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Monsanto and Climate Corporation announce innovation pipeline
Jan 5, 2018, 16:24 PM
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The Climate Corporation says facial recognition technology will soon allow farmers to identify plant diseases from the field.
Chief Science Officer Sam Eathington says researchers are working to train computers to recognize crop diseases from photos. “We’ll have algorithms that have got 20-30 million different parameters that are in them that are used to determine what pathogen is present.” He says prototypes with nine different corn diagnoses are more than 90 percent accurate and will provide farmers with real-time feedback to manage their crops.
