FAIR project

Future Agricolture trough Innovative GNSS Robustness

FAIR project has the goal to develop a demonstrator of an end to end service enabling the mitigation in real time of ionospheric error, including scintillation at low latitude, and multipath. The demonstrator will be extensively validated and demonstrated in precision agriculture application in Brazil.

The need to be met falls within the field of autonomous navigation of agricultural vehicles with high accuracy. Such systems, based on GNSS, provide for 24-hour navigation in areas where crops are grown over very large areas. Just GNSS technology, in areas close to the equator, is affected by significant ionospheric interference for a few hours a day, such that autonomous navigation is unusable for about 30 percent of the entire day. This limitation evidently results in reduced efficiency.