Objectives of the Product

The product is an end-to-end system providing access to specialised EO information streams allowing the agro-food industry to easily ‘plug-in’ and integrate this information in their workflows. The system provides a set of initial customer facing services including:

• Crop growth information
• Meteorological information and analysis
• Soil moisture information
• Potato disease risk assessment
• Crop type classification
• Yield estimation and forecasting

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Customers and their Needs

EO PLUG-IN services are tailored to different customer segments and developed in partnership with customers. These customers cover distinct elements of the end-to-end potato supply chain, and engage with major specialist suppliers such as growers and processors.

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Targeted customer/users countries

Benelux and selected locations in Eastern Africa.

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Product description

The EO PLUG-IN system and its features are strategically designed as a system enabling users to derive any number of solutions, guided through online based step-by-step implementation workflows for establishing specific API data streams.

A dashboard for demonstration purposes was also developed and is provided to specific customers.

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Added Value

EO PLUG-IN provides the following added value to customers:

• Near-real time, fully remote, and during season indication on the development and stress level for a large number of potato fields
• An indication on potential yield
• Less field sampling resulting in higher efficiency as well as lower travel and labour costs

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Current status

The EO PLUG-IN system is operational and a set of services are already offered to individual customers. An improved vitality indicator is currently being developed with in-situ field data. A GeoVille subsidiary company – Geo4A – was founded and is based in the Netherlands in close proximity to the market and is in constant exchange with existing and potential new customers.

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EO PLUG-IN overview