Geospatial Tech Transforms Farms: Regrow.ag's Revelations (reports, soils, crop types) |Geo4Good'23

👉 The slide deck for this talk → docs.google.com/presentation/d/1-RZkecOUio5o0csOG0… 🛰️ More about the 2023 Geo for Good Summit → g.co/earth/geoforgood23 ❤️🌍 DESCRIPTION: Regrow is a technology company that uses remote sensing and soil biogeochemistry modeling to help farmers make data-driven decisions about regenerative agriculture practices. Their Sustainability Insights product provides farmers with tools to track their progress and quantify the impact of their practices, while their MRV platform enables companies to measure, report, and verify the environmental benefits of their supply chains to reduce GHG emissions in their agricultural supply chains by providing key baseline data, monitoring resilient agricultural practices, and quantifying soil carbon gains and reduced emissions. One of their core products, Sustainability Insights, provides data on key commodities in their sourcing regions by: 1) delineating field boundaries 2) mapping crop production annually 3) classifying the practices used on each field and 4) modeling how these practices change SOC levels over time. In this session, Regrow discusses how they generate field level crop and management practice histories for the US, Europe, and Brazil by capitalizing on the power of Google Earth Engine to drive their machine learning models. They demo how field level data is translated to actionableinsights through on-the-fly aggregation of user defined supply-sheds to drive sustainable sourcing decisions and enable emissions reporting workflows. 💻 TIMESTAMPS: 0:00 - Introduction to Regrow 4:08 - Meeting Agenda Overview 6:09 - Food Production & Climate Change 8:40 - Climate-Smart Agricultural Practices 11:02 - Regrow's Sustainability Insights 12:54 - Regrow's Mission Statement 14:09 - Field Viability Analysis 17:22 - Data Preprocessing & Quality 20:44 - Satellite Data for Farming Practices 21:57 - Green Cover Analysis 23:03 - Crop Residue Cover Techniques 23:30 - Determining Plant Harvest Dates 25:08 - Advanced Crop Type Mapping 26:00 - Accurate Field Boundary Detection 27:40 - Google Earth Engine Applications 32:00 - Insights into Sustainable Agriculture 33:36 - Reporting on Sustainability Metrics 37:39 - Soil Biogeochemistry & Emissions 42:50 - Overview of Regrow's MRV Platform 45:15 - Assessing Regrow's Global Impact 48:18 - Audience Q&A Session 51:50 - Final Audience Question 🎙️ SPEAKERS: Matt Jones, Regrow Field Monitoring, Earth Climate Change, Crop Rotation, Agroecosystems, Carbon Sequestration, Agricultural Data, Emission Reduction, Climate Change 2021, Ag Data Analysis, Climate Change Documentary, Earth Engine Apps, Sustainable Farming, Data Science, Google Cloud, Farming Analytics, Global Warming News, Climate Change, No-tillage, No-till, Ag Supply Chains, Environmental Tech Solutions, Soil Organic C