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Australia’s first short course on responsible innovation in agri-technology

Australia's first short course on responsible innovation in agri-technology has been established. (7 May 2021)

Our updated carbon farming tool helping farmers learn more about their carbon market options

Our updated carbon farming tool helping farmers learn more about their carbon market options. (9 Dec 2020)

Digiscape’s social dimensions project: what did we discover?

Social dimensions are in many ways just as important as the underlying technical aspects of new technologies. Find out what Digiscape's social dimensions project has learned. (15 Dec 2020)

Frost on grass

Frosts, food and satellites: developing a national frost monitoring system

We’re attempting to develop a near-real-time, national frost event detection system for continuous information on frost occurrence, duration and severity within 12 hours. (10 Dec 2020)

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Monitoring agricultural patterns: new insights from big data

We’ve developed integrated big data and AI technologies, combining data from multiple satellite platforms and large quantities of paddock and other spatial data to aid the agricultural sector. (14 Aug 2020)

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CSIRO’s Digiscape maps 1.7 million grain paddocks from space

We've identified the boundary of every individual paddock in Australia's grain growing region from space – around 1.7 million of them. (7 August 2020)

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WaterWise an agtech Australian first: more crop per drop 

We’re working with agtech company Goanna Ag that will see sensors and analytics combined to maximise every drop of irrigation water used to grow crops. (15 June 2020)

A map and graphs showing nitrogen concentration in the Mulgrave River

1622™WQ app wet season review: how did it go?  

CSIRO's 1622™WQ web app was used for the first time over the recent wet season. How did it go? (7 May 2020)

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Graincast™ news in 2020

Graincast™ news in 2020: Digital Agriculture Services (DAS), now open for the 2020 growing season and fortnightly wheat yield forecasts have begun. (21 Apr 2020)

Publications Wednesday: Machine learning approaches to improve and predict water quality data

The harsh reality of Agriculture 4.0 is that sensors have downtime. So how do we make sense of the times when sensor data has gaps? Digiscape's Dr Yi-fan Zhang has published a new approach to solving this problem. (1 April 2020)