Agriculture
February 22, 2021
Planet has entered into a satellite imagery data supply agreement with Manna Irrigation, an Israeli smart agriculture company that provides growers around the world with irrigation recommendations, crop monitoring maps, and irrigation planning tools. Manna will incorporate Planet's monitoring and archive system, PlanetScope, into its prediction services for agricultural irrigation. Manna's system is sensor-free and…
February 17, 2021
Myriota and Goanna Ag have teamed up to launch two new satellite-based products to help Australian farmers, the companies announced Wednesday. The two new products, GoRain and GoTank, aim to change how farmers manage water resources. Goanna Ag is a provider of on-farm sensor solutions, and Myriota is a provider of low-cost and low-power satellite…
January 15, 2021
Globalstar has signed an agreement to supply satellite services to Ceres Tag, a direct-to-satellite animal tracking platform. The Ceres Tag is a smart ear tag that weighs just over one ounce, that attaches to the animal and automatically sends the data to the cloud via the Globalstar Satellite Network. Ceres Tag said this relationship with…
November 13, 2020
Nanoracks is building an AgTech research program in Abu Dhabi as part of an United Arab Emirates initiative to invest in its AgTech ecosystem. The StarLab Space Farming Center will be a commercial space research facility to study space-based innovations in AgTech that can be applied on Earth to address climate change-caused food insecurity. The…