It develops projects to certify the authenticity of Canary Island products, implement systems to optimize resources in the agricultural sector and provide information services to adopt adaptation strategies to climate change.
The Instituto Tecnológico y de Energías Renovables (ITER) has been working since 2018 on projects linked to the agricultural sector in the Canary Islands. These projects seek to certify the authenticity of Canarian products, optimize the resources of the agricultural sector and offer information services that facilitate the adoption of adaptation strategies in the face of climate change.
The Environment area works on projects such as ALOECAN, PAPACAN or TFVinos, in which isotopic techniques are applied to establish the traceability of inorganic and organic fingerprints of plants, fruits and derivatives in order to certify their authenticity and geographical origin.
The Technology area is carrying out projects aimed at the agricultural sector, such as REGADIA, whose objective is to optimize the use of irrigation water in banana and avocado plantations, or VYE SYSTEM, an innovative system for predicting the expected yield of a vine crop, which optimizes the resources required for harvesting.
It is also an objective of the research of the Technology area of ITER to develop tools that allow greater adaptation to current climate variations, therefore it develops projects such as VidDATA, which is an agroclimate and support service that provides high resolution climate information and cost estimates using Big Data and Machine Learning in order to help both agricultural insurers and the Canary Islands wine sector in decision-making and development of adaptation strategies to climate change.
These projects are co-financed, 5 of them through funds from the Ministry of Science and Innovation: ALOECAN (Project CPP2021-009056 financed by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union NextGenerationEU/ PRTR), PAPACAN (Project CPP2022-009931 financed by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union NextGenerationEU/ PRTR), REGADIA (Project PLEC2022-009444 financed by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union NextGenerationEU/ PRTR).13039/501100011033 and by the European Union NextGenerationEU/ PRTR) REGADIA (Project PLEC2022-009444 funded by MCIN/AEI /10.13039/501100011033 and by the European Union NextGenerationEU/ PRTR), VidDATA ( Retos Colaboración 2019. Programa Estatal de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad) VYE SYSTEM (Retos Colaboración 2019. Programa Estatal de I+D+i Orientada a los Retos de la Sociedad) and the TFVinos project co-financed by the Cabildo Insular de Tenerife and the Canary Islands Development Fund through the Tenerife Innova Program 2016-2021.
