Description

The FAROS is an precision-farming service, which produce maps derived from Earth observation satellites. By integrating data from the Copernicus Sentinel-2 satellite to an online Geographic Information System (GIS), FAROS is an informative agricultural system that allows even less qualified users to increase their agricultural production.

FAROS develops ‘stressmaps’ using automatic normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) extraction. This index is useful in agriculture due to its ability to differentiate ‘stressed’ plants from healthy ones. It allows monitoring the vigour of crops to an exceptional detail, capturing their vegetative state and quantifying the photosynthetically active biomass.

NDVI values for fields enables farmers to know which areas of their fields need more work and fertilizer. The yellow shades show low biomass while the green high biomass.