fly assistance system for farmers. Coordination (SOILAssist)
Project
Project code: TI-AT-08-PID1695
Contract period: 01.08.2015
- 31.07.2018
Purpose of research: Applied research
The SOILAssist project, organized as multidisciplinary, practice and basic principal orientated consortium, focus primarily on the prevention of negative changes in soil structure and functionality by agricultural machineries and the optimization of soil structure and functionality by optimizing field traffic, machinery specifications, management practices and application techniques. In the last years and decades the sizes and total weights of agricultural machinery increased more and more. This was primarily for economic and process-efficiency reasons. High specialized machinery requires high operating grades. In adverse conditions, considerable negative changes in soil structure and in multiple soil functions occur. Basically soil functions are affected negatively by intensive agricultural field traffic. Management based negative changes in soil functions still have negative effects on economic and ecological efforts and benefits. For using soils as a sustainable resource for bio-economic purposes (BonaRes), agricultural land use should put a focus on sustainable protection and improvement of soil functions, while keeping the economic conditions in mind. The SOILAssist consortium will put a holistic focus on this area of conflict. urveys of multiple passes of agricultural machineries at various points with different soil load in the field Route tracking of machineries on the field etc. Multi – Sensor - System measurements (deflection, track depth, total weight, inflation pressure, contact area etc.) Field measurements (penetration resistance, soil moisture, variation in the fields etc.) Soil surveys (undisturbed soil cores) Laboratory measurements (changes in soil functions) Soil modeling (3D – soil pressure , deformation and functionality model) Field demonstrations, thematic workshops Questionaires for farmers. Socio-economic assessments
Section overview
Subjects
- Agricultural Engineering Plant Production
- Soil science
- Process engineering
Funding programme
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Participating institutions
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Project management agencies
Associated projects: SOILAssist
- Collaborative project: Sustainable protection and improvement of soil functions with intelligent land management strategies – a practical on the fly assistance system for farmers. Subproject C
- Collaborative project: Sustainable protection and improvement of soil functions with intelligent land management strategies – a practical on the fly assistance system for farmers. Subproject B
