Satellite monitoring of crops, everywhere and continuously, to speed up the agro-ecological transition.
Kermap's challenge is to provide the agricultural sector with strategic, objective and reliable information, in near
real time, to support its transition. Thanks to its
Nimbo solution, the Rennes-based start-up monitors every plot of land, month after month, in 20
European countries, and soon worldwide. Soil cover, rotations, forage production
... Kermap produces this unprecedented data in 20 European countries, and soon in
the whole world. A precious resource to help the agricultural world meet the challenges
of ecological transition and climate resilience: soil preservation, water resources and biodiversity preservation
, carbon storage and optimization of
supply chains.
Knowledge of how plots of land evolve over the course of the season and over time is
a wish expressed by many private and public players. Obtaining this information
quickly and reliably is essential to encourage and support the adoption of environmentally-friendly practices. By automating and amplifying the production of indicators derived from satellite images, Kermap's Nimbo solution now makes it possible tomeet this demand.
Crop mapping 2020 freely available on agri.nimbo.earth
Satellite and AI for continuous crop monitoring.
Thanks to its massive analysis of satellite images using artificial intelligence (deep learning), Kermap delivers homogeneous, cloud-free images of the Earth every month, accessible free of charge on the Nimbo Maps platform. These visualizations, derived from Sentinel imagery (part of the European Copernicus program), are then processed by deep learning , enabling us to continuously monitor the evolution of each plot of land in 20 European countries to date. Nimbo continuously produces agricultural reference data over vast territories, while maintaining a detailed level of analysis at plot level:
● Identification of majority crops: more than 30 classes, with a lead over
the graphical plot register (RPG) and a reliability rate of over 90%
● Near real-time monitoring of production areas 1 to 3 months before harvest (In
season)
● Typology and monitoring of intermediate cover
● Characterization of plots over time: duration and rate of cover, vigor
plant, heterogeneity and soon soil moisture and yield
● Rotation history and crop rotation projections
● Forage production index
Agricultural players can now access this information simply, quickly and seamlessly, thanks to the Nimbo API interrogated by their business tools, or by a customized monitoring platform. This information flow gives them access to:
● Analytical data on crops, from 2017 to the current year
● Alerts on crop evolutions
● Monthly updated base maps, which can be integrated into
geomatics processing tools (QGis, ArcGis...)
An operational solution, soon to have worldwide coverage. Many players already rely on Kermap to deliver crop monitoring data for a variety of purposes:
● Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty (forage production and
climatic hazards)
● Nestlé and McCain (regenerative agriculture), in partnership with Earthworm
Foundation
● Eau de Paris (preservation of water resources)
● Kynetec (estimation of large-scale production areas)
● MyEasyCarbon from MyEasyFarm (low-carbon label for field crops)
Themodel developed by Kermap also benefits from the support of public authorities via funding obtained as part of the France Relance plan space component and BPI France's i-Nov innovation program . Also a winner of the first French Tech DeepNum20 promotion , the Rennes-based company raised an initial €1.2 million in 2022. These funds will enable Kermap to accelerate the deployment of its Nimbo solution to cover the whole world from April 2023, and to develop the international marketing of its satellite analysis products.
Further information: www.kermap.com
Press contact: yann.daoulas@kermap.com / +33 (0)6 03 67 42 11
