SQAT

SQAT is a 3.5-year project, funded under the Horizon Europe Programme, that focuses on Implementing Smart Farming Applications using EO Data, Soil Sensors & Robotics.

MAIN OBJECTIVES:
- Improving access to better soil data in agriculture and leveraging its use to make farming more efficient and profitable.
- Combining advanced technologies to ensures accuracy, quality, and cost-effectiveness of high-resolution soil data (this includes the unique benefits of Copernicus and Galileo satellite data).
- Using novel data we produce to enable new precision agriculture applications.
- Creating and bringing to market project results.

Variable rate liming: Calculate precise liming needs in different field zones and apply lime in different quantities for each zone to meet needs.

Variable rate macronutrient fertilisation: Automate on-field soil properties testing for select macronutrients to automate/optimise mapping operations.

Variable rate seeding: Seeding density tailored according to different soil properties across a field, minimising seed costs and promoting individual plant yield & yield quality.

Variable depth tillage: To avoid soil compaction and optimise fuel efficiency, subsoiling is performed only where needed and at the correct depth.

Carbon farming MRV solution: Estimation of soil carbon at a high resolution and accuracy to create a science-based, practical, and affordable approach to monitoring, reporting and verification of carbon in farm soils.