An introduction to the webinar cloud based agricultural modelling provided by Wageningen Environmental Research. The webinar demonstrates agricultural modeling applications developed by Wageningen Environmental Research, using virtual research environments. It explains how virtual research can support data science work and open science.

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AGINFRA PLUS - Accelerating user-driven e-infrastructure innovation
in Food & Agriculture has received funding from the European Union’s
Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant
agreement No 731001.
Webinar - Cloud based agricultural
modelling
Thursday 19 December 2019
Wageningen | 19 December 2019
Rob Lokers, Rob Knapen, Steven Hoek
Wageningen Environmental Research

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Todays webinar items
Short introduction on AGINFRA+ and virtual
research
Demonstration 1 - Crop Phenology Estimations
Demonstration 2 – Agro-climatic modelling
Short Q&A session
Evaluation - https://forms.gle/vf9h9Er8cgcwaS1A7
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A H2020 European research project to improve virtual
research in the agri-food sector
Agri-food research communities, data scientists and ICT
specialists working together to advance virtual science
An infrastructure for virtual research in agri-food
 Allows research groups to work collaboratively
 Allows researchers to develop, test, share and reuse data and
analytics
 Offers access to European resources for computing and storage
(e.g. through European Grid Infrastructure)
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What is AGINFRA+?

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Virtual Research
Collaborate
Develop &
Automate
Publish &
Share
Scale
Researchers working together on a cloud based Virtual
Research Environment (VRE)
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Develop &
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Develop &
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Publish &
Share

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D4Science offers a scalable cloud based
infrastructure
 VREs as a service
• Data analytics tools
• Visualisation tools
• Semantic tools
• Development support tools
• User, group, role management
 Computing clusters
 Shared storage
 Resource usage monitoring
 Research data hosting, sharing and curation
 d4science.org
Scale
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AgroDataCube – An open data service delivering
agricultural data for the Netherlands
 Parcels, weather, soil, crops, cultivation,
remote sensing
 http://agrodatacube.wur.nl/
WOFOST model – a renown world-wide used crop growth
model
 Extended into WOFOST-CLOUD, message-driven
applications using the Akka toolkit.
 Makes optimal use of the WPS based processing
on the AgInfra+ D4Science infrastructure.
 Uses the AgroDataCube web service for all needed input data.
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Important resources used

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