Many technologies now exist to monitor land at a range from scales, from hand-held sensors and simple cameras, through tractor mounted sensors, drones, aeroplanes through to satellites.
Simple vegetation indices like NDVI are readily available from multiple places, especially now that free satellite data is now available from the EU Copernicus program's Sentinel 1 & Sentinel 2 satellites.
The UK Space Agency (UKSA) supports development of Earth Observation services in the UK, the European Space Agency (ESA) across Europe.
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Agriculture now generates vast amounts of data of different types and at different scales. The ownership, access, control, sharing, value, permissioning, intergration, security, safeguarding and sovereignty of this data represent multiple challenges and opportunities for the sector.
This Livestock and Pasture study is part of the wider UKRI STFC-funded EO4Agroclimate programme.
The standard way to measure and monitor soils has been through soils samples taken to 15-30cm in representative W patterns. A range of technologies are now available commercially and in development to provide higher resolution data across a wider range of metrics. This page provides a space to share and discuss the available and coming tools, services and technologies.
The agri-tech sector is vibrant and growing, with many exciting companies, organisations and networks are working to develop agri-tech solutions.
Precision farming involves the use of GPS, sensing and control technologies to use spatial data to manage soils, crops and livestock.
As a specialist postgraduate university, Cranfield’s world-class expertise, large-scale facilities and unrivalled industry partnerships are creating leaders in technology and management globally
Unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), more commonly known as drones, are being increasingly used in agriculture to improve farming efficiency and productivity.
We are starting an ADOPT project with four farmers in Yorkshire to explore how we can make better crop nutrition decisions. Working with ADAS and the High Mowthorpe Farming Association and other local groups we are looking to engage more widely to gather and test ideas and experiences.
Paper in Agronomy, 2021 by Jason B. Cho, Joseph Guinness Tulsi Kharel, Ángel Maresma, Karl J
A range of digital technologies promise to transform agriculture, including sensing, robotics, artificial intelligence, wireless networks & IoT, big data, decision support tools, modelling, digital twins and precision farming.
Some of the commercially available digital tools & software include: Fieldview - Bayer Granular - Corteva Xarvio - BASF John Deere Operations Centre Omnia Agleader SMS Breedr Fieldmargin Yagro Geopard AgAnalytics Data Baler Agrible Habiterre Combyne MyFarms CropTrak Trinity Agtech - Sandy AgTools Agricircle Join this page to add and edit
ipaast-czo: Interoperable Precision Agricultural and Archaeological Sensing Technologies Remote and near-surface sensing technologies such as satellite imaging, UAV imaging, and geophysical survey are used in the practice of precision agriculture to support farmers and land managers to make data-driven management decisions. Archaeologists use many of these same sensing technologies to investigate the buried evidence for past human activities and make this evidence for the heritage of agricultural landscapes visible. Fundamentally, practitioners and researchers in both precision agriculture and archaeology are invested in developing a better understanding of soil conditions and their impacts on plant development by using advanced sensing technologies and related analytical methods. Consequently, there is a vast, untapped potential for sharing data and analytical approaches, enabling new research in both domains at an unprecedented scale and level of detail, leading to enhanced interpretations of the character of the agricultural landscape.
As pioneers in UK precision farming since 1993 we know the difference between sustainable improvements to crop production and the latest trends. Our early commitment to the principle of applying inputs at the right rate and in the right place led the way for 20 years of scientific innovation. Today, SOYL still leads the way and our commercial services are backed by the UK’s largest precision farming specific research and development programme.
Mercury Environmental Systems Ltd. is a commercial organisation developing value-added applications from space-based data. The company’s core offering is the provision of data to aid farming, ecological and environmental decision-making, which is produced via a crop model that is constrained by satellite data.
BEIS and STFC supported programme aiming to explore the opportunities for Earth Observation to provide solutions for agriculture and climate change, through collaborations between the UK and Australia.
The INNO-VEG project aims to increase the speed and uptake of innovation in the field vegetable and potato sectors by: Defining and implementing a new approach for delivering cost-effective research. Establishing a cross border innovation network which will create the framework conditions for innovation to facilitate uptake of the new approach.
Pasture Optimisation for Resilience and Livelihoods (PASTORAL) will work with farmers to co-design a new digital platform to help improve data to inform on-farm decision making to increase farm productivity and carbon efficiency using satellite data to plan pasture management.
We help our customers understand, monitor and predict the environment – agriculture, land, and climate risks are our particular focus areas.
Precision farming company with 20 years experience, based in Scotland but active across the UK.
After four years acting as a 3rd party distributor of various software and hardware, and a highly experienced training school, In 2019, frustrated with existing drone-based, crop monitoring methods, they decided to develop their own smartphone app called "Skippy Scout".
Combining space and agricultural expertise for the UK to become the global leader in connectivity enabled agriculture and supply chain research, products, and services.
Helping farmers profit, naturally. Our mission is to support farmers in the transition to more sustainable, regenerative farming practices.
Proactsis Controls is a UK-based developer of electronic control systems for vehicles and machines. Our flexible approach suits research projects, whilst our experience of safety-critical and full-production systems ensures we deliver robust and reliable control systems. Our ability to quickly integrate with new or existing sensors, actuators and systems brings significant benefit to every system we develop.
Useful advice leaflet from Scotland's Farm Advice Service on drones/UAVs and their application in
Article posted on Agrimetrics website June 2022: What doe
Article in Remote Sensing about estimating wheat yields from satellite data:
You need to measure to be able to manage. Yet most farms for most crops don't have a systematic approach to monitoring their crops through the season. This means we lose the opportunity to compare across fields, farms and years. There are now a suite of technologies to sense crops and the ability to share data across farms, providing the opportunity to learn what works on-farm.
Remote Sensing Applications Consultants Ltd (RSAC) specialises in agricultural and forestry applications of remote sensing.
Environment Systems is an environmental and agricultural data consultancy. We are trusted providers of evidence and insight to governments and industry across the world.
Digital agriculture is no longer a trend, but has arrived on many fields & farms across the globe. SKYFLD supports you with planning and monitoring your crops, production of high-quality food with a focus on sustainability, and strengthening your ecological and economic balance sheet.
My name is Kevin Milner and I would like to take this opportunity of introducing you to the services I offer as a specialist Farming and Estate Photographer. I am a fully qualified and CAA licensed Drone operator, and you can see examples of my work at www.kevinmilnercountryside.co.uk.
A project run by ADAS and HMC Peas, under a programme of and funded by the European Space Agency. The project aims to use satellite imagery to estimate final yield of vining peas, to maximise the efficiency and profitability of harvest and processing. The feasibility project ran from September 2023 to September 2024.
The INNO-VEG project is developing innovative methods for carrying out research into
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Hello! I'm a Master's student in Environmental Technology at Imperial College London, and as part of my thesis research I'm looking to speak to arable farmers in the UK, to understand which soil properties are most valuable to monitor, and how insights from this kind of data could help solve bigger on-farm problems.
My thesis focuses on using satellite imagery to remotely predict soil properties (e.g. nitrogen and carbon), with the goal being to inform decision making, and remove the need for lab testing or in-field sensors.
If you are an arable farmer and up for answering some questions, I'd massively appreciate your time - please contact me at sophie.owen16@imperial.ac.uk
Alternatively - if you'd just like to share some info in response to this comment please do! I'd like to know:
Thank you for your time!
Sophie