“We’re currently in a golden age of Earth observation. The wealth of publicly available data from the Copernicus programme is a fantastic resource to monitor climate change and land use change, and to provide information at landscape scale,” comments Dr Andrew Tewkesbury of Airbus, a speaker in the Sofa Session of REAP 2021.
Agri-TechE together with Agrimetrics has defined one of the challenges for the Gravity Challenge 02. The finalists Oxford-based Deep Planet and Cambridge Super-Sharp Space Systems will compete to identify new ways that satellite, positioning and communication technologies can enable farmers to measure and verify sustainability metrics such as carbon and habitat change.
GRAVITY Challenge Innovator Briefing on 22nd July will provide an overview of the GRAVITY Challenge which provides unique access to earth observation and satellite datasets for those passionate about creating neat solutions to big problems
Innovation is the key to agricultural efficiencies and productivity, and a number of Agri-TechE members will be discussing developments and emerging technologies within an online seminar programme at Cereals LIVE .
Cloud cover distorts satellite imagery, leading to gaps in data that hinder results. ‘ClearSky’, a technique being developed by scientists at the University of Hertfordshire uses radar data to fill the gaps caused by cloud cover. Agrimetrics plans to pre-link ClearSky to more than a billion agricultural data points.
Agrimetrics has recently launched a new Data Marketplace, which promises to reward data-owners whilst accelerating innovation. Dr Matthew Smith, Agrimetrics Chief Product Officer, answers our questions about what it can offer farmers and others. “As both data providers and consumers are our customers, we’re interested in any data through which value could be created through its exchange.”
To implement AI in the field needs more than connectivity; it also requires a common framework for relating one type of data, eg crop data, with another such as soil data. Matthew Smith explained how work by Agrimetrics on digitising field boundaries is helping to provide this framework and this will be helpful for ensuring data is meaningful.
There has been much dispute over field boundaries as they move over time. To address this and provide a consistent framework for further data analysis, Agrimetrics has used artificial intelligence to identify the UK’s field boundaries from satellite imagery supplied by Airbus.
To help growers time the application of its key oilseed rape herbicides and minimise risk to water sources, BASF has developed a new smart tool wHen2gO.
Water stewardship tool gives field specific advice about when to spray.
Delighted that two of the four finalists in the Cambridge Independent Science and Technology Awards are companies that we have seen grow as members of