Germ of Life project continues to progress. It includes the installation of meteorological stations for pilots in Italy, Spain, Portugal, and Greece. Those in Portugal and Greece are already operational. The Italian station will be operational next July, with the involvement of the project’s two Italian partners, Euro-Mediterranean Center on Climate Change (CMCC) and Lamoro Development Agency.
The chosen location is Le Vallere Area, within the Po Park. Le Vallere Area extends over a surface area of 130 hectares (of which 34 are regional property). It is located at the confluence of the Sangone Torrent and the Po River, in the municipal territories of Moncalieri and, to a lesser extent, Turin. For installation site, the area to be defined within the Phenological garden.
The monitoring station has this technical specifications:
-Fully assembled and tested measurement station for the integration and acquisition of data from meteorological, environmental, hydrological, and geotechnical sensors.
-Fully equipped thermo-hygrometric sensor.
-Tipping-bucket type rain gauge, for automatic precipitation measurement.
-Fully assembled and tested TDR sensor for measuring soil moisture content, electrical conductivity, dielectric permittivity, and temperature.
-Fully equipped PAR (Photosynthetically Active Radiation) sensor.
-Analog NDVI sensor for both reflected and direct measurements.
