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PES-HORISONT-EU-PES Horisont Europa

Detecting the world's most accurate field boundaries

Tildelt: kr 74 999

Prosjektnummer:

329528

Prosjektperiode:

2021 - 2021

Organisasjon:

The proposed project's background: all precision farming services and in-field analytics start with accurate field boundaries and seeded acres. Unfortunately, existing field boundary data is outdated and inaccurate, which affects the entire agricultural value chain from pre-production to grain-processors. Large scale boundary data is managed through national agencies (Cadastral): NIBIO in Norway dates back to 1990, Land Parcel Identification System for all 27 EU-regions and the Common Land Units in the US are 13 years old. As boundaries and seeded acres change every year, existing data becomes increasingly unreliable and inaccurate. We discovered 20% of all field boundaries in Norway are inaccurate, affecting €1 billion in annual subsidies. In the 27 EU-regions this affects over €45.5 billion subsidies annually, which are based on existing boundaries. Farmers are also affected: 40% of all agricultural fields are overfertilized and farmers are losing 15-20% in yield potentials through inadequate input application. The project proposed includes DigiFarm developing technology for detecting the world’s most accurate field boundaries and seeded acres to power precision agriculture. This is achieved through developing deep neural network models for automatically detecting field boundaries through super-resolving Sentinel-2 satellite imagery to 1 meter resolution. DigiFarm has successfully validated the model on 15+ million hectares of fields achieving detection accuracies of above 96%, 12-15% higher than existing boundary data. The solution benefits agricultural organizations to optimize operations, making better data-driven decisions, reducing seasonal uncertainty, minimising production costs, increasing crop-revenue and enabling key development in Carbon capture leading to reduction in Co2 footprints. DigiFarm delivers software as a service seamlessly integrated into clients (B2B/B2G) digital solutions (API).

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PES-HORISONT-EU-PES Horisont Europa