Monsanto Subsidary, The Climate Corporation, Takes Aerial Digital Imagery to the Next Level
01 Jun 2017 --- The Climate Corporation, a subsidiary of Monsanto Company, will be using imagery from aerial imagery partners, Ceres Imaging , TerrAvion and Agribotix, to deliver valuable, high-resolution imagery to farmers.
The work is part of The Climate Corporation’s industry-leading Climate FieldViewTM digital agriculture platform.
The addition of these partners supports Climate’s commitment to deliver a true digital agriculture ecosystem where farmers can access a broad and interconnected set of tools, services and data in a single, easy-to-use interface to optimize all of their farm management decisions.
Climate already offers advanced satellite imagery tools to help farmers protect their crops by identifying issues in the field before they impact yield.
Innovative aerial imagery technologies can provide farmers imagery at a higher resolution and frequency than satellite imagery, delivering on-demand information that can be used in digital ag tools to help farmers make more informed, data-driven agronomic decisions.
“There have been tremendous advancements in innovative, aerial imagery technologies that are helping farmers and agriculture providers more precisely monitor crop health and performance at scale through increased image resolution and frequency,” said Mark Young, chief technology officer for The Climate Corporation.
“As aerial imagery becomes of greater interest to farmers as a valuable tool to more efficiently manage their operations, we’re thrilled to collaborate with these companies to equip more farmers with the data-driven insights they need through one, connected digital ag platform.”
With the addition of these new partnerships, aerial imagery data will seamlessly flow into a farmer’s Climate FieldView account from their imagery provider account, giving them the ability to access and visualize all of their data in one place alongside other important field data layers, including planting and yield data, to unlock new insights about field performance.
Farmers can also experience deeper analysis of how their crops are performing in-season, identify potential yield-limiting factors and take action early to protect yield, through a unified platform.
Ceres Imaging, TerrAvion and Agribotix each provide unique offerings and capabilities.
To develop the Climate FieldView platform’s capability in this area, Climate is activating a commercial pilot with Ceres and TerrAvion in limited regions of the United States to provide high-resolution aerial imagery for the 2017 growing season.
