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Smart farming
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W@llHerbe, a decision-making tool for grazing management
Workshops with farmers have enabled us to co-construct a decision-making tool based on land observation and modelling approaches in order to monitor grass growth and optimise grazing.
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Spot-spraying for weed control
Using precision agriculture, InnovEau aims to combat the risk of groundwater contamination by plant protection products (PPPs).
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Satellites, the tool of tomorrow for crop monitoring...
In this context, the SPAGHYTI project aims to make the most of hyperspectral satellite images to monitor nitrogen status and (a)biotic stress at the level of winter wheat fields in...
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FaST: a free digital app to help manage nutrients
The CRA-W is helping to improve the Walloon FaST app, a free digital tool to help farmers optimise fertilisation on a parcel of land.
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Bioinformatics for taxonomic identification
The CRA-W has developed expertise in the field of bioinformatics and has acquired computers with high processing power to make use of these new technologies.
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Monitoring Walloon agriculture by remote sensing
The results of the SAGRIWASENT project presented at the European Copernicus4regions meeting
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Sentinel satellite images used for agricultural monitoring
The SAGRIWASENT project team is developing operational methods for the monitoring of agricultural activity in the Walloon region by means of SENTINEL satellite images.
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Who does agricultural and environmental data belong to?
Agriculture, environment: 6 Walloon stakeholders have joined forces to define a framework for the protection and exploitation of data
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Sensors serving sugar beet health in breeding trials
For the Beetphen project, various sensors were tested by CRA-W and VITO, both on the ground and in the air, on the trials inoculated and set up by SES-VANDERHAVE, in order to assess...