Duration: 29 months
Objectives of the Product
The product is an end-to-end system providing access to specialised EO information streams allowing the agro-food industry to easily ‘plug-in’ and integrate this information in their workflows. The system provides a set of initial customer-facing services including:
- Crop growth information
- Meteorological information and analysis
- Soil moisture information
- Potato disease risk assessment
- Crop type classification
- Yield estimation and forecasting
Customers and their Needs
EO PLUG-IN services are tailored to different customer segments and developed in partnership with customers. These customers cover distinct elements of the end-to-end potato supply chain and engage with major specialist suppliers such as growers and processors.
Targeted customer/users' countries
Benelux and selected locations in Eastern Africa.
Product description
The EO PLUG-IN system and its features are strategically designed as a system enabling users to derive any number of solutions, guided through online based step-by-step implementation workflows for establishing specific API data streams.
A dashboard for demonstration purposes was also developed and is provided to specific customers.
Added Value
EO PLUG-IN provides the following added value to customers:
- Near-real time, fully remote, and during season indication on the development and stress level for a large number of potato fields
- An indication on potential yield
- Less field sampling resulting in higher efficiency as well as lower travel and labour costs
Current status
The EO PLUG-IN system is operational and a set of services are already offered to individual customers. An improved vitality indicator is currently being developed with in-situ field data. A GeoVille subsidiary company – Geo4A – was founded and is based in the Netherlands in close proximity to the market and is in constant exchange with existing and potential new customers.
