|
Role - Project |
Description |
Partners |
|
Work Package Leader in the FP7 project
E-AGRI (Crop Monitoring as an E-agriculture tool in
developing countries) (2011-2013). |
Development of advanced E-agriculture services in
developing countries, by means of crop monitoring. |
- VITO (Vlaamse Instelling voor Technologisch
Onderzoek, Belgium);
- Alterra (Wageningen University, The Netherlands);
- Joint Research Centre of the European Commission;
- INRA (Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Morocco);
- CAAS (Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences, China);
- APEI (Anhui Province Economic Institute, China);
- JAAS (Jiangsu Academy of Agricultural Science);
- DRSRS (Department of Resource Survey and Remote Sensing). |
|
Coordinator of the CropML-WOFOST project (Modular platform for plant modelling: the
WOFOST modelling approach implementation in the CropML component),
funded by the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission -
Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen
(2009-2010). |
The project was aimed at implementing the WOFOST
simulation model for potential and water limited crop growth and
development into the CropML model library (already including the
models WARM and CropSyst). |
|
|
Project Manager of the
lots V
and VI of the ASEMARS
project (Enlargement of the MARS Crop Yield Forecasting System),
funded by the European Commission (2005-2008). |
Lot V - CALPLAT - was aimed at
developing a platform for the automatic calibration of the
parameters of the crop simulation models used within the MARS
Crop Yield Forecasting System.
Lot VI - SANPLAT - was aimed
at developing a platform for running spatially distributed
sensitivity analyses of the models used within the MARS Crop
Yield Forecasting System. |
CALPLAT:
- Alterra (Wageningen University, The Netherlands);
- University of Liège (Arlon, Belgium);
- Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (Gembloux, Belgium);
- Plant Research International - Biometris (Wageningen
University, The Netherlands);
- GISAT (Praha, Czech Republic).
SAMPLAT:
- Geosys (Toulouse, France). |
|
Coordinator of the TOPFERT project
(Effect
of top-dressing nitrogen fertilization on radiation use
efficiency: physiology, crop modelling, remote sensing), funded by
the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen of
the European Commission (2006-2007). |
(i)
Analyzing and modelling the relationship between rice
radiation use efficiency and plant nitrogen concentration;
(ii) developing procedures for estimating rice nitrogen
concentration from satellite data;
(iii) developing the prototype of a new system for rice yield
forecast at European scale using results from (i) and (ii). |
- Department of Crop Production (University
of Milano, Italy);
- IREA-CNR, Institute for Electromagnetic sensing of Environment
(Milano, Italy). |
|
Project manager of the
RiceCrack project, funded by
the Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen of
the European Commission (2008) project. |
Developing a model for estimating the percentage of rice
affected by grain cracking because of adverse weather conditions
in the pre-harvest period. |
- Department of Crop Production (University
of Milano, Italy). |
|
Project Manager of the
MARS Rice Bulletins for Europe (launched in 2005),
China and India (launched in 2008); within the crop yield
forecasting activities of the Joint Research Centre of the
European Commission. |
Developing operational
systems to carry out rice yield forecast for Europe, China and
India. The systems are based on the WARM model for rice
simulations. |
The Projects' activities were
entirely carried out by the Agri4cast Action (Agriculture Unit,
Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Joint
Research Centre of the European Commission). |
|
Coordinator of the
WARM open research group on modelling rice-based cropping
systems, launched in 2005 and still active. |
Formalizing the knowledge on
the main processes (biotic and a-biotic) influencing rice yields
in a new model for paddy rice simulation. |
- Joint Research Centre of the
European Commission;
- Department of Crop Production (University
of Milano, Italy);
- Agriculture Research Council (Bologna, Italy);
- IREA-CNR, Institute for Electromagnetic sensing of Environment
(Milano, Italy);
- Department of
Terrestrial Ecology and Environment (Section of Mycology,
University of Pavia, Italy);
- Settore Fitosanitario della Regione Piemonte (Sezione
Agrometeorologia, Torino, Italy);
- Italian Association of Agrometeorology. |
|
Project Manager of the
CropML project (Crop Model Library), launched in 2008 and still active. |
Developing a software
component implementing different modelling solutions from
different generic and crop-specific crop models. |
- Joint Research Centre of the
European Commission;
- Agriculture Research Council (Bologna, Italy). |
|
Project Manager of the
AbioticDamage project, launched in 2008 and still active. |
Developing a software
component implementing different modelling solutions for the
simulation of the impact of different kinds of abiotic damages
on crop productions. |
- Joint Research Centre of the
European Commission;
- Agriculture Research Council (Bologna, Italy);
- Department of Crop Production (University of Milano, Italy). |
|
Project Manager of the
ClimIndices project, launched in 2007 and still active. |
Developing a software
component implementing several (currently 86) agro-climatic
indicators. |
- Joint Research Centre of the
European Commission;
- Agriculture Research Council (Bologna, Italy). |
