Skippy Scout Soil: Drone-based soil sampling system

Skippy Scout Soil：基于无人机的土壤采样系统

• 批准号: 10017609
• 金额: $ 18.52万
• 依托单位: DRONE AG LIMITED
• 依托单位国家: 英国
• 项目类别: Investment Accelerator
• 财政年份: 2022
• 资助国家: 英国
• 起止时间: 2022 至 无数据
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=10017609
• 关键词: Skippy; Scout; Soil; Drone; based

CHALLENGEThe FAO estimates that food production needs to increase 70% in order to feed a world population of 9.8 billion by 2050\.Healthy soils lay at the foundations of agricultural development, healthy and nutritious food production, and essential ecosystem services, which are crucial to our basic survival as well as our planet's sustainable future.Sustainable management of soil could produce up to 58% more food and agricultural soils are among the planet's largest reservoirs of carbon and hold potential for expanded carbon sequestration.Reliable soil data are essential in implementing sustainable soil management and more regular measurements are required for Carbon sequestration schemes. However current soil-sampling techniques are time-consuming, being either manual, or using machinery which is costly, produces carbon emissions and itself can damage the soil. SOLUTIONDrone technologies offer significant potential to tackle these challenges. They can deliver notable time and cost savings over other techniques (e.g. up to 20x faster than walking) and environmental benefits (e.g. no ground compaction or carbon emissions).Micro-SME business, Drone Ag will develop and test Skippy Scout Soil, a system that will be more cost effective, timely and environmentally friendly than other solutions currently available.This novel technology will enable Drone Ag to extend its market leading technology into the soil analysis market.R&D will address hardware and software challenges, focusing on two key innovations to develop the system and will lead to an efficient, accurate, easy to use, compact and affordable, novel solution that is disruptive to the current market.We will work closely with key industry stakeholders to ensure the solution will meet their requirements.The project will deliver economic benefits to the wider supply chain and end-users. Environmental benefits will result in particular, with more efficient analysis for carbon measurement, less soil compaction and less carbon emissions. Social impacts include high-value job creation.

挑战粮农组织估计，到2050年，粮食产量需要增加70%，才能养活世界98亿人口。健康的土壤是农业发展、健康和营养的粮食生产以及基本生态系统服务的基础，这对我们的基本生存以及我们星球的可持续未来至关重要。土壤的可持续管理可以产生高达58%的更多的粮食和农业土壤是地球上最大的碳库，具有扩大碳固存的潜力。可靠的土壤数据对于实施可持续的土壤管理至关重要，碳固存计划需要更定期的测量。然而，目前的土壤取样技术是耗时的，要么是人工的，要么是使用昂贵的机器，产生碳排放，本身可能会破坏土壤。无人机技术为应对这些挑战提供了巨大的潜力。与其他技术相比，它们可以显著节省时间和成本（例如，比步行快20倍）和环境效益微型中小企业业务，Drone Ag将开发和测试Skippy Scout Soil，这是一种更具成本效益的系统，与目前可用的其他解决方案相比，这项新技术将使Drone Ag能够将其市场领先的技术扩展到土壤分析市场。研发将解决硬件和软件的挑战，重点是两个关键的创新，以开发系统，并将导致一个高效，准确，易于使用，紧凑和负担得起的，我们将与主要的行业利益相关者密切合作，确保该解决方案符合他们的要求。该项目将为更广泛的供应链带来经济效益，并最终用户.环境效益将特别产生，更有效的碳测量分析，更少的土壤压实和更少的碳排放。社会影响包括创造高价值的就业机会。