Monitor crops, everywhere and continuously, thanks to satellites, to accelerate the agro-ecological transition.
Kermap's challenge is to provide the agricultural sector with strategic, objective and reliable information, in almost real time
, to support its transition. Thanks to its solution
Nimbo, the Rennes-based start-up monitors each plot of land, month after month, in 20
countries in Europe and soon throughout the world. Soil cover, rotations, forage production
... Kermap produces these unpublished data in 20 European countries, and soon in
the whole world. This is a valuable resource to help the agricultural world meet the challenges
of ecological transition and climate resilience: preservation of soils, water resources
and biodiversity, carbon storage or optimization of
supply chains.
Knowledge of the evolution of plots during the season and over time is
a wish expressed by many private and public actors. Obtaining this information
quickly and reliably is essential to encourage and support the adoption of practices that integrateenvironmental issues. By automating and amplifying the production of indicators from satellite images, Kermap's Nimbo solution can nowmeet this demand.
Crop mapping 2020 available for free on agri.nimbo.earth
Satellite and AI for continuous crop monitoring.
Thanks to its massive analysis models of satellite images by artificial intelligence (deep learning), Kermap delivers every month homogeneous and cloud-free images of the Earth, freely available on the Nimbo Maps platform. These visualizations from the Sentinel imagery (European Copernicus program) are then processed by deep learning to continuously monitor the evolution of each parcel in 20 European countries to date .Nimbo continuously produces agricultural reference data over large territories, while maintaining a detailed level of analysis at the plot level:
● Identification of majority crops: more than 30 classes, with a lead over
the graphic plot register (RPG) and a reliability rate of more than 90%
● Near real-time monitoring of production areas 1 to 3 months before harvest (In
season)
● Typology and monitoring of intermediate cover
● Characterization of plots over time: duration and coverage rate, vigor
plant, heterogeneity and soon soil moisture and yield
● Rotation history and crop rotation projection
● Fodder production index
The agricultural actors can now have this information in a simple, fast and fluid way, thanks to the Nimbo API queried by their business tools, or by a monitoring platform made to measure. This information flow allows them to access:
● Analytical data on crops, from 2017 to the current year
● Alerts on crop evolutions
● Monthly updated map backgrounds, integratable with
geomatic processing tools (QGis, ArcGis...)
An operational solution, soon worldwide coverage. Many actors already trust Kermap to deliver crop monitoring data for different purposes:
● Ministry of Agriculture and Food Sovereignty (forage production and
climate hazards)
● Nestlé and McCain (regenerative agriculture), in partnership with Earthworm
Foundation
● Eau de Paris (water resource preservation)
● Kynetec (large-scale production area estimation)
● MyEasyCarbon from MyEasyFarm (low-carbon label for field crops)
Themodel developed by Kermap also benefits from the support of public authorities via funding obtained under the space component of the France Relance plan and BPI France's i-Nov innovation program .Also a winner of the first French Tech DeepNum20 promotion , the Rennes-based company raised a first round of funding of 1.2 million euros in 2022. These funds will allow Kermap to accelerate the deployment of its Nimbo solution to cover the entire world by April 2023, and to develop the international marketing of its satellite analysis products.
For more information: www.kermap.com
Press contact: yann.daoulas@kermap.com / +33 (0)6 03 67 42 11
