The newsletter provides an update on the FOODIE project, which is developing a cloud-based platform to provide agricultural services using open data. It is entering its last year. Updates include: the project is making progress on technical results and pilots; a memorandum of understanding was signed with three other projects around data sharing and management; and upcoming events where FOODIE will be presented are listed.

1. contact@foodie-project.eu
Issue 6 (February 2016)
FOODIE Newsletter
FOODIE Team'scorner
Dear Members of FOODIE Community,
FOODIE project is going to enter in the last year of its schedule. This sixth issue covers the period from November
2015 to February 2016 and give evidence of the more mature technical results and progress in pilot sites.
In addition, you are provided with an overview of the upcoming events and a brief summary of the past events
where the FOODIE Team presented the project. We hope you find the information interesting and would
appreciate your feedback.
ABOUT FOODIE
FOODIE is a co-funded research project within the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the
Competitiveness and Innovation Framework Programme (CIP). The project is dedicated to the creation of a cloud-based
platform providing agri-food stakeholders with agricultural services based on open data.
FOODIE investigates the opportunity to (re)use open data in the agricultural sector to create new applications and
services that provide added value to different stakeholder communities. In the FOODIE planning, three pilots have been
designed in order to demonstrate the objectives and achievements of the project:
 Pilot 1: Precision Viticulture (Spain).
 Pilot 2: Open Data for Strategic and Tactical planning (Czech Republic).
 Pilot 3: Technology allows integration of logistics via service providers and farm management including traceability
(Germany).
The project lifetime is 36 months; it started on 1 March 2014 and will be completed on 28 February 2017. The FOODIE
consortium comprises 12 organisations from 7 countries.
Memorandum of Understanding between FOODIE and OTN,
SDI4Apps and ECIM signed!
FOODIE Team is proud to announce you that a new cooperation
has been established with three projects co-funded by the
European Union under the ICT Policy Support Programme, as
part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Programme, namely:
 OTN – OpenTransportNet (http://www.opentnet.eu/otn/)
 SDI4Apps - Uptake of Open Geographic In-formation Through Innovative Services Based on Linked Data
(http://sdi4apps.eu/)
 ECIM - European Cloud Marketplace for Intelligent Mobility (http://www.ecim-cities.eu/)
This collaborative relationship was formalised on 31.01.2016 through the signature of a Memorandum of Understanding.
It establishes joint provisions for speeding up the process of data harmonisation for the mutual benefit of the four
Projects. This will be achieved through two key activities: geographic data sharing and technological development for
data management. This MoU enters into force today and ends on 1 February 2017. To explore the key points of the
signed MoU, please follow this link: http://www.foodie-project.eu/news-zoom.php?id=49

2. FOODIE’s contribution to OGC Blog
We are proud to announce that FOODIE contribution was published on OGC (Open Geospatial Consortium) blog. OGC is
an international not for profit organization dedicated to making quality open standards for the global geospatial
community. OGC standards are implemented in various fields: Environment, Agriculture, Meteorology, Defense, Health,
and Sustainable Development, just to mention some of them.
MapLog Agri – the new integrated hardware (monitoring unit) and software system developed in the framework of the
Czech Pilot - and the entire FOODIE platform implement the OGC Sensor Web Enablement (SWE), Web Map Service
(WMS), and Web Feature Service (WFS) standards and other open standards.
An important part of FOODIE support to GEOSS (Global Earth Observation System of Systems) is the development and
testing of standards based technology for the regular monitoring of agricultural machinery.
The primary aim of such standardization is to achieve modules that may be integrated into any application that
implements the same standards, such as other GEOSS applications. The FOODIE platform is a part of the GEOSS AIP-8
(Architecture Implementation Pilot 8). AIP-8 aims to develop and deploy easy-to-use online (Web and Mobile) apps that
demonstrate the value of standards-based access to Earth observation data and services registered with GEOSS. One of
the AIP-8 target areas is Agriculture and Water pollution. Please follow this link to learn more: http://www.foodie-
project.eu/news-zoom.php?id=42
PILOT EXECUTION PROGRESS
Spanish Pilot
The Spanish Pilot continues its development
according to the schedule. The pilot is related
with precision viticulture, and its main
objectives are to improve the quality of the
grapes, and to increase the economic
benefits, reducing the environmental impact.
The execution is progressing quite well. In
early December CTIC finished the first
version of the mobile App for the Spanish
Pilot. With this App, the winegrowers are
able to consult the treatments for each land
parcel and to register geo-located
annotations and issues detected at the
vineyard, and attach to them video, photos
and voice notes. The App also notifies the
winegrower about phytosanitary alerts and
other kind of notifications that require a quick response. All the functionality of
the App is provided by the services developed by Seresco from the beginning of the first
stage of the Pilot.
On the other hand, the delimitation of zones of land that share similar properties is key to site-specific treatments and
to address the soil variability. In this regard, Seresco is developing a clustering algorithm that works with satellite
imagery with the aim of identifying homogenous areas of land. The experimental results obtained with the Terras
Gauda’s vineyards are being very promising. The following picture shows the clustering of one of the land parcels of
Terras Gauda. In this case, the algorithm identified ten homogenous zones, each one labelled with its corresponding
number.
Czech pilot
Czech partners have finalised the Farming Portal based on the common data model for geographic data used for
farming and their attributes. It is available at http://foodie-data.wirelessinfo.cz where data can be visualized,
downloaded and reused. The background maps include OpenStreetMap and ortophotomaps of the Czech Republic
including data from Land Parcel Identification System. The main application data include data sensed from tractors
used by farmers. Special units installed on each tractor are able to send data to the central portal and usable by farmer
to make further analyses before taking a decision. Therefore, supporting Farmer in their daily decision-making
processes, the optimisation of machinery efficiency, reduction of costs and increase of yields are secured.

3. During the last period the Czech partners progressed with scenario Telematics of Farm Machinery. Machinery data has
been collected for almost one year on the test farm and the data collection will proceed further. In parallel with data
collection, Wirelessinfo has been focused on development of functions for evaluation of economic efficiency of
machinery use as well as on development of API enabling to interact with these functions through Web-based user
interface. To obtain results the functions are using positions and observations from farm machinery in relation with
other data sets. Currently the Czech LPIS has been used and we are planning to add other data sets in the future.
Wirelessinfo is also working on obtaining aggregated information from machinery tracking and transforming this
information into corresponding parts of FOODIE Data Model. This transformation will enable more efficient interactions
with other data sets and FOODIE services. At the beginning of this year first internal version of machinery telematics
application has been introduced to end-users at the pilot farm level.
Part of the work on Czech pilot was dedicated to the procedures for identification of yield potential zones by satellite
imagery, which can be later used as basis for the variable application of fertilizers and other site specific crop
management treatments.
To make this estimation, time series of Landsat TM and OLI images for the recent 8 years have been used, together
with field boundaries defined by Czech LPIS. Yield potential is then calculated from the spatial variability of crop within
each field based on the Enhanced Vegetation Index (EVI) and classified into zones by 5% interval. An example of yield
potential zones in the Czech pilot farm Trsicka zemedelska a.s. is shown in Figure below (Production zones in % - value
Low 60 - value High 135).

4. German Pilot
The German pilot focuses on demonstrating how to upgrade logistics with (possibly open) data the as the agro-chain-
partners cooperation model (farmer, cooperatives, food/feed-industry, machine service providers, transport partners
work together). PROGIS integrated Orthoimages (Microsoft 25 cm certified by EC/JRC-Ispra) which represent an
essential tool and base map that allow logistics actors to understand place (where), action (what), and how to reach a
specific field. Moreover, PROGIS incorporated on top of the orthoimage the government developed LPIS (Land Parcel
information System) data, which are used for the subsidy calculation taking into account the size of the field.
(Ortho-)Images are of outmost importance in rural areas since road-network does not exist and rural road in principle is
a working place that can be occupied by other farmers who have the right to work there.
The collected data (Orthoimages and LPIS) have been implemented on 32 servers, one per machine cooperative that is
linked to around 40.000 farmers. Next step consist in integrating the cadastre data and install it on the FOODIE server
to show that one server could manage all needs.
From spring 2016, PROGIS will link its farm management-system and the embedded expert data set on the FOODIE
platform. This will allow communication of farmer´s contracts via the FOODIE server directly to the mobile device on
the tractor or other agro machines. PROGIS will build a database that allows holding and disseminating expert models
for agriculture (later for forestry, environment and risk management) that can be setup by local experts wherever these
experts are located on the world.
FOODIE is supporting the Baltic Open (Geo) Data Hackathon
16–18 March 2016, Riga Latvia
FOODIE, SDI4Apps and OpenTransportNet projects are looking for developers, data
specialists and users from different fields (for a complete list, please click here: ) to
create new data, software, apps, or visualizations capitalizing on the potential of
open (geo) data.
Provide your proposals/expectations for the hackathon! Identify possibilities of open (geo) data exploitation, pitch new
ideas, promote your data, re-use available open (geo) data & software technologies, and meet new people and spent
three wonderful days in Riga!
Click here to learn more: http://www.foodie-project.eu/news-zoom.php?id=51
Participation at the hackathon is free of charge, but you have to register. Please click the following link and complete
the registration form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-2Of11brDDbBmIFCDs7-Fxa_JxIrfB6Ioce8ngrMkJE/viewform?c=0&w=1
FOODIE Synergies
FOODIE partners continuously focus efforts on creating and establishing synergies with other projects and initiatives,
related to the topics addressed by the project.
In the last period FOODIE established synergies with FATIMA project (FArming Tools for external nutrient In-puts and
water MAnagement) funded under the European Framework Programme for the Research and Innovation (Horizon
2020) in response to the call "Sustainable Food Security (H2020-SFS-2014-2), Topic: External nutrient inputs. FATIMA
addresses effective and efficient monitoring and management of agricultural resources to achieve optimum crop yield
and quality in a sustainable environment. Common interest among FOODIE and FATIMA projects are:
- Satellite imagery
- Farm data
- FOODIE components APIs for integration with FATIMA platform.
Moreover, a new cooperation is going to be established with CAPSELLA (Collective Awareness Platform for
Environmentally-sound Land Management based on Data Technologies and Agrobiodiversity) funded under Horizon
2020 in response to the call H2020-ICT-10-2015 “Collective Awareness Platforms for Sustainability and Social
Innovation”. CAPSELLA is organising a workshop on 30 -31 May 2016 in Volterra (Pisa), Italy to bridge EU farmers to
collect and understand their ICT needs and requirements. It will be the occasion to present FOODIE results and use
cases and while rising awareness on the importance of collecting and sharing open data and knowledge on agro-
management.

5. FOODIE joined Agritechnica 2015
10 – 14 November 2015, Hannover, Germany. The world’s largest agricultural trade show. PROGIS took part as
exhibitor and presented also FOODIE as a future platform. During the show around 250 individual talks were done to
present FOODIE benefits for potential customers.
World GIS Day 2015 hosted FOODIE presentation
18 November 2015, Ankara, Turkey. Effective usage of GIS and several applications on land usage is discussed.
FOODIE project has been presented with agricultural data processing opportunities.
FOODIE appeared at Conference "Inspirujme se"
24 - 25 November 2015, Bratislava, Slovakia. Annual Czech and Slovak conference dedicated to the applications
following INSPIRE Directive (2007/2/EC), WIRELESSINFO presented the INSPIRE-compliant data model and
application programming interfaces developed within the FOODIE project. About 200 attendees from public
administration, industry and academia of the Czech and Slovak Republic; representatives of the European
Commission and European Environmental Agency were there.
FOODIE workshop addressed to an international audience in New Dehli, India
EU-INDIA FI-Media & Unnat Bharat Abhiyan cluster to cluster (C2C) workshop on smart village ecosystems
18 December 2015. The purpose of the workshop was brainstorming from the perspectives of both EU and India to
develop clarity on various research and innovation challenges and potential solutions related to the development of
'Smart Villages', including Pilots and particularly in Agriculture. Participants shared their ideas including relevant
smart technologies, existing initiatives, studies, or projects underway in this area, and potential applications/ pilots
and challenges for wider replications. This event enables international dissemination of FOODIE activities to different
stakeholders in the agriculture sector, for the exploitation and replication of project results beyond Europe. About 50
participants, mostly from India.
FOODIE workshop in Europe’s Opportunity in Digital Agriculture
14 January 2016, Brussels, Belgium. Workshop aimed to bring together leaders from Agriculture and ICT to identify
common opportunities leading to the development of a national strategy for growing an export-focused Digital
Agriculture industry. Ideal place to disseminate FOODIE results, as included multiple stakeholders from the
agriculture sector as well as representatives of the EU policy makers. There were about 100 participants including
policy makers, thought-leaders, academics and industry experts.
FOODIE co-organized the Workshop "Open data as opportunity for commercial sector"
18 January 2016, Prague, Czech Republic. The primary aim of the event was to introduce running European projects
dealing with support of open(ing) (geo) data. Assoc. Prof. Tomáš Řezník (WRLS) introduced FOODIE project as a new
platform for precision agriculture. Integrating open and commercial data into one unified user-oriented portal
FOODIE satisfies daily needs of farmers; from reference data (cadastral maps, aerial images, LPIS) through telemetry
of machinery to application of fertilizers and pesticides. The event was closed with the round table discussions on the
topic “Will we initiate the Czech public-private partnership for open data?” that involved users, researchers and
developers of open data for a wide variety of applications. Almost 150 registered users from the Czech Republic:
starting from ministries, through environmental agencies, public bodies, universities, experts to industry, WRLS has
established cooperation with experts from industry, e.g. developers of UAV technologies for precision agriculture.
FOODIE at the Expertise Seminar “The effective path to high yields”.
5 February 2016, Litovel, Czech Republic. The expertise seminar dealt with the current editing in the field of the
European agricultural legislation. The discussion was dedicated to the news from the space of information
technologies and possibilities of their using for farmers. This last topic rotated around the partial outputs of the
Czech pilot programme of FOODIE project. Indeed, it is devoted to the open data use by the farmer community,
especially via smart mobile applications. The seminar was attended by 105 farmers from the Olomouc and Litovel
regions, Czech Republic.
FOODIE attended the Joint Workshop on “Open Data for Local and Regional Development”
17 February 2016, Klatovy, Czech Republic. Tomáš Řezník from the Masaryk University and the living lab WirelessInfo
presented some of the results from the FOODIE project. Optimisation was the key word of Tomáš’s message to the
audience. Since FOODIE focuses on how open grographical data can help farmers to monitor and plan their yields,
including precise use of fertilisers, management of machinery and increasing its efficiency, Tomáš presented the
common data model for geographic data used for farming and their attributes. Farming portal based on this data
model is available at http://foodie-data.wirelessinfo.cz.

6. UPCOMING EVENTS
FOODIE Team will be presenting the project at the following events:
 16 - 18 March 2016, Baltic Open (Geo) Data Hackhathon, Riga (RTU Kipsala), Latvia
 30-31 May 2016, Capsella project 1st
Workshop, Volterra, Pisa, Italy
 22 – 24 June 2016, AgriFutureDays 2016, Villach, Austria
 12 - 19 July 2016, Conference ISPRS, Prague, Czech Republic
 15 - 17 July 2016, Med Open Data Hackathon, Patras, Greece
 31 July – 3 August 2016, 13th International Conference on Precision Agriculture, St. Luis, United States of
America
 14-16 September 2016, ENVIROINFO, Berlin, Germany
 26 - 30 September 2016, INSPIRE 2016, Barcelona, Spain
 3 - 6 October 2016, ISAF 2016, Pilsen, Czech Republic
PUBLIC DELIVERABLES
Check the FOODIE repository out which gathers all the project public deliverables. To learn more, please click the
following link: http://www.foodie-project.eu/downloads.php?idc=5
Join FOODIE on Twitter, Facebook, slideshare and LinkedIn and share your comments and opinions with us!
Are you interested in getting involved within FOODIE project? Do you see an interesting connection between FOODIE
and your sector or your team? Write us and we will explore the opportunity to collaborate.
Should you be interested in receiving further information about the project to forward and hand out to interested
parties, please let us know and we will provide you with a brief presentation.
Learn about the project’s goal, its background and its strategy and download the FOODIE Flyer in:
English Spanish German Italian Polish Czech Turkish Latvian Portuguese
Please disseminate this newsletter amongst your potentially interested colleagues and networks.
This project is partially funded under the ICT Policy Support Programme (ICT PSP) as part of the Competitiveness and Innovation Framework
Programme by the European Commission under grant agreement no. 621074
If you do not want to receive this newsletter from FOODIE project in the future, please unsubscribe writing to contact@foodie-project.eu