MyEasyFarm data from Copernicus Sentinel satellites to supportprecision farming the sobloo platform.
At SIMA 2019, the startup MyEasyFarm, a cloud-based platform for aggregating and exchanging agricultural data, announced a partnership with sobloo, which will give it direct access to satellite data and related value-added services.
MyEasyFarm farmers in their day-to-day decision-making, from defining fields, planning seasonal work, adjusting inputs, and assigning farm tasks, to tracking costs and analyzing crop yields.
MyEasyFarm primarily a platform for aggregating and processing data from multiple sources (connectors embedded in agricultural equipment, equipment sensors, field sensors, observations via farmers’ smartphones, drones, weather data, etc.). Beyond that, the raw data is then transformed into value-added data that can be used for agronomic purposes (recommendation maps, intra-plot modulation of inputs) and is transmitted to agricultural equipment to adapt its operations accordingly.
Through a partnership with sobloo, MyEasyFarm a new strategic dimension to its platform by integrating a satellite data source to further its efforts to optimize the recommendations provided to its member farmers.
SOBLOO is a collaborative platform allowing direct access to all Copernicus Sentinel data.
The European Space Agency (ESA) and the European Commission have decided to promote the use of data from the Copernicus Sentinel programme through DIAS (Data Information Access Service) platforms. sobloo is a DIAS born from the fusion of the respective know-how of three members of a European consortium - composed of Capgemini, Orange and Airbus - whose aim is to offer the greatest number of people simple, continuous and rapid access to Earth observation data and a whole range of associated services.
MyEasyFarm its partners will now rely on sobloo to leverage this rich data, developprecision farming toolsprecision farming make them available to farmers connected via the platform.
Through sobloo, MyEasyFarm now MyEasyFarm direct MyEasyFarm to the full range of Copernicus Sentinel data (including NDVI indices). In the coming weeks, data from other satellites (LANDSAT, Pléiades, SPOT) will further improve the accuracy of analyses and the timeliness of information: access to satellites with high revisit rates will enable daily monitoring of observed sites. On sobloo, MyEasyFarm also MyEasyFarm to algorithms that analyze images to extract biophysical parameters, thereby enabling better crop assessment and facilitating agricultural decision-making.
At SIMA, MyEasyFarm several annual subscription plans providing access to its various service tiers, either for the current season or based on three years of historical data.
Specifically, MyEasyFarm users MyEasyFarm direct access to all available satellite images for each of their fields and will be notified as soon as a new image becomes available. After reviewing the images, they can choose to convert them into input recommendation maps and send them to their tractor’s console for on-field application (the right amount in the right place at the right time).
“We are particularly proud to be among the first AgTech startups to partner with sobloo to provide our customers—farmers and agricultural organizations—with the highest-quality satellite data possible,” says François THIERART, co-founder of MyEasyFarm.
