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Local Chapter project

Improving Food Security and Crop Yield

Machine LearningData VisualizationNeural Networks
Start date
August 22, 2021
Finish date
September 22, 2021
Project status
completed
Improving Food Security and Crop Yield

Challenge background

Severely depleted soils need to provide food for an ever-growing global population and 1/3 of the food produced remains never eaten. AI offers multiple opportunities to make farming smarter. One of those opportunities is to help farmers know where to add water or fertilizer using data such as soil PH, temperature, and moisture levels, combined with other data sources.

The problem

The ability of agricultural equipment to help actors better think, predict, and advise farmers via a variety of AI applications helps to achieve food security in the Netherlands. Given the enormous impact of climate change, having a machine learning model will limit these impacts. 

The result should not only be an improvement on the previously provided challenge (https://omdena.com/projects/foodsecurity-ai/), but should also give a more detailed result on which crops are best to farm on a specific field.

Goal of the project

  • Detecting problems in fields.
    • Use of satellite images.
    • Use of weather forecasting.
  • Soil health monitoring system.
  • Analyzing crop health by satellite images.
  • AI-enabled system to detect pests.

What you'll learn

1. Data extraction (Google Earth Engine)

2. Processing images

3. Data visualization

4. Machine Learning/ Neural Networks

Get involved

What to expect from a Local Chapter project

First project

  • Welcomes beginners and experienced practitioners.
  • Focuses on education and collaborative delivery.
  • Produces open-source project work.

Benefits

  • Address a significant real-world problem with your skills.
  • Build your project portfolio.
  • Demonstrate your work to organizations and project partners.

Requirements

  • Working English communication.
  • A learning mindset.
  • Commitment to collaborative project work.