Citicourt & Co works within space-tech and agri-tech and the intersection between the two is attracting investors, CEO Jodi is to chair the ‘Focus on Funding’ event.
Through its agreement with Kacific Broadband Satellites, Farmer Charlie will be able to bring digital agriculture advice, localised weather information, and agribusiness information to farmers in remote areas across South East Asia and the Pacific.
Our goal is to apply our tools to drive mass adoption of regenerative farming practices, says Matthew Guinness, VP of Sustainability for Hummingbird Technolgies, who will be presenting at the upcoming event ‘Agri-Tech and ELMs – the Innovation Enablers’.
REAP is today – as our keynote Jan-Erik Petersen says: “We already know what we have to do, we don’t need to wait for the perfect data. It’s a question of making changes to policy, of consumers making choices, and of farmers being supported for environment-friendly agriculture.
Weed mapping and disease prediction is achieved using data gained from multiple sources and is layered into Omega Crop’s proprietary crop model resulting in either a yield loss event prediction or diagnosis; the findings are delivered to the agronomist or farmer as actionable intelligence.
“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 Tewkesbury of Airbus, a speaker in the Sofa Session of REAP 2021.
Mantle Labs offers unclouded vision of global agri coverage and risk.
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.
To help suppliers provide more accurate predictions of crop yield Mantle Labs, in collaboration with Agri-EPI Centre, is offering its unique ‘Geobotanics’ platform to retailers and others involved in the supply chain, free-of-charge for a period of three months.
Satellite Applications Catapult is compiling details of support available for SMEs, start-ups, and other small businesses working in the space industry.
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.
#BFA19 Finalist: Hummingbird Technologies, featured in the REAP 2016 Start-up Showcase, has just announced it has attracted investment from BASF and TELUS Ventures. Hummingbird Technologies analyses images of fields captured by aerial vehicles including drones and satellites to provide insights for precision agriculture.