Farmers to get AI eye in the sky to monitor grassland

The funding from the European Space Agency (ESA) via the ARTES 4.0 Downstream Applications Demonstration Fund will help Proveye, a University College Dublin (UCD) spin-out company, bring its grassland management solution to market in 2023.

Proveye integrates Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs), satellites and Artificial Intelligence (AI) technology into a single platform to provide a higher level of accuracy and clarity in grassland mapping for agricultural advisors, seed suppliers, commodity brokers and government agencies.

In a statement, Jerome O’Connell, CEO and co-founder, Proveye said: “Through our platform, agri-advisors and input-providers will for the first time be able to provide the farmer with a complete near-100 per cent accurate picture of their grasslands in near real-time. “This will enable a farmer to see 100 per cent of the farm area down to plant-by-plant detail, which will be a game changer in terms of productivity and sustainability of grass-based agriculture.”

The funding builds on the success of Proveye’s previous work with ESA on automated satellite image processing and UAV image analysis of grass swards.