Satellite imagery refers to images of Earth captured by imaging satellites operated by various entities worldwide. In agriculture, satellite imagery has become a game-changer, providing farmers with a powerful tool for precision farming, crop monitoring, and informed decision-making.
1. Remote Sensing for Informed Decisions
Satellite data, along with other agricultural data sources, helps farmers to understand changes in their fields over time. This can be done from their mobile phones or laptops even when they are away from their farms. This way, a farmer is able to detect common issues early on enabling timely intervention.
For instance, Synnefa's FarmCloud allows farmers to monitor their crops and collect data from their mobile phones that can help them make decisions about irrigation, fertigation or even temperature. To make this possible, the farmers have to install special AI powered Sensors in their farms to correctly collect this data.
A farmer using AI powered sensors to remotely collect data about his crops
2. Monitoring Crop Growth and Health
Imagine being able to identify patterns and optimize farm operations? High-resolution satellite imagery offers field-level detail and frequent revisits. This enables farmers to closely monitor crop growth and health throughout the season. That means, you can detect the climate related diseases in the crops early before the whole farm is affected.
The Synnefa FarmCloud works closely with the Farmshield to collect data that can offered field-level details from the comfort of the farmer's phone.
3. Data-Driven Decision Making
The goal of every farmer is to improve resource management and increased crop yields.
Satellite imagery, combined with AI and deep learning models, provides farmers with a wealth of data to support better decision-making.
To learn more about FarmCloud, here is a video. You can also sign up here.
Here at Synnefa, our focus is on providing tools and technology that make farming more efficient, sustainable, and productive. We're constantly working to implement new and improving existing technologies that can further provide solutions to farmers.
