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Il Progetto Agri@Intesa

Nato come proposta di “Innovation Grant” da discussioni Spoke 2 / Intesa Sanpaolo

Perche’ Spoke 2?
Perche’ Intesa?

ISTRUZIONE E FORMAZIONE, IMPRENDITORIALITÀ,

TRASFERIMENTO DI CONOSCENZE, POLICY, OUTREACH

FUTURE HPC

& BIG DATA

FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH

& SPACE ECONOMY

ASTROPHYSICS & COSMOS OBSERVATIONS

EARTH

& CLIMATE

ENVIRONMENT

& NATURAL DISASTERS

MULTISCALE MODELING

& ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS

MATERIALS &

MOLECULAR SCIENCES

IN-SILICO MEDICINE

& OMICS DATA

DIGITAL SOCIETY

& SMART CITIES

QUANTUM COMPUTING

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Spoke 2 + Intesa

Spoke 2: “Fundamental Research and Space Economy”

Intesa

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Pero’ a ben guardare ci sono� punti in comume

Tecniche di analisi avanzata

ML, DL, ….

Tecniche di handling di Big Data

Dati di LHC >> dati bancari

Esperienza nell’handling di immagini satellitari

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Il progetto

A livello davvero alto e impreciso: “cercare correlazione fra immagini satellitari e parametri finanziari di aziende agricole”

Immagini satellitari:

Pubbliche o a pagamento, nel visibile o in altre bande ….

Parametri finanziari:

Possibilmente pubblici per non avere problemi di Privacy
Estratti da bilanci societari, visure di camera di commercio, ….

Tentativi di Intesa senza immagini satellitari dirette non soddisfacente, questo tentativo e’ molto piu’ ricco di dati in ingresso → vedere se funziona!

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Il progetto

Capofila: Intesa Sanpaolo
Spokes: Spoke 2, Spoke 5
Affiliati:

TASI
UNICT, UNIMIB, UNIBA, UNINA, UNISALENTO

Progetto sottomesso 05/2023 (prima tornata di Innovation Grant)

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Finanziamento concesso

440kEur di agevolazione da Spoke 2 + 40kEur di agevolazione da Spoke5

25kEur di in-kind da industrie

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Il piano di lavoro

Il progetto era pensato per essere svolto 09/2023 – 08/2025 (24 mesi)
Tutti progetti sono comunque partiti in ritardo (questo di piu’ ☺), ma non era del tutto inaspettato

Infatti in tutti I progetti I primi ~ 6 mesi erano destinate a attivita’ “esplorative”

Il piano di lavoro e’ strutturato in

WP (Work Packages):

WP1: reperimento e gestione di immagini
WP2: reperimento e gestione di dati finanziari
WP3: l’analisi vera e propria

Ogni WP puo’ avere delle milestone sincronizzate con le milestone di ICSC

MS7: Feb 24; MS8: Jun 24
MS9: Oct 24; MS10: Aug 25

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Il piano di lavoro nel progetto – WP1

The activity is intended to oversee the procurement of the satellite image data needed for the analysis in the subsequent steps. It will also define the structure, access and interoperability among nodes of the database.

�The procurement of the data will follow three possible paths, to be established at the very beginning of the project:

UNIBA:

external procurement via commercial acquisition; in this case, the affiliate will follow data curation and the contacts with the firm, ensuring a proper data collection is delivered
internal procurement via public sources or via pay-walled portals. In this case the affiliates will ensure the proper data quality

UNINA, UNISALENTO, UNIMIB

procurement of images from public repositories

The type and extent of the images will be subject to identification with the industrial partner (Intesa) before the start of the project, and during the first months; following also a study of the availability of data on the free / paywalled / private market.

�In particular

UNIBA supervises the image collection activity, preparing the dataset to be given to the WP3 for analysis
UNIBA will procure images either via external procurement, or internally via public sources
UNIBA will work with Intesa (WP2) to perform the matching between images and financial data
THALES ALENIA SPAZIO / UNINA:

help in image type selection / definition
final strategy doc on production implementation and perspectives

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Deliverables + Milestones WP1

Milestone M1.1 (Synced with ICSC MS7): final decision for the image dataset(s); at least a few example images to be used for initial code development

Milestone M1.2 (Synced with ICSC MS8): first dataset available to WP3

Milestone M1.3 (Synced with ICSC MS10): final dataset available to WP3

Partners: Partners: UNIBA (Spoke 2 + Spoke 5), THALES ALENIA SPAZIO, UNINA, UNISALENTO, UNIMIB

Deliverable D1.1 (at the end of M1.1): report on the final decision(s) for M1.1; “draft” dataset(s) available (ref: UNIBA)
Deliverable D1.2 (at the end of M1.3): description of the final dataset as made available in M1.3 (ref: UNIBA)
Deliverable D1.3 (at the end of M1.3): final strategy doc on production implementation and perspectives (ref: THALES ALENIA SPAZIO / UNINA)�

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Il piano di lavoro nel progetto – WP2

The activity is intended to oversee the collection of financial data on farms and firms in regions covered by the satellite data and by the metadata for which detailed images can be collected. These include (not exclusively):
budget data from the previous years
type of crops
any other relevant data obtainable from public registries
Intesa will work with UNIBA (WP1) to perform the matching between images and financial data

Partner: Intesa Sanpaolo

Milestone M2.1 (Synced with ICSC MS7): final decision for the financial dataset(s); at least a few example entries to be used for initial code development
Milestone M2.2 (Synced with ICSC MS8): first dataset available to WP3
Milestone M2.3 (Synced with ICSC MS10): refined dataset available to WP3

�Deliverable D2.1 (at the end of M2.1): report on the final decision for M2.1;“draft” dataset(s) available

Deliverable D2.2 (at the end of M2.3): description of the final dataset as made available in M2.3

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Il Piano di Lavoro – WP3

The activity contains the core scientific part of the project: modern AI based algorithms are going to be tested on the data obtained via WP1 and WP2, in the quest for models with predictive value on financial parameters.
In the first months of the project, the groups will perform activities of technology tracking and planning, in order to define a precise strategy for the analyses. The groups will involve, whenever necessary, domain experts to help classify and label the data.

Specific parts have been written by the “analyzers” (partners):

UNICT
UNIMIB
UNISALENTO
UNINA

Milestone M3.1 (Synced with ICSC MS7): technology tracking and description of strategies
Milestone M3.2 (Synced with ICSC MS9): tests on the first dataset
Milestone M3.3 (Synced with ICSC MS10): tests on the refined dataset available
�Deliverable D3.1 (at the end of M3.1): report on the final decision for M3.1
Deliverable D3.2 (at the end of M3.3): final report on the modelling

�

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Gantt di progetto

	MS7						MS8				MS9				MS10
	Sept-23	Oct-23	Nov-23	Dec-23	Jan-24	Feb-24	Mar-24	Apr-24	May-24	Jun-24	Jul-24	Aug-24	Sept-24	Oct-24	Nov-24	Dec-24	Jan-25	Feb-25	Mar-25	Apr-25	May-25	Jun-25	Jul-25	Aug-25
WP1	Selection of Source Images (BA)						First dataset available to WP3 (BA)								Final dataset available to WP3; Strategy DOC (BA+ TASI)
WP2	Selection of Financial data (Intesa)						First dataset available to WP3 (Intesa)								Final dataset available to WP3 I(ntesa)
WP3	Technology tracking (??)										Test on the first dataset (??)				Final Report (??)

Il ritardo non e’ particolarmente importante al momento, perche’ il primo dataset agli analisti e’ previsto per fine Giugno
Per WP non avevamo definito un WP leader …

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