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WatchITgrow is a platform for crop monitoring that provides farmers, contractors, advisors, researchers, traders, processing companies, suppliers, etc. with weather and soil data and information on crop growth and development derived from satellite images. It provides tools for improved soil sampling and variable-rate planting, fertilization, irrigation, and crop protection based on the intra-field variations visible from the satellite images. WatchITgrow also includes a field registration tool and can be used to store and exchange information on field management practices, field observations, plant or soil analyses, etc. in a digital way. The final objective of WatchITgrow is to combine the various data sources (satellite, weather, soil, crop, yield data) using new technologies such as big data analytics and machine learning to provide farmers with personalized advice to optimize field practices to increase their yields sustainably.
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The authors declare that they are employees of the company (VITO) that developed WatchITgrow.
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Piccard, I., Gobin, A., Gilliams, S., Tits, L., Decloedt, J. (2023). WatchITgrow. In: Cammarano, D., van Evert, F.K., Kempenaar, C. (eds) Precision Agriculture: Modelling. Progress in Precision Agriculture. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15258-0_12
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