Satellite technology produces a large amount of important statistics that can be used in agriculture. But satellite imagery doesn’t provide any analytics on its own, or even suggestions or recommendations. The information is initially provided by satellite operators, and is readily accessible and available for commercial use. But any publicly available statistics requires processing and analysis. Computer “decipherers” from the linguistic of settlement images into an understandable format for farmers of all kinds already happen. If the user makes a request the system connects satellite databases, collects information, and then visualizes it in custom formats that can be shared in a matter of minutes.
Satellite monitoring technology is not able to inform farmers, but can help farmers to know which area of their fields requires greater attention in the present. Nowadays, numerous development companies are developing systems for monitoring crops that automatically identify the different stages of plant growth as well as a notification system with “hints” for farmers, and are also creating databases about the kind of vegetation. In this article, we’ll look at a single-stop solution for managing farms from EOS Data Analytics.
About EOSDA
EOS Data Analytics (EOSDA) is a business that uses proprietary AI algorithms to provide advanced satellite imagery analysis. The company provides software solutions to help you make better decisions across 22 different industries, including the forestry and agriculture. The goal of the company is to ensure sustainability and protection of the environment by offering technology-based solutions for earth cover monitoring and management across diverse areas.
One of the main EOSDA offerings includes EOS Crop Observing, a digital tool that offers an online crop monitoring service.
In addition it is aiming to establish the satellite constellation it owns by 2025 as part of it’s EOS SAT project. The distinctive feature of this satellite constellation is that the seven optical satellites will be focused on agriculture due to a particular set of 11 bands that will enable more precise, accurate, and efficient monitoring of crops as well as analysis. It can also assist in the fight against such urgent global problems like the effects of climate change, soil degradation as well as water resources depletion and many more.
What Crop Monitoring Has to Offer
In essence, Crop Monitoring enables users to gain the most valuable information through an analysis of satellite imagery. It’s not just the standard NDVI vegetation index, but it also includes NDRE, MSAVI, ReCI and humidity index NDMI.
The most prominent feature available on the platform are weather information, which includes a 14-day forecasts for weather as well as current weather and historical weather data that is available from 2008. The aim of this information is to provide farmers the opportunity to dramatically enhance the planning of field activities (fertilization irrigation planting, tillage harvesting, etc.).
Through advanced analytics of imagery that are in close-to-real time it allows for quick detection of health issues in the crop that include pests and diseases outbreaks, heat/cold/water stresses, weeds, and much more. With this data farmers can make better decisions quicker and more efficiently by relying on accurate data that saves time, lower costs and better yields.
The tool can also aid in VRA approach implementation due to creation of productivity and vegetation maps. These maps split the field into zones based on the measurements of vegetation indices across different fields which allows growers to carry out different applications of seeds, fertilizers, water, and pesticides. This reduces waste of money and resources while increasing the efficiency of field. Vegetation maps can be used to aid in the current assessment of field condition which allows for intelligent nitrogen fertilizer applications. productivity maps assess previous field data as well as assist with potassium and phosphorus fertilizers because they are absorbed into soil.
The feature of scouting available on the platform facilitates enhanced fields control due to the accurate problem area detection. Thus, the user is able to effortlessly guide scouts through the fields, thereby saving time and energy on field inspection. Field managers can schedule the tasks online while the app will then inform the Scout. Because of the mobile scouting application Scouts are able to work in the field even without an Internet connectivity, and add photos and comments to their reports on scouting.
Furthermore, with its Team Account feature field owners as well as consultants, scouts, input suppliers, insurers and others have access to the required information regarding fields and crops through the same account based on the accessibility level granted to the account’s owner.
The company also offers an easy access to EOS Crop Monitoring possibilities through a white label options or an API that is RESTful. Therefore, customers don’t require an entire development team for the development, integration, or maintenance of a new program or an improvement to the existing.