agriculture – Noise

BASF Digital Farming builds a STAC-based solution on Amazon EKS

Kevin S. Ridolfi — Wed, 22 Oct 2025 16:21:09 +0000

This post was co-written with Frederic Haase and Julian Blau with BASF Digital Farming GmbH. At xarvio – BASF Digital Farming, our mission is to empower farmers around the world with cutting-edge digital agronomic decision-making tools. Central to this mission is our crop optimization platform, xarvio FIELD MANAGER, which delivers actionable insights through a range […]

Revolutionizing agricultural knowledge management using a multi-modal LLM: A reference architecture

Nitin Eusebius — Thu, 15 May 2025 17:20:44 +0000

In this blog post, we introduce a reference architecture that offers an intelligent document digitization solution that converts handwritten notes, scanned documents, and images into editable, searchable, and accessible formats. Powered by Anthropic’s Claude 3 on Amazon Bedrock, the solution uses the sophisticated vision capabilities of LLMs to process a wide range of visual formats, preserving the original formatting while extracting text, tables, and images.

Efficient satellite imagery supply with AWS Serverless at BASF Digital Farming GmbH

Kevin S. Ridolfi — Fri, 06 Dec 2024 16:31:05 +0000

This post was co-written with Dr. Jan Melchior at BASF Digital Farming GmbH and xarvio Digital Farming Solutions. BASF Digital Farming’s mission is to support farmers worldwide with cutting-edge digital agronomic decision advice by using its main crop optimization platform, xarvio FIELD MANAGER. This necessitates providing the most recent satellite imagery available as quickly as […]

Save orchards from pests with Raspberry Pi

Ashley Whittaker — Fri, 10 Sep 2021 07:40:45 +0000

Researchers from the University of Trento have developed a Raspberry Pi-powered device that automatically detects pests in fruit orchards so they can get sorted out before they ruin a huge amount of crop. There’s no need for farmer intervention either, saving their time as well as their harvest. The researchers devised an embedded system that…

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The Satellite Ear Tag that is Changing Cattle Management

Karen Hildebrand — Tue, 10 Nov 2020 16:13:38 +0000

Most cattle are not raised in cities—they live on cattle stations, large open plains, and tracts of land largely unpopulated by humans. It’s hard to keep connected with the herd. Cattle don’t often carry their own mobile phones, and they don’t pay a mobile phone bill. Naturally, the areas in which cattle live, often do […]