Open image database for growing crops - a foundation for the digitilization of agriculture
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| Coordinator | RISE Research Institutes of Sweden AB - SICS EAST SWEDISH ICT AB |
| Funding from Vinnova | SEK 7 788 400 |
| Project duration | November 2018 - December 2021 |
| Status | Completed |
Important results from the project
The project fulfills the general purpose of creating knowledge as support for the digitalisation of agriculture and the specific purpose of making a large knowledge addition to, according to agronomists, one of the low-hanging fruits with great future impact on agriculture and the environment; namely precision spraying or mechanical measures to control weeds in the fields. The project makes a strong funding within this by publishing a large annotated image database for free use.
Expected long term effects
A full results based on the plan has been impossible to achieve due to restrictions under Covid-19, but the very good results that have emerged we expect to lead to further research projects (during discussion with people outside the project group) and are completely possible to take directly into development projects for the applications that data is intended to support. Discussion will also be taken with AI Sweden about using the data as free proxy data in Data Factory.
Approach and implementation
Using "test bed digitized agriculture" has proven to be absolutely crucial for the project´s ability to succeed. As it grows in the fields regardless of virus or not, certain periods have been critical and some of them have been missed, which affected the project negatively as flights could not be carried out and annotation personnel could not be hired or managed in an optimal way. This has been partly handled by extension of the project.