SLANTRANGE Announces Working with Bayer to Advance Research Programs with Aerial Remote Sensing
SLANTRANGE, a leading provider of next generation drone based remote sensing, analytics, and data services for Agriculture announced today a new Data Collection and Analysis Agreement with Bayer CropScience LP, a world leading agriculture enterprise with businesses in seeds, crop protection, and non-agricultural pest control.
“We are very excited to work with SLANTRANGE to support our research and development efforts intohighthroughput phenotyping,” said Greta De Both, new insights Global Crop Efficiency Manager for Breeding & TraitDevelopment at Bayer. “SLANTRANGE’s industryleading sensor and analytics technology adds valuable and unique new metrics to our research and breeding programs that will improve our ability to characterise plant development.”
Aerial remote sensing using drones has emerged as a powerful and efficient technology to gain new insights into crop performance in both research and commercial settings. The agreement provides funding to deploy and evaluate SLANTRANGE’s proprietary airborne sensor and analytics technology on three key crops within Bayer’s Crop Efficiency Research Program during the 2017 North American growing season. The work will be focused on collecting and analysing data on various crop phenotypes as a means of assessing genotype and/or treatment performance. The data products will include basic crop metrics such as stress conditions and biomass as well as advanced custom analytics leveraging SLANTRANGE’s multispectral signature processing and machine vision techniques.
The results will be used to evaluate how highresolutiondronebased imagery and advanced data analytics can be used in conjunction with other georeferenced data sources, such as soil characterization, weather timeseries, and satellite data, to gain new agronomic insights and provide more customised and sustainable agronomic recommendations for improving yields.
“The Bayer team is the ideal company to take full advantage of the power and scalability of our analytics solutions,” said Michael Ritter, CEO of SLANTRANGE. “This agreement represents our ongoing commitment to be the world’s leading source of agricultural crop information.”
About Bayer
Bayer is a global enterprise with core competencies in the Life Science fields of health care and agriculture. Its products and services are designed to benefit people and improve their quality of life. At the same time, the Group aims to create value through innovation, growth, and high earning power. Bayer is committed to the principles of sustainable development and to its social and ethical responsibilities as a corporate citizen. In fiscal 2016, the Group employed around 115,200 people and had sales of EUR 46.8 billion. Capital expenditures amounted to EUR 2.6billion, R&D expenses to EUR 4.7 billion. These figures include those for the hightech polymers business, which was floated on the stock market as an independent company named Covestro on October 6, 2015. For more information, go to http://www.bayer.com.
About SLANTRANGE
SLANTRANGE is an agricultural intelligence company that develops and markets sensors and analytics systems designed specifically for the needs of farmers. By quickly providing insights from the field, SLANTRANGE gives farmers more control over agricultural land, helping to reduce operational costs and improve decision making.
To learn more, please visit http://www.slantrange.com
