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by gumballhead 4134 days ago
I think that was the point of the podcast. It started as a typical and shitty CakePHP / Backbone CRUD app like everything else. You don't need much to get started.

There's a lot more in there now, but it's still built around boring record keeping software. I wouldn't even say accounting software.

We're ingesting shitloads of geospatial data specific to each field from government and third party sources, from weather data like historical rainfall and temperature, to in season and historical satellite imagery, to sensor readings from their own combines or smartphones.

This is going to help farmers understand their fields and how their crops are growing better and soon allow us to provide agronomic services like variable rate prescriptions. We're not predicting yield from NDVI. There is a correlation there, but like you said it's moderate.