Space agriculture at the gates!

 Subject: Agricultural Technology

The technology offers essential tools for farmers; applications are found everywhere across the European Union, focused on innovative research of new " tools " on the earth and in space!

Such research is implemented by the Kapodistrian University of Athens.

Concerns Precision Agriculture and the application of Artificial Intelligence ( AI ).

The application of new methods of Artificial Intelligence for editing and managing large-scale satellite data aims to develop the ExtremeEarth, an innovative research project carried out at the University of Athens and is funded with nearly 6,000,000 euros from the program Horizon the European Union 2020 for Research and Innovation.  

The ExtremeEarth is coordinated by Professor Manolis Moneybox, Department of Informatics and Telecommunications, University of Athens, and vice president of the Hellenic Society of Artificial Intelligence.

ExtremeEarth brings together top universities and leading companies with researchers from the Big Data, Machine Learning, and Satellite Remote Sensing areas. 

The project results will be used in two critical applications:

 Precision Agriculture and Arctic Circle mapping.

The satellite data is from the Sentinels satellites of the European Copernicus satellite remote sensing project. The Copernicus project provides, through its satellites, vital satellite data to develop applications with a tremendous economic impact in the European Union and to address critical phenomena for our planet, such as climate change.

ExtremeEarth coordinator Professor Manolis Koumbarakis recently stated: "With the ExtremeEarth project, we are developing Artificial Intelligence technologies that are crucial for Europe given the Union's colossal investment in the Copernicus project. 

At the end of our project, we expect systems that can efficiently manage petabytes of satellite data, which is not possible today. "These systems will be able to efficiently export knowledge hidden in the data and can be used successfully in pioneering applications."

So in a short time from now on, we do not find it strange to see new innovative technologies in Greece ( and around the world ) that increase the quantity and quality of agricultural products produced.

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