HIVACROM: High Value Crop Monitoring
Lead Participant:
CGI IT UK LIMITED (LOGICA UK LTD)
Abstract
The benefits of precision architecture are well documented having trebled crop yields since the 1950s. However, present space-based monitoring services are failing to deliver for those crops that are high value for the UK, such as the potato and sugar beet industries which are collectively worth over £1bn per year. This project - the HIVACROM (High Value Crop Monitoring) project - is a proof of concept for a near real time, dynamic integrated crop monitoring service derived from Earth observation data to accurately estimate key canopy variables in high value crops, (initially potato & sugar beet), as well as soil moisture characteristics from satellite remote sensing imagery. The planned resultant service will provide mass market access for targeted agronomy; mapping and identifying areas of low crop growth as a result of disease, nitrogen deficit, poor seeding and water stress, as well as providing producers with a macroscopic monitoring tool of their cropped area
Lead Participant | Project Cost | Grant Offer |
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CGI IT UK LIMITED (LOGICA UK LTD) | £75,504 | £ 23,964 |
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Participant |
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UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER | £36,008 | £ 36,008 |
INNOVATE UK |
People |
ORCID iD |
Richard Shirley (Project Manager) |