The AI-GROUNDS project, coordinated by Prof. Francesco Trovò from the Department of Electronics, Information and Bioengineering, Politecnico di Milano, has been selected by Fondazione Cariplo as part of the "Data Science for Climate and Agriculture" call for proposals.
The project, developed in collaboration with the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, and with CREA - Centro di Ricerca Ingegneria e Trasformazioni agroalimentari, aims to analyze the relationships between soil characteristics, climatological data and agronomic practices, in order to develop a decision support system based on artificial intelligence, useful for agronomists to identify the most appropriate practices for soil organic carbon management. In this way, the project will enhance the role of agricultural activities in soil carbon storage and create new opportunities for the development of carbon farming.
Sponsored by the Scientific Research and Environment areas, in collaboration with Fondazione Patrimonio Ca' Granda and Fondazione Osservatorio Meteorologico Milano Duomo ETS, the call has made available valuable datasets to analyze the relationship between agricultural land use and climate change.