Summary
Enhancing agricultural productivity while maintaining ecological balance amidst climate change is a looming challenge. The future of resilient farming and food security will depend upon the effectiveness of collecting, interpreting, and acting on data. An agricultural digital twin (DT) can provide a feedback loop which improves both farm management and the computer system which informs it through integrating right-time sensor data, process-based models (PBMs), data-driven models (DDMs), and hybrid approaches. Three demonstrator DTs for farm ecosystems are currently under development, utilizing extensive datasets from three instrumented research farms at the North Wyke Farm Platform in Devon, UK to drive and evaluate the accuracy of models in simulating key agroecosystem processes, such as
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