SPADE EU project

The strategic objective of SPADE is to develop an intelligent ecosystem to address the multiple purposes concept in light of deploying Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) to promote sustainable digital services for the benefit of a large scope of various end users in the sectors of forestry, cropping and livestock farming. This includes individual UAV usability, UAV type applicability (e.g., swarm, collaborative, autonomous, tethered), UAV governance models availability and trustworthiness. Multi-purposes will be further determined in the sensing dataspace reusability based on trained Artificial Intelligence (AI)/Machine Learning (ML) models. These models will enable sustainability and resilience of the overall life cycle of developing, setting up, offering, providing, testing, validating, refining as well as enhancing digital transformations and “innovation building” services in agriculture. Pilot prototypes will contribute toward greater challenges, such as deforestation, precision farming and animal welfare.