Mid-Term Workshop - User Requirements and Gap Analysis in Different Sectors Report
Creators: name: Vaclav Safar
name: Charvat, Karel
name: Orlikas, Tomas
name: RIMGAILA, Martynas
name: Bye, Bente Lilja
name: KOLITZUS, David
name: Kubíčková, Hana
Publisher: name: Zenodo
Year: 2020

description: The aim of tasks T2.1-T2.4 is to collect user requirements relevant to the EO4AGRI project based on the study of completed or running programs and evaluation of EO4AGRI's own experience of members. At the end of February 2020, the final version of document D2.2 Initial Workshop -User Requirements and Gap Analysis in Different Sectors Report was submitted and later on improved based on the comments of experts and an reviewers from the European Commission. This report is an update of deliverable D2.2, with new input collected from the planned activities concerning WP2. However, due to COVID-19 crisis, the project had to change the strategy. Thus, the Intermediate Workshop, which was planned for mid-March 2020 and co-organized with the support of the European GNSS Agency had to be cancelled. Instead, the project replaced it with a series of online webinars and virtual Hackathons. Complementary to this, the project had also some discussions with communities such as ISPA. In addition, discussions with OGC, GODAN, FAO and other organisations were continued. The project also updated and prepared additional questionnaires to collect opinions from different stakeholder groups. Responses of scientists, advisors, industries and others provided valuable information to update thelist of users’ requirements and help us identify new gaps.Besides, further new user requirements coming from others projects were analysed and fed into tasks 2.2 -T2.4.Finally, an important aspect, which influenced the content and ideas of this report update, was the publication by the European Commission during this period the Green Deal (GD) Strategy and European Data Strategy (EDS). These two strategies will strongly influence also all Earth Observation sectors and will bring new possibilities.The main findings from this period are:●Climatic changes will be one from key drivers for future agriculture. Therefore,it is necessary to provide more focused research in thearea of analysis of dependencies of climate data with EO data, including historical analysis●Users require data with higher resolution●Willingness of farming sector to pay for new services is not very high and this could be a limitation for introducing new services●There is a need for deep integration of Earth Observation research with agriculture research. The same data could bring different results on the basis of different strategies●Green deal can be a good start for new Precision Agriculture Services, due to the fact that Green Deal addresses the environmental issues broadly, including Farm to Fork strategy, Biodiversity strategy, CAP strategy, ClimateChange Strategy●European Data Strategy and Digital Twins ideas can open new possibilities for Public-Private-Partnership (PPP) for Agriculture Data. This should be also necessary to be reflected in the CAP reform●New intensive research in ICT like Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Data fusion, HPC will be needed●In Public sector there are requirements on new services, not only on monitoring. Planning, water management and adaptation to climatic changes are also an important topic for the future.●Integration of EO and navigation data isnecessary●Standardisation is key issue for building effective solutions for integration of Agriculture Data