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Data-driven agriculture: How IoT could change farming

May 22, 2018

People often think about the internet of things in an industrial or commercial setting, providing sensors and data to a well-defined process or activity. But there’s one fundamental part of our society that can benefit immensely from IoT technologies, one that’s being left behind because it’s not traditionally seen as a technological activity: agriculture and, more specifically, farming.

AI for Earth

Microsoft’s AI for Earth initiative supports a wide selection of academic and nongovernment organization projects with Azure resources and access to its Cognitive Services APIs. The six-month-old program has already showing interesting results, using machine learning to identify areas affected by natural disasters with satellite imagery and using game theory to predict where to find poachers before they can kill endangered animals.

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