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CropForecasterLooking up and looking down to look forward.
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Looking up and looking down to look forward.A new generation tool for decision making
Content
• What is Crop Forecaster?
• The Partners
• Service Concept
• The Products
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• The Products
What is Crop Forecaster?
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• Knowledge tool that provides opportunities and advantages to improve decisions associated with the many dimensions of today’s complex food supply chain
• Data service used to manage the supply chain and risk management of crop inputs, market pricing, gene performance, and global transportation of
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crop inputs, market pricing, gene performance, and global transportation of goods.
•Comprehensive set of online products including maps and summary statistics of crop status
The Partners
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ZedX : Who we are
• Founded in 1987 in State College, PA
• Recognized as a leader in the development of IT tools for the precision ag industry
• ZedX is a small impact business with a global reach.
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• ZedX is a small impact business with a global reach.
• ZedX clients span the government, NGO, university and private sectors.
• ZedX clients work in the agricultural, environmental, energy, finance, risk and weather/climate arenas.
Industry
• E-Weather®
• HighQ®
• AgFleet®
Key AccomplishmentsGovernment
• Invasive species impacts agricultural production (USDA-APHIS)
• Soybean rust
Academia
• Integrated pest management Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (ipmPIPE)
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• AgFleet®
• Keystone Center “Field to Market”
• Skybit®
• Soybean rust (USDA-APHIS & USDA-RMA)
• Wheat Rust (USDA-APHIS)
• Genomics – Natl Science Foundation
Infoterra : Who we are.
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Aircraft
Airbus Eurocopter Defence & SecuritySystems
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Infoterra FranceFrance
Infoterra LtdUK + Hungary (subs.)
Infoterra GmbHGermany
Infoterra Servicios de
GeoinformaciònSpain
Application Areas
Services for managing the development of the environment & the security
Risk & CrisisManagement
Defense& Security
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environment & the security of our changing world
Imagery &MappingAgriculture &
Environment
Telecoms & LBS
DataProcessing
DataAcquisition
Formatting&
Data Management
Analysis&
Interpretation
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End-user packages
Value Chain
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AirborneSpaceborne
Pixel FactoryTM
Established production flowlines
OverlandLandcover
Design and Development
Consultancy & Training Services
End-user packagesData integration
Service ConceptTimely, Accurate, Scalable
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Timely, Accurate, Scalable
• Renders intricate & massive volumes of required crop, soils, weather, & satellite image data into basic comprehensible quantities that describe the status and change dynamics over any particular geography and time
• Delivers information in a timely easy-to-use internet visualization & data download reporting system to support efficient, fundamental
Crop Forecaster - Concept
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data download reporting system to support efficient, fundamental decision-making
• Provides a portal for unlimited future growth in information content & geographical dimensions
Why is CropForecaster different ?
• CropForecaster weds two technologies: satellite imagery and model simulations.
• Use of super spectral sub-kilometer imagery data.
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• Infoterra has developed an image processing program which converts multi-band data into digital biophysical variables, such as biomass and leaf area.
• ZedX has developed deterministic models which simulate analogous variables.
Results
• Provides absolute value biophysical information directly from real time imagery at key stages
• Provides absolute value parameters from the models
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• Provides absolute value parameters from the models on a daily basis.
• Produces accurate forecast(s) each and every day
The productsUnderstandable and efficient tools for your
decision making process
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decision making process
Home Page Log in
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Main Landing Page
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“Tool Box”User
Defined Polygons
Report(s)
Median Planting Date
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Minimize Legand
Planting Progress
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At-Planting Acreage
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Median Crop Stage
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Medain Crop Stage
Crop Condition
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Apparent Yield
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At-Harvest Acreage
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At-Harvest Yield (Predicted)
At-Harvest Yield
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Reports (Data Tables)
Reports will be provided for download and/or viewing for all
Products:
• Median Planting Date• Planting Progress• Planted Acreage
Reports will be delivered in the following two formats:
• Excel (CSV)• PDF
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• Planted Acreage• Crop Stage• Crop Condition• Apparent Yield (Predicted)• Harvested Acreage (Predicted)• At-Harvest Yield (Predicted)
U.S Reports will be delivered in the following resolutions:
• County• Crop Reporting District• State• National
Sample Report
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Thank You!Please Contact:
Nate Taylor
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Nate TaylorPhone (814) 441-1867
Email – [email protected]