Geospatial data improves the performance of agriculture

Although agriculture in essence is a spatial activity, the tools and information systems that make optimal use of geospatial data are sparse and mostly in governmental applications. For instance, to monitor agricultural productivity or to control subsidies and environmental measures. The growing digitization on farms provides new impulses for farmers to work with the heterogeneity of soils and the variety in growth conditions. While the use of GNSS for machine guidance becomes a commodity in arable farming, Earth Observation is now gaining significant attention. The public satellites programs offer great temporal coverage. Furthermore, commercial constellations provide the greatest detail at an even higher frequency, allowing to use every opportunity of blue sky. A growing number of start-ups, scale-ups and established firms are providing a myriad of applications based on these Earth Observation data.

The conference CAPIGI brings together all relevant actors in geospatial and agriculture to discuss how geospatial data and technologies improve the performance of agriculture. CAPIGI, the 8th edition of the conference accompanied by a Hackathon. Which challenges teams to develop applications with satellite data, in particular related to the Copernicus programme. Part of CAPIGI is also the live demonstration of drones on the nearby site of the Dutch aerospace laboratory NLR. This demonstration day will show drones and other precision agriculture equipment and software. Please visit www.capigi.eu for more information and registration