ENABLE

In ENABLE, innovative management methods for arable land are being tested in order to increase the resilience of plants and soils and thus ensure the long-term productivity of agriculture even under changing climatic conditions.

Specifically, two different experiments will be used to test technologies in order to demonstrate the potential of sensor technology, robotics (especially in the area of hoeing technology), 5G networks and decentralized data processing on an edge cloud.

The central research question is:

How can the use of sensor technology, robotics, edge cloud technology and predictive models increase climate resilience in agriculture?

The first experiment deals with ridge cultivation technology, which enables the climate-resilient cultivation of maize, sunflowers, soybeans and sugar beet.

The second experiment promotes the exchange of knowledge between relevant stakeholders (research and companies). Because climatic changes and biodiversity are interrelated, systems for weed and plant detection and machine control are analyzed and compared in order to identify methods that help to reduce the use of pesticides on the one hand and to selectively preserve valuable arable weeds on the other.

The work in ENABLE is designed in such a way that the systems and technologies to be researched are considered from the following perspectives:

• Artificial intelligence and algorithms
• Sensor technology, data streams and platform integration
• Further development of decision-making systems (agricultural decision support systems)
• Implementation of experiments.