Agricultural Monitoring and Event Detection API:
Google recently launched the Agricultural Monitoring and Event Detection (AMED) API that provides information on crops and field activity across India.
- AMED is an artificial intelligence (AI)-based open-source application programming interface (API) launched by
- It provides field-level crop data, specifically helping in monitoring crops and detecting agricultural events at individual fields across India.
- The AMED API details the type of crop on a given field, crop season, and the field’s size and also provides historical information about the agricultural activity on it for the last three years.
- These insights can help significantly improve agricultural management on farms and also address the specific needs of each crop – including the right soil and water conditions, growth patterns, and climatic needs – as well as predict crops’ harvest volume.
- Google will be sharing the AMED API for agriculture startups to find more innovative solutions to improve the agriculture ecosystem.
- AMED API data is also refreshed nearly every two weeks, enabling the ecosystem partners leveraging AMED API access to continuously updated information that accounts for field-level changes.
- AMED API builds on the Agricultural Landscape Understanding (ALU) Research API that the company launched last year.
- It uses satellite imagery and AI to map field boundaries and land use across India.
