The Linux Foundation's AgStack Project to Build World's First Global Dataset of Agricultural Field Boundaries
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Tuesday, December 20, 2022
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SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 20, 2022 /PRNewswire/ -- The Linux Foundation, a global nonprofit organization enabling innovation through open source, today announced that its AgStack project will host a new open source code base, alongside a fully automated, continuous computation engine, to create, maintain and host a global dataset of boundaries' "registry" for agricultural fields to aid in such things as food traceability, carbon tracking, crop production, and other field-level analytics.
Key Points:
- AgStack will utilize machine learning and artificial intelligence to manage global field boundaries data for public use.
- By sharing reusable agricultural data, new insights can also be gleaned for global food security research and innovation.
- Crop field boundaries are the fundamental unit of addressing such datasets in agriculture across the globe, but they're rarely available as a public dataset, especially in smallholder regions.
- AgStack is an open source digital infrastructure project for the world's agriculture ecosystem, under the umbrella of the Linux Foundation.