Basically, there is a need to produce more with less input. Public authorities require farmers to comply with a lot of regulations.

Farms get bigger and are more professionally managed. And I think what you mean is “experience” 😉 But times change, and the farmers have also noticed that. We will start in Germany in 2015, but we have plans to quickly expand the coverage of the tool.Īre the farmers (finally) willing to trust computers and researchers more than their age-old traditions? ☺ All processes will be automated, and the tool will be available for all farmers in a certain country. Fertilizer application maps are just one example. The farmer can use this information directly to make decisions or generate certain maps that help in his daily operations. What we are doing at the moment is developing an online tool that simplifies the process of generating information from different data sources. We wanted to change that to a certain extent. However, currently the farmer itself has no real advantage from these new developments. Or at least, simplify a lot of complex processes. Most farmers don’t like that.Ī lot of people in the market think that big data, including but not limited to remote sensing and other geo-data, will take agricultural productivity to the next level. In addition, the farmer often loses his ability to make the actual decisions and he also has to give a lot of data about his business. The data is often too complex and there is a lack of simple solutions based on these data. Only when we began researching the market and talking to people, we realized exactly what potential Agri-Tech offers.Ī lot of people in the market think that big data, including but not limited to remote sensing and other geo-data, will take agricultural productivity to the next level. At that time, however, we didn’t have a complete overview of the current market. When we started in 2013, we believed that these technologies can really benefit agriculture in some way. We all have a background in remote sensing and GIS, our team consists of three geographers and one computer scientist.

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