@inproceedings{Casteleyn2014,

title = {How Earth Observation, Crop Modeling and ICT tools can help rice cultivation : the ERMES project},

author = {Sven Casteleyn and Carlos Granell-Canut and Sergio Trilles-Oliver and Joaquín Huerta-Guijarro and Mirco Boschetti and Lorenzo Busetto and Monica Pepe and Dimitrios Katsantonis and Roberto Confalonieri and Francesco Holecz and Javier García-Haro and Ioannis Gitas},

editor = {Joaquín Huerta-Guijarro and Sven Schade and Carlos Granell-Canut},

url = {http://hdl.handle.net/10234/99570},

isbn = {978-90-816960-4-3},

year  = {2014},

date = {2014-01-01},

booktitle = {Connecting a Digital Europe through Location and Place. Selected best short papers and posters of the AGILE 2014 conference, Castellón, June, 3-6, 2014},

publisher = {Springer},

address = {cham},

abstract = {Due to pressure of food demand, increased price competition and demand for sustainable farming practices, it's increasingly important to optimize agricultural practices. The European FP7 project ERMES focuses specifically on rice cultivation, and aims to combine earth observation, crop modelling and ICT techniques and tools to optimize agro-practices and ultimately, support environmentally and economically sustainable farming systems. ERMES combines partners from Europe's three main rice-producing countries: Italy (51,3%), Spain (25,4%) and Greece (7%)1. With end-users and case studies in these three countries, the ERMES project is perfectly positioned to chart current practices and innovation potential in the European rice cultivation market. In this work, we focus on how ERMES plans to develop and exploit modern ICT tools and techniques to assist rice farmers to streamline the rice cultivation process on one hand, and local authorities to better regulate, control and oversee rice cultivation on the other hand.},

keywords = {crop modelling, ERMES, geo-portal, rice cultivation},

pubstate = {published},

tppubtype = {inproceedings}

}