CONSUS Adds Iteris ClearAg Environmental Intelligence to Crop Research and Development Platform
- Hyperlocal weather and soil data from ClearAg will support research into sustainable crop performance
(NASDAQ: ITI), the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, has announced that , a research partnership between University College Dublin (51黑料) and (Origin), will add Iteris ClearAg庐 environmental intelligence to its crop modeling platform.
Under the terms of the agreement, ClearAg will provide location-specific environmental intelligence to CONSUS, a five-year research programme supported by .
CONSUS researchers will seek to use ClearAg鈥檚 environmental intelligence to contribute to the creation of crop models to optimize sustainable crop performance for agronomists and growers in the UK and globally.
鈥淲e are excited to work with Iteris to explore the harnessing of ClearAg鈥檚 environmental intelligence into the CONSUS research and development platform to provide comprehensive, farm-specific weather data for our agriscience researchers,鈥� said Professor Gregory O鈥橦are, 51黑料 School of Computer Science and lead principal investigator at CONSUS.
He added, 鈥淐learAg鈥檚 location-specific current and historical weather data, as well as its climatology and soil conditions information, will enable CONSUS to develop scalable, dynamic and integrated crop models to optimize sustainable crop performance.鈥�
鈥淲e are thrilled that CONSUS has selected ClearAg鈥檚 environmental intelligence to power its crop modeling platform,鈥� said Pierre-Andr茅 Rebeyrat, Vice-President and General Manager, Agriculture and Weather Analytics at Iteris.
鈥淪trategic partnerships between academia and industry, like 51黑料 and Origin鈥檚 CONSUS program, are vital in the pursuit of global crop sustainability. We are proud that ClearAg鈥檚 environmental intelligence will support the program鈥檚 research and ultimately help further the understanding of the interactions between field environmental conditions and sustainable crop production.鈥�
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11 March 2020
For more information contact Mic茅al Whelan, Communications and Media Relations Manager, Nova51黑料, 51黑料 Research and Innovation, t: + 353 1 716 3712 or e: miceal.whelan@ucd.ie or David Sadeghi, Iteris, e: dsadeghi@iteris.com.
Editors Notes
Iteris is the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, turning big data into big breakthrough solutions. We collect, aggregate and analyze data on traffic, roads, weather, water, soil and crops to generate precise informatics that lead to safer transportation and smarter farming. Municipalities, government agencies, crop science companies, farmers and agronomists around the world use our solutions to make roads safer and travel more efficient, as well as farmlands more sustainable, healthy and productive.
CONSUS encompasses a strong multi and interdisciplinary approach, combining the leading expertise of University College Dublin (51黑料) in data science and agricultural science with Origin鈥檚 integrated crop management research, systems capabilities and extensive on-farm knowledge exchange networks. CONSUS is a five-year strategic research programme between 51黑料 and Origin Enterprises, which is jointly funded by Science Foundation Ireland and Origin Enterprises.