Company Profile
Consorzio ITA was established 1978 to develop the
application of remote sensing applied to agriculture statistics. The members of
the Consortium are: ENVICAST S.r.L. and ITALECO (EDICOMP Group). Since 1978 ITA
has developed technologies and know-how in various sectors of statistics
applications to agriculture, mainly in area sampling frame, ground surveys and
quality assurance and control dedicated to the production of agriculture
statistics. ITA is a leader in the production of agricultural and woodland
statistics, both through joint processing of ground truth data and of remote
sensing images and farmer interviews. It also has extensive experience in
different environmental ground phenomena modeling and in the production of
thematic maps.
It develops and implements geographic information
systems to manage the graphic and alphanumerical data related to environmental
projects.
Since 1992 ITA is involved in the IACS for the
remote sensing application and in this sector has developed the EUROPAC software
for managing geographical and alfa-numerical data related to agricultural parcel
control using GIS and satellite images.
Several EU projects were carried out by Consorzio
ITA including: rapid estimates (MiniSites), agricultural statistics (Regional
inventories, Lucas 2001 and 2003), olive trees statistics (Oli stat, Oli area) .
The main specializations and activities of Consorzio ITA:
 | Sampling frame construction (AREA, LIST and POINT FRAMES). |
| Development of statistical estimators for the estimate of crop areas and
production. |
| Landscape stratification to increase the efficiency of sampling frames.
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| Land use ground survey on segments and points using appropriate field
documents such as ortho photos and cartography. |
| Farms interview using direct approaches in the field. |
| Farm interviews by phone. |
| Land cover use mapping using satellite data and ground surveys. |
| Satellite image classification for crop area and production estimation.
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| Development of objective crop yields estimation system. |
| Ground surveys for crop yield determination at harvest. |
| Agro-meteorological model development. |
| Rapid crop area estimation for the determination of the CAP plafond.
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| IACS development system for parcels control using satellite data. |
| Studies for the construction of olive trees and vineyard cadastres using
new generation satellite data. |
| Forestry statistics using the point frame approach. |
| GIS development for the construction of advanced agricultural systems.
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| Precision farming. |
| Technical assistance to foreign governments in setting up control
systems in agriculture. |
| Drought analysis using agro-meteorological and satellite data. |
| Econometric model development and implementation for the evaluation of
the crop damage due to drought and other adverse meteorological events
(wind, hail, flooding, etc.). |
| Remote sensing data acquisition by means of airborne sensors (lidar and
multispectral) |
| Remote sensing data processing. |
| Satellite image processing (Atmospheric calibration , orthoimage
production, classification, synthetic image elaboration) |
| Airborne data acquisition (ITA disposes of ALTM and CASI Sensors) |
| Airborne data processing (DTM and DEM production, calibration and
orthoimage production) |
| Thematic mapping (Land use and land cover maps, urban maps, erosion
maps, ….) |
| Environmental monitoring using different satellite data: Landsat, IRS,
Spot, AVHRR, MODIS, ERS, EnviSat, RadarSat and VHR data as IKONOS and
QuickBird data. |
Consorzio Italiano per il Telerilevamento dell'Ambiente e
dell'Agricoltura
