Abstract
Sustainable production and development in livestock sectors are critical to meeting the growing requirements placed on it, increased production, efficiency and reduced labour, along with the various political declarations and societal claims. Digitalisation is increasingly seen as a prerequisite to achieving the goal of sustainable agriculture and reduced labour. Therefore, it is the aim of the DiLaAg project to bring together scientists from different fields of expertise to work interdisciplinary on the complex topic of digitalisation in agriculture. In the DiLaAg consortium, PhD students and their supervisors from the University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU), the University of Technology Vienna (TU) and the University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna (VETMED) build the scientific core. The project was initiated and is funded by the Federal State of Lower Austria and the private foundation ‘Forum Morgen’. The PhD students work in the fields of robotics, image-based plant classification, agronomic analyses of crops, impact of technologies, digital twinning, livestock management on pasture and sustainability assessment as well as on interdisciplinary topics such as computer vision, application of digital sensor technologies, machine learning, complexity science, remote sensing, data integration, precision agriculture and precision livestock farming. Apart from this scientific nucleus, the DiLaAg consortium aims to act as a platform for innovation and exchange, by continuously expanding its network and collaborations in order to continue working on current challenges in agriculture. © ECPLF 2022. All rights reserved.