The ground data that CropX monitors and processes around the world using ground sensors, field data, crop data and aerial photographs will be combined with NASA satellite imagery
An extraordinary and first-of-its-kind collaboration of an Israeli start-up was signed between the precision agriculture start-up CropX from Netanya and NASA Harvest – an American research body that leads the agriculture program of the American space agency NASA. CropX, whose systems monitor and process millions of acres of land data in the cloud, will provide NASA Harvest researchers with land data to be provided to government bodies and agricultural experts in order to develop models to improve soil and field forecasting in a way that improves insights for agriculture, agricultural crops. The lands.
The soil data that CropX monitors and processes around the world using soil sensors, field data, crop data and aerial photographs will be combined with NASA satellite imagery of soils around the world as part of the Agency’s Agriculture Program. The integrated information will enable NASA to provide critical insights to governments and stakeholders around the world for data-based decisions in agriculture.
Nadav Lieberman, CTO of CropX: “Satellite imagery has been incorporated since the inception of CropX into algorithms we have developed and our collaboration with NASA will provide vital agronomic insights by stratifying the data layer that CropX provides on the ground and field along with NASA satellite imagery. The quality of decision-making in the fields of agriculture, both in developed countries and in developing countries. ”
The start-up company CropX, founded in 2015, is currently a world leader in the analysis of agricultural data based on field data, environment and soil sensors. CropX provides farmers with cloud-based technology that connects to their irrigation systems. This technology is achievable and easy to install and allows farmers to increase their agricultural crop and quality while optimizing irrigation, fertilization and energy costs.
Last year, CropX acquired its competitor CropMetrics from Nebraska (USA) and Regen from Wellington (New Zealand). The company currently employs 45 people, 30 of them in Israel, and another 15 in the US and New Zealand. Among the investors in CropX: Eric Schmidt’s Innovation Endeavors Fund, former CEO of Google, our investment platform OurCrowd Finistere Ventures, and Greensoil Investments.
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