PHOTO: PETER ROEK
With the eLocust3 system, FAO has been monitoring and forecasting possible threats to food production in Eritrea. The tool uses field observations made during surveying and transmits the data to the National Locust Centre in real-time via satellite.
environment,” SwarmFarm Robotics COO David Blower says. “We’re not going to develop every app and we’ll collaborate or allow others ac- cess into our platform to develop software to run different attachments.”
BASF, Planet provide daily monitoring GLOBAL
BASF and aerospace and analytics company Planet announced a commercial deal to deliver timely satellite imagery and data to European farmers to enable more effective agronomic decision making. BASF will use Planet’s daily, global satellite imaging to develop analytics to power field zone metrics and insights for its digital farming platform, marketed under the xarvio brand. The xarvio digital portfolio aims to improve farming techniques by providing agricultural knowledge for the best application of crop inputs to optimise yields. “xarvio’s fully automated Field Manager provides the most
advanced field zone optimisation in the mar- ket. The additional imaging from Planet will enable a new level of data quality and availa- bility and will play a decisive role in delivering powerful insights to the farmer,” said Ole Pe- ters, head of technology digital farming at BASF’s Agricultural Solutions division. The partnership will kick off in early 2019.
mPowered makes farmers profit
NORTH AMERICA The mPowered technology platform aims to help farmers control access to and profit from their own data. The platform was founded by a group of Canadian “data evangelists”, as they call themselves. Their goal is to “democratise data”. “mPowered is a novel blockchain-based ecosys- tem that facilitates and incentivises data shar- ing on a cryptographically secure, transparent and tamper-proof platform,” the founders say.
The platform was created by a group of soft- ware engineers and machine learning special- ists, “in response to growing concerns about a fundamental lack of fairness hidden beneath the hype of the data revolution,” they say. “Every day, vast quantities of data are being generated and collected at an accelerating pace, driving innovation and generating huge profits for corporations. Yet individuals, smaller enterprises and organisations of all kinds do not directly reap the rewards of the data they generate – and they have little to no control over how their data is used and by whom.”
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