Precision Agriculture Workflow, from Data Collection to Data Management Using FOSS Tools: An Application in Northern Italy Vineyard

In the past decades, technology-based agriculture, also known as Precision Agriculture (PA) or smart farming, has grown, developing new technologies and innovative tools to manage data for whole agricultural processes. this framework, geographic information, spatial such UAVs (Unmanned Aerial Vehicles) multispectral optical sensors play a crucial role in geomatics support techniques. PA needs software store process Free Open Software System (FOSS) community kept pace with PA’s needs: several FOSS have been developed gathering, analysis, restitution. The adoption of solutions, WebGIS platforms, open databases, infrastructure nonspatial acquired helps share information among different actors user-friendly solutions. Nevertheless, comprehensive open-source platform that, besides processing UAV data, allows directly storing, visualising, sharing, querying final results related does not exist. Indeed, today, elaboration management approach still require tools. Moreover, although some commercial solutions presented platforms activities, none these present complete workflow including from acquisition phase processed stored information. scenario, paper aims provide users FOSS-replicable methodology that can fit farming activities’ operational needs. Therefore, work focuses on totally visualise, process, analyse, data. detail, multidisciplinary is adopted creating an operative web-sharing tool able Very High Resolution (VHR) multispectral-derived gathered by systems. A vineyard Northern Italy used example show generation structure web tool. survey was carried out using six-band camera were elaborated through Structure Motion (SfM) technique, resulting 3 cm resolution orthophoto. supervised classifier identified phenological stage under-row weeds rows 95% overall accuracy. Then, set GIS-developed algorithms allowed Individual Tree Detection (ITD) spectral indices monitoring plant-based phytosanitary conditions. implemented gather at canopy scale. last step concerned publishing interactive 3D webGIS, allowing update database. webGIS be operated browsers desktop GIS. result shared obtained nonproprietary sources scales.