Tel Aviv, Israel-based agtech company Agmatix is partnering with NASA Harvest to support crop production in a sustainable way at the field level and mitigate the effect of climate change.
Satellite imagery alongside ground measurements will be analyzed using the Agmatix platform to inform sustainable on-farm decisions, according to a news release.
A combination of ground sampling and remote sensing data will be used to support farmers in their transition toward sustainable agriculture, the release said.
NASA Harvest is NASA’s global food security and agriculture consortium, the release said, with a mission to enable and advance adoption of satellite Earth observations by public and private organizations to benefit food security, agriculture and environmental resiliency worldwide, the release said.
NASA Harvest will provide its expertise on agricultural remote sensing and leverage tools developed by the consortium, which will then be combined with field data from Agmatix and processed using a proprietary artificial intelligence algorithm, the release said. The release said that these data-driven insights can help farmers make field-level decisions that impact sustainability most effectively, such as cover crop selection and fertilizer application.
“According to the World Economic Forum, sustainable agriculture practices must triple in order to prevent climate change,” Ron Baruchi, CEO of Agmatix, said in the release. “Currently, adoption is hindered by a lack of consistent and acceptable measurements at scale. Our collaboration will promote resilient agriculture beginning with smallholder farms in India and commercial farms in Brazil, and lead to further expansion worldwide.”
