Development of interoperable platform for agricultural data

exchange and applications in Japan

Seishi NinomiyaInstitute of Sustainable Agroecosystem Services

University of Tokyo, Japan

Policy of Japanese government• Agricultural data standardization

– Cabinet Secretariat, National Strategy Office of Information and Communications Technology

– Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fishery– Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications

• Open data– Cabinet Secretariat, National Strategy Office of Information and

Communications Technology– Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications– Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology

• Japan Science and Technology Agency

W3C Agriculture CGW3C Team | Posted on: October 15, 2014

The Agriculture Community Group has been launched:

The initial mission of the Agriculture Community Group is to gather and categories existing user scenarios, which use Web APIs and services, in the agriculture industry from around the world, and to serve as a portal which helps both web developers and agricultural stakeholders create smarter devices, Web applications & services, and to provide bird’s eye view map of this domain which enables W3C and other SDOs to find overlaps and gaps of user scenarios and the Open Web Platform.

We’ll try to collect facts and knowledge from around the world through crowd- sourcing, while, at the same time, build a scaffold for it by quickly gathering key topics from Japanese agricultural stakeholders. Smart Platform Forum supports this early stages by connecting relevant stakeholders in Japan and organizing face-to-face meetings if needed to proceed faster.

https://www.w3.org/community/agri/

HPC (GPGPU, Cluster, GRID)

Scenario Simulation

Satellite RS

Agriculture Information Service on Modeling and Scenario Simulation

Sensor Network

Real Time Update

Cloud & Data Integration

Model Calibration

Comparison of Satellite LAI and Simulated LAI

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DOY

LAI

LAI_satLAI_sim

UAV

Agri. Machines, Application records

Yield, Soil, etc.

Weather

Crop Model

Decision Making

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Field Sensor

Network

Remote Sensing

UAV

Weather Forecast

Crop Simulation

Agricultural Machines

FMIS

Logistics

B2B Trading

Market Analysis

B2C Trading

Isolated System to Interoperable Integrated System

Distributed DB

Distributed DBDistributed

DBDistributed

DBDistributed DB

Appli 1

Field Sensor Network1

Visualization

Sensor DB

Appli 2

Field Sensor Network2

Visualization

Sensor DB

InteroperableInfo. Platform

Standard / Common / Open API

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MetBroker Since 2002

• Unified access method to a weather databases • 17 weather databases, 86,000 weather stations• Java class library and Web interface (XML, JSON, CSV, ...)

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Driver Program

Meteorological data mediation software

Rice Model

Application Layer

Cassava Model

Vegetable Model

Database Layer

Agro-Climate DB

Data from Field

GD-DR&TR

MetBroker

Mediation Layer

Meta data・・・

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MetBroker applications …

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• Other FMISs are also available in Japan.• Each FMIS has proprietary data without standard data

exchange method• Very inefficient use of data and programs

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Several FMISs available in Japan, but….

Agric. cloud “Akisai” by Fujitsu

Agric. cloud by NEC

Smarter agriculture cloud by IBM

Private agric. cloud by Sorimachi

PMS by NARO

FARMS by NARO

By Dr. Yoshida, NARO

• A new data expression for faming data is being developed for data exchange among FMISs

• Current range FIX-pms covers is limited to farm work and production process management

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Farm data exchange standard: FIX-pms

By Dr. Yoshida, NARO

• Defined based on agroXML.

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Outline structure of ‘FIX-pms’

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Production process

management

EDI surrounding farm body

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Administra-tive bodies

MAFFLocal gov. ,Tax office,

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Field owner Supplier

Financial institution

Agric.consultant

neighbors Consumer

Demander

Research institute

Private companies

Certification authority

Farm

FIX-pms

ISO11783

Sales & business

managementProduction process

managementFarm work management

Farm

XML

stakeholder

data expression

ebXML

ebXML

agroXML

agroXML

XBRLXBRL

HTML5

?XML

XBRL

?XML

?XML

?XML

?XML

FIX-pms

EDI=Electronic Data Interchange By Dr. Yoshida, NARO

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Conceptual sketch of “CLOP”

By Dr. Yoshida, NARO

Interoperable Information Platform

Integration Research for Agriculture and Interdisciplinary Field, Ministry of Agriculturehttp://www.naro.affrc.go.jp/brain/ibunyakyodo/news/2014/053158.html

Information Platform

Application Service Layer

Sensing / Data Collection Layer

Weather, Farm State, Plant State, Practices

Service Consumers

Web Service

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Market Info.

Multi-Layered Web Service

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Information Infrastructure

Sensors. Agricultural Work

Weather Sta. Network

Other Sensor

Interpolation, Visualization

Weather Generator

Crop Simulation

Standard APISOS

Open API

Open API

Application

Open API

Open API

Application

Visualization

Weather Gen.

Crop Model

Meta data and data

Standard Query

All-in-One Application

Combine Analysis Web Services - Easy development

Virtualized Sensor System

Cross-ministerial Strategic Innovation Promotion Program (SIP)Min of Agriculture, Japan

Apps by calling Web Services

Structure of API mashup : 4 Layers

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Term, Code Layer

Data Content Layer

Data Format (Container)

Layer

API Layer

agroXML, Sensor ML, GML/KML, GPX, … FarmXML(FIX-pms), BIX-pp, GPXX, …

Data structure?Data meaning?Data relation?

VVV

RDF, UML, …

SOS, WMTS, WMS, WFS, … MetXML, PDS, …

Content list in certain region of interest among certain stakeholders, …

Terminology, ontology, …Code system definition, …

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Framework for model development

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Agro-ClimateDatabase

・ Observed・ Predicted・ Statistical・ Downscaled

MetBroker

Result Data・ Crop Yield・ Growth Periodwith Effects of Climate Change

Data Viewer App

Rice

Cassava

Vegetables

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Crop ModelsDSSAT, ORYZA, ...

Meteorological Data

Forecast Meteorological Data under Climate Change

Field Data

Adaptation and Mitigation Strategies

AER1

CCR1AER3

compare to validate

Weather Generator

NARO Tanaka and Kiura

Giving Interoperability to heterogeneous sensing datavia OGC Standard Web Service for Simulation System

OGC API

GetCapabilities

List of authorized SOS stations with its sensors

GetObservation

Sensor Data withTimestamp

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Simulation System

User Interface for Famers

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Thank you very much