FluroSat
and MicaSense today announced their partnership to offer high-quality imagery
and analytics products to growers and crop advisors. The collaboration is built
upon a strong belief that the collective capability of this agronomic solution
will provide timely insights for optimising plant nutrition management.
Users
will benefit from MicaSense and FluroSat’s shared focus on bringing
scientifically validated agronomic solutions to the market. Such solutions will
aid their production decision-making with the added value of imagery-guided
proactive recommendations for crop management.
Growers
and advisors can skip the time-consuming tasks such as imagery analysis,
separating plant signal from soil “noise” and monitoring crops by getting
straight to detection of potential yield-robbing issues.
Using
FluroSense, crop growers can combine MicaSense sensor imagery with integrated
weather information and crop models to map crop nitrogen levels, making
fertility recommendations and benchmarking their crop performance. Enabled by
the MicaSense Altum’s thermal sensor, users can also utilize FluroSense
analytics for early detection of water stress and waterlogging, which can cause
significant yield loss if left undetected.
“At
MicaSense, we pride ourselves on being sensor experts, yet we know sensors are
just one piece in the overall puzzle of crop management. We see FluroSense as
the analytics engine that provides added value to our customers because its
models are science-based and integrate multiple information layers with sensor
data to form a prediction. Through this partnership, we hope to better align
quality software with quality hardware and thus help our customers unleash the
full potential of their sensor data,” said Dr. Manal Elarab, Director of Enterprise
Solutions, MicaSense.
“As
we’ve built our agronomic models, we have come to rely on chlorophyll and water
stress indicators as early indicators of crop stress allowing the growers and
agronomists to tackle issues as they arise, before the damage becomes
irreversible. The information captured by red edge and thermal bands of
MicaSense cameras is exactly what is needed to estimate the crop chlorophyll
and water levels used in our predictive models in agriculture. As FluroSat and
MicaSense both continue to develop our technologies, we look forward to
delivering value to the growers and advisors, as well as creating the “easy
button” in the form of an integrated workflow, which everyone in the industry
is looking for,” commented Dr. Anastasia Volkova, CEO & Founder, FluroSat.
Collaboration between
FluroSat and MicaSense started
in the 2017/18 growing season when the two companies partnered on a trial to
analyze 14,000 acres of cotton grown on 71 irrigated and dryland farms. Results
from the trial showed that site-specific application of nutrients and chemicals
driven by accurate nutrient and crop health mapping can improve yields by up to
20 percent and reduce fertilizer cost by 30 to 35 percent.
The
partnership will see a pipeline of further initiatives which aim to develop
advanced sensor and software capabilities and provide actionable information to
farmers, growers and agronomists.
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