AGRICULTURE INTELLIGENCE INC — Department of Agriculture SBIR Phase II: 8.13

Description

AgIntel a spinoff company of the University of Florida (UF) has licensed two novel technologiesfrom UF: Agroview and AgroSense. Agroview a digital twin of an agricultural field can deliveraccurate zone-based fertility and prescription maps for precision nutrient applications. Agrosensecan convert a traditional fertilizer applicator (sprayer or spreader) to a smart machine for precisionnutrient application. With Agrosense the smart machine can vary the amount of the appliedchemicals based on each tree's size and leaf density.In Phase I of this SBIR project we integrated these two novel AI technologies and developed amore accurate tree level based precision nutrient management named Smart Nutrient. This systemintegrates Agrosense's real-time data (e.g. tree canopy volume and leaf density) with the providedprescription map (from Agroview) to adjust the application rate for each individual tree. A datafusion algorithm was developed on Agrosense for this purpose (aka determining in real-time thetree canopy volume and leaf density and also identifying the desired application rate based on themanagement zone from the prescription map).The specific objectives of the SBIR Phase II project are to (i) Enhance and evaluate in commercialorchards the Agroview's fertility/prescription map and the Smart Nutrient feature (integration ofAgroview and Agrosense) and (ii) Enhance field-evaluate and finalize the development of theSmart Sprayer and Smart Fertilizer Spreader. To the best of our knowledge we are the first todevelop this novel technology for tree crops.