• Membership
    • Join Agri-TechE
    • Login/Register
Menu
  • Membership
    • Join Agri-TechE
    • Login/Register
  • Home
  • About
    • About Agri-TechE
    • Stakeholder Group
    • Introductions to the agri-tech cluster
    • Agri-TechE Newsletters
      • Sign up to the newsletter
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Missions, conferences and events in 2021
    • Controlled Environment Agriculture
    • REAP Conference
    • Agri-Tech Week
    • Our Publications
  • Articles
    • Agri-tech News
    • Member News
    • Belinda’s Blog
    • Innovator Spotlight
    • Leaders in the Field
    • Agri-Tech Archives
  • Community
    • Research Digest
    • Opportunity Zone
    • Young Innovators’ Forum
    • Funding Latest
    • International
  • Members
    • Directory
    • Member Testimonials
    • Become a member
    • Increasing your profile
  • Contact Us
Menu
  • Home
  • About
    • About Agri-TechE
    • Stakeholder Group
    • Introductions to the agri-tech cluster
    • Agri-TechE Newsletters
      • Sign up to the newsletter
  • Events
    • Upcoming Events
    • Missions, conferences and events in 2021
    • Controlled Environment Agriculture
    • REAP Conference
    • Agri-Tech Week
    • Our Publications
  • Articles
    • Agri-tech News
    • Member News
    • Belinda’s Blog
    • Innovator Spotlight
    • Leaders in the Field
    • Agri-Tech Archives
  • Community
    • Research Digest
    • Opportunity Zone
    • Young Innovators’ Forum
    • Funding Latest
    • International
  • Members
    • Directory
    • Member Testimonials
    • Become a member
    • Increasing your profile
  • Contact Us

Search

More results…

Generic filters
Exact matches only

  • Member News
  • AHDB, earth observation, Satellite Applications Catapult, satellites

Satellites for agriculture explained in new report

  • April 23, 2019
  • 4:02 pm

Satellite Earth Observation is a form of remote sensing that uses a number of satellites with different instrumentation to provide information about the Earth’s surface and atmosphere from platforms up to 36,000km away in space.Satellites for Agriculture report

AHDB and the Satellite Applications Catapult, have collaborated on a report which gives a helpful overview of the potential applications of this technology and the opportunities available to farmers and growers from the space sector.

Satellites can assist growers with:

  • Detecting and controlling pests and disease
  • Understanding water and nutrient status
  • Planning crop nutrition programmes
  • Informing in-season irrigation
  • Predicting yields
  • Estimating harvest timing

A new breed of non-traditional agricultural businesses proposing advanced data-intelligence capabilities to farmers are emerging and challenging the more established agronomy, precision farming and farm management businesses. These companies are adapting developments in computer vision and big data analytics to harness this surge in data availability to increase the speed, quality and variety of products and  services available to farmers.

Added value services

  • Real-time updates on current field, soil and crop conditions
  • Real-time decision support (eg when to irrigate)
  • Precision profit mapping
  • Disease and pest identification
  • Immediate alerts to canopy conditional change (eg water stress)
  • Harvest forecasting
  • Hyper-localised weather
  • Fleet management and performance tracking
  • Animal tracking and monitoring
  • Enhanced field planning – eg field profiling and variety selection
  • Visualisation and augmented reality to enable direct in-field assessment of live operational
    and historical issues

Current UK market leaders exploiting EOS data for in-season agricultural decision support are advertising  average yield benefit of between 3 and 8% over the farmers’ traditional best practice when used for input applications.

The report is available to read here.

Share

Share on facebook
Share on google
Share on twitter
Share on linkedin
Related Posts
  • Satellite Applications Catapult signposts support for early-stage companies
  • Top innovation award for Actiphage, rapid tuberculosis test
  • Farm Performance Enhancement Platform – Farm PEP
  • Airponix Solution nutrient spray reduces water requirements in Kenyan trial
  • Light Science Technologies wins Innovate UK funding for vertical farming sensor
Archives

Agri-TechE on Twitter

Tweets by AgriTechEast

Agri-TechE on Facebook

Agri-TechE

MORE INFORMATION

  • News archive
  • Privacy
  • Events
  • Newsletter sign-up
  • View latest newsletter
Menu
  • News archive
  • Privacy
  • Events
  • Newsletter sign-up
  • View latest newsletter
Twitter
Facebook
Youtube
Linkedin
Instagram

© Agri-TechE 2020

Site design by Out of House

This site uses cookies: Find out more.