2025 was a year for TETHYS year of consolidation thanks to the implementation of an approach that in previous years had laid very precise methodological foundations, deriving from theuse of satellite data as an operational tool, capable of accompanying real, measurable and verifiable decisions and actions over time.
In an agricultural context increasingly exposed to climate variability, pressure on water resources and the need to reconcile production and sustainability, the work carried out in 2025 revolved around a key question: how to make the data useful, readable and integrable into daily agronomic practice.
Agrivoltaics: From Debate to Conscious Design
In 2025, agrivoltaics was one of the most present topics in discussions with operators, technicians and designers, no longer as an abstract concept or as a promise, but as complex system that requires method, data and monitoring continuity.
The collaborations started and developed during the year – in particular with Synergy And RP Global – have marked an important step: agrivoltaics approached as complete process, from the authorization phase to operational management.
The integration of the TETHYS DSS into the project paths has allowed us to work on three fundamental levels:
• Analyses ex ante of the agricultural and environmental potential of the sites
• Definition of compatible cultivation plans with layout and microclimate of the systems
• Monitoring continuous of agricultural activity throughout its operational life
The value was not so much in the single metric, but in the possibility of demonstrate, with objective data, the agricultural continuity, water efficiency and environmental sustainability of the plants.
A decisive step towards transforming agrivoltaics from a subject of debate to a measurable agricultural infrastructure.
The role of water and continuous monitoring
Water is the red thread which has gone through all the activities of 2025.
Over the course of the year it has become increasingly clear that water management represents one of the main risk factors – but also one of optimisation – for agricultural systems and it is in research project on kiwifruit mortality that this approach has found its most mature application.
Continuous monitoring of irrigation needs, evapotranspiration, and soil moisture allowed us to identify situations of overirrigation and potential waterlogging, without highlighting immediate vegetative problems, but providing essential indications for the prevention of root stress.
The experience gained in kiwi die-off project has strengthened the awareness that Without objective and continuous water control, it is not possible to evaluate either the sustainability or the effective agricultural continuity of production systems..
Kiwi die-off: a project entering its crucial phase
In 2025, the kiwifruit decline project, which began in 2023, consolidated its operational framework.
After the initial phases of start-up and validation of the method, the work focused on the integrated reading of results, relating vegetative growth, agronomic management and environmental conditions observed in the different plots.
The continuous comparison with producers and with scientific partners has allowed us to refine the analysis and to clarify which signals deserve attention over time, distinguishing physiological changes from potentially critical ones.
This step was central to strengthening the project's objective: not to identify a single cause of the deaths, but build tools useful for prevention, based on objective observations and comparable over time.
2025 therefore represented a turning point: from a monitoring project to an operational base for the development of predictive tools, which will guide the activities of 2026.
From the field to space, and back again
Participation in moments of discussion such as EVOO Trends and NSE – New Space Economy represented a further level of interpretation of the work carried out in 2025.
In different but complementary contexts, the same need clearly emerged, that is, transforming technology into a reliable tool, capable of talk to those who work in the field.
Making data understandable, verifiable and useful it is, in fact, a shared responsibility between the world of space applications and the agricultural world.
2025 confirmed that this bridge is not only possible, but necessary.
