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Google is soon launching the Agricultural Landscape Understanding (ALU) Research API, a limited availability tool designed to make agricultural practices more data-driven and efficient. This was announced at the Google I/O Connect Bengaluru 2024. This was announced by Jeanine Banks, Vice President and General Manager, Developer X, Google.
The ALU API looks to address improving yields at farms, improving access to capital and providing market access to farm products.
The use of ALU information is already being explored by select partners like Skymet, IIT Bombay, and the Government of India.
This tool will provide granular landscape insights at the farm field level. Google says that generating agricultural insights at an individual field level is critical to a change in the agricultural ecosystem. It refers to the challenges with the huge diversity of landscape and the crops leading to varied requirements for even fields in close proximity to each other.
Despite these insights being available at an aggregate level, interventions are needed at an individual farm level. Using high-resolution satellite imagery and machine learning, it proposes to draw boundaries between fields, and with the establishment of clear demarcation of fields, it hopes to resolve multiple issues ranging from drought preparedness and irrigation issues to market access problems.
The tool can get into such granular details to provide for crop type, field size, distance to water, distance to road and distance to market.
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