Following the machines, people and ideas shaping agriculture. Selected developments, clear context and a link to the original source.
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A FAPESP report published in February 2025 describes machine-learning detection of plastic-covered agricultural land, creating evidence that could support collection and recycling plans for used farm plastics.
The CaSSECs collaboration examined drones as an intermediate observation scale between ground measurements and Sentinel-2 imagery, seeking better estimates of dry forage biomass across heterogeneous Senegalese landscapes.
A Ghana–Belgium partnership is developing locally grounded maize-yield estimation while addressing the field-data mismatches that can undermine satellite models.
A study reports 84% crop-classification accuracy using an open-source satellite model, while highlighting limitations in ground data and mixed-crop evaluation.
