Predictive analytics for crop rotation and humus enrichment – New approaches for assessing crop rotations using AI
Abstract
For decades farming decisions have been made without considering the consequences on soil and humus, and, thus on societal costs due to erosion and ground water pollution. The most important resource for agriculture is the soil, its fertility and its interdependen-cies with greenhouse gas emissions. Austria with its world leading position in organic farming requires new concepts to address climate change and climate variability to sup-port its farmers and society. AI4CROPR represents unique research in Austria on an international level and offers high potential for the development of an innovative product. The project targets famers, agri-cultural companies, municipalities and cities, and decision makers in the agricultural sec-tor. AI4CROPR will i) develop assessment methods and approaches for an economic valuation of selected soil system services of crops and crop rotations (e.g., for society), (e.g., allowing to identify crop rotations based on CO2 limitations ), ii) use Explainable AI to get more insight into explaining how a specific deci-sion was made, iii) build up on hybrid learning to combine the heterogonous data sources, identify specific features and deal with limited number of training samples, iv) detect divergent behaviour over time due to data drift or adversarial input data attacks, and v) include the new models in a usable discussion support system prototype working together with stakeholders from practice to ensure validation and verification of the sys-tem under real-world conditions. AI4CROPR develops methods to support stakeholders in achieving their legal obligations related to greenhouse gas emissions (e.g. set by the Kyoto protocol, the Europe 2020 targets, the 2030 Energy Strategy, etc.) and raise awareness for the ambitious climate goals by showing them the consequences of decisions (on soil, emissions, income, etc.) in agriculture.
Publikationen
Project staff
Jürgen Kurt Friedel
Ao.Univ.Prof. Dipl.-Ing. Dr. Jürgen Kurt Friedel
juergen.friedel@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93317
BOKU Project Leader
01.03.2020 - 30.06.2023
Aliyeh Salehi
Aliyeh Salehi MSc. Ph.D.
aliyeh.salehi@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93326
Project Staff
01.09.2022 - 31.12.2022
Marie-Luise Wohlmuth
Dipl.-Ing. Mag. Marie-Luise Wohlmuth MSc.
marie-luise.wohlmuth@boku.ac.at
Tel: +43 1 47654-93316
Project Staff
01.03.2020 - 30.06.2023
BOKU partners
External partners
Technical University Vienna
Dr. Thomas Neubauer
coordinator