The aim of the international event, which sees the participation of important companies and groups in the sector, is to explore the latest developments in the world of satellite applications, innovative technologies, the supply chain and investments.
In practice, three days of "space" events dedicated to space and innovation in strategic sectors. The Venetian event revolves around three different areas of study: the market and investment opportunities that favor the development of the aeronautical and space sectors; the space industry supply chain and satellite sector supply chains; the applications of space technologies in the agricultural sector.
Veneto Agricoltura will also be present at Space Meetings Veneto with its own exhibition space (Casa Veneto) and a specialist intervention by the expert Lorenzo Furlan on the use of satellites in agriculture.
After millennia of traditional agriculture, the use of satellites has allowed a real revolution in just a few years: precision agriculture is in fact the main "basic" innovation on which the various sectors of the agricultural sector of the future will develop.
Furlan's speech will therefore develop on these issues in the focus "Optimization of variable rate irrigation in crops. Integration of model and remote sensing data" .
The satellites allow the machines to know exactly their position and to evaluate the state of the land and crops, therefore being able to do the right thing (dose) for each point of the land, at any time, with the least possible movements. In other words, with the lowest consumption of energy and resources, since with precision agriculture it is possible to dose all the production factors: seed, fertilizers, pesticides and the precious water resource, providing the "plant-soil" ensemble with what what is needed at that moment and at that point. All this allows not only lower consumption and costs, but also a lower impact on the environment.
During his speech, Furlan will bring as concrete examples the experiences that Veneto Agricoltura is conducting at its pilot and demonstration farms (ValleVecchia of Caorle-Ve, Sasse Rami of Ceregnano-Ro, Diana of Mogliano Veneto-TV) where thanks to a A number of major European projects are testing and disseminating the benefits of satellite-based precision agriculture. In particular relating to the semi-automatic assisted satellite guide which allows the machines to precisely identify the routes to be taken and made, in such a way as to avoid overlaps and guarantee the correctness and greater efficiency of the lines of operations regardless of the operator. This technology determines an increase in the working capacity of the machines, a reduction in operator fatigue, a drastic reduction in diesel consumption and in the operating costs of the machines in general, a drastic reduction in overlapping and therefore a strong reduction in the waste of of production as well as the negative effects deriving from overdoses of the latter.
Another important type of advantage deriving from precision agriculture concerns the variable dosage of production factors which allow the input to be varied according to the needs of the crop and the characteristics of the soil. This allows for increased efficiency of production factors, less waste and therefore less pollution, maximization of yield. In this case, the machines dose the production factors (seed, fertilizers, pesticides, water, etc.) according to the position determined with satellite technologies.
