smartAKIS Dataset

Esri Portugal

FarmTools is a web solution for decision and operation support, that can be securily used from everywhere, and has its design and use based on a geographic approach to the farm everyday operation and management procedures. Its functionality has a season end-to-end extension, starting with the support to early land management decisions and concluding with the generation of harvest production reports, passing through harvest production estimates, parcels crop sequence planning and harvest evolution monitoring. FarmTools has its data infrastructure oriented to relate all the information, validate all the inserted records and keep history for later efficiency analysis and production trends. FarmTools includes an Earth Observation component, providing archiving and search features for UAV or aircraft NDVI images storage. FarmTools also has some of its features brought to the field, by using smartphones or tablets allowing for on-site validation, events registration and work force management. FarmTools is available in a Software as a Service (SaaS) paradigma, with cost proportional to the production area, democratizing and foster technology use also among medium and small farmers. Within agri-cooperatives or big size enterprises, FarmTools can also be taken as a procedures normalization and knowledge dissemination tool.