Written by Charlotte Cunningham
BASF Digital Farming and VanderSat have partnered to become the first entity to globally offer access to scalable, daily biomass images, unimpeded by cloud cover. Charlotte Cunningham reports. The two companies have signed a commercial agreement, which will see the integration of VanderSat’s innovative, fully operational ‘Cloud-free Biomass’ product with BASF Digital Farming’s xarvio Field Manager solution. According to BASF farmers will get daily access to high quality, consistent, cloud free biomass images. “Faster access to biomass images, enables consistent monitoring of crop growth and leads to enhanced agronomic decisions. This optimises crop production, saves time and money, and fosters sustainability in agriculture.” Collaboration to transform farming Cloud-free Biomass is the result of close collaboration and testing by xarvio and VanderSat teams across the last two years. The new product was successfully tested in Germany, Ukraine, United Kingdom, Canada and Brazil during the 2019/20 growing season. It has a high spatial resolution (10m x 10m) and provides a single, consistent metric of crop biomass. This allows farmers to compare the performance of several fields over a large area, or in different growing seasons. Expertise delivering a reliable, daily measure of crop biomass Integrating three different satellite products together, cloud-free biomass…
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