WatchItGrow, developed by VITO in collaboration with GEO Solutions, is an online information platform that allows farmers to efficiently and digitally monitor their plots.
The desire
Producing more efficiently, and therefore more sustainably, is becoming increasingly important to growers. On the one hand, they must be increasingly responsive to current and emerging needs, and on the other, they must comply with the advice around local food strategies. Farmers need digital support to better estimate their production and increase the quality of their harvests in a sustainable way.
Geo Solutions in action
WatchItGrow, developed by VITO in collaboration with GEO Solutions, is an online information platform that allows farmers to efficiently and digitally monitor their plots. This will allow them to better estimate their production and increase the quality of their harvests in a sustainable way on the one hand and follow the advice on local food strategies on the other.
The online platform combines different types of data:
- yield and prediction models,
- machine data,
- soil data,
- IoT data,
- drone data,
- satellite data,
- meteorological data,
- field data
- as well as data about your plots themselves.
Big data analytics and machine learning
As a grower, you can easily access all this info about your plots. This information was analyzed via big data analytics and machine learning algorithms to then provide individual and targeted advice. As well as to warn of unexpected changes. This is all according to current GDPR regulations, i.e. the data is always the farmer’s data and will never be shared with third parties without explicit consent. At Geo Solutions, we are proud to be part of this great initiative.
By using WatchITgrow, you can now get information store about your plots regarding harvest and planting dates, schedule for fertilization, crop protection and irrigation. Farmers can better monitor crop conditions thanks to accurate information. In general, there is also better monitoring of agricultural plots according to crop growth, health status and development.
In addition, the platform provides an opportunity to detect potential problems more quickly and thus address them. You can compare different years, estimate yield during the season, identify spatial variability within the field, and reduce production and quality losses. So nothing but benefits!
The value
Thanks to the online platform WatchItGrow, farmers can better estimate their production, increase the quality of their harvests in a sustainable way and follow the advice around food strategies
WatchITgrow is a great example of how research can be turned into a user-friendly platform to support the agricultural sector.
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