HARNESSING THE POWER
OF DIGITAL TECHNOLOGIES
TO PROTECT PLANTS & THE ENVIRONMENT
Digital technologies for plant health, early detection, territory surveillance & phytosanitary measures
STELLA aims to develop a holistic digital system (STELLA PSS) to aid in the early warning and detection of regulated pests together with a response strategy by using modern sensing technology and Artificial Intelligence.
The STELLA PSS will be tested over three years at field, farm and regional levels across 6 Use Case Pilots (UCPs) covering arable, orchard and vineyard crops as well as large, difficult to reach areas (forests). STELLA focuses on eight (8) different RNQP and quarantine diseases transmitted in a variety of ways, that expand across 4 European countries with different climate and geological characteristics and New Zealand. STELLA will perform capacity-building activities in order to equip farmers, agronomists, and stakeholders with the necessary skills to use the STELLA system and encourage them to adopt eco-friendly crop protection methods.
Policy recommendations generated through the STELLA PSS findings, will be targeted to policy makers and decision makers aiming to support the European Commission’s goals of reducing pesticide use, managing priority plant pest outbreaks and promoting digitalisation of EU agriculture and forestry. A networking strategy will be developed to exchange ideas, leverage existing knowledge and enable links with relevant organisations, citizens, networks, projects, and initiatives.
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Real Time Pest surveillance system with 3 subsystems
- Early warning system using novel forecasting models and IoT sensors.
- Pest detection system using drones, satellites, and a smartphone application.
- Pest response system providing data-driven recommendations for containment and counteractive measures.
Key objectives
Results
STELLA PSS
A real time pest and disease monitoring alert and response system.
E-learning platform
Multimodal platform offering free, online training material towards strengthening the capacities of stakeholders in adopting STELLA’s outputs.
Pest models
Fungal, Bacterial, Virus to be used across all UCPs.
AI models
For end-to-end data collection and estimation for pest detection and prediction.
USE CASE
PILOTS
UCPs tested across
Covering
of importance
to the EU