Crop Forecaster Prelim Customer Presentation

CropForecasterLooking up and looking down to look forward.

Copyright ZedX Inc. & Infoterra 2009

Looking up and looking down to look forward.A new generation tool for decision making

Content

• What is Crop Forecaster?

• The Partners

• Service Concept

• The Products


• The Products

What is Crop Forecaster?


• Knowledge tool that provides opportunities and advantages to improve decisions associated with the many dimensions of today’s complex food supply chain

• Data service used to manage the supply chain and risk management of crop inputs, market pricing, gene performance, and global transportation of

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crop inputs, market pricing, gene performance, and global transportation of goods.

•Comprehensive set of online products including maps and summary statistics of crop status

The Partners


ZedX : Who we are

• Founded in 1987 in State College, PA

• Recognized as a leader in the development of IT tools for the precision ag industry

• ZedX is a small impact business with a global reach.


• ZedX is a small impact business with a global reach.

• ZedX clients span the government, NGO, university and private sectors.

• ZedX clients work in the agricultural, environmental, energy, finance, risk and weather/climate arenas.

Industry

• E-Weather®

• HighQ®

• AgFleet®

Key AccomplishmentsGovernment

• Invasive species impacts agricultural production (USDA-APHIS)

• Soybean rust

Academia

• Integrated pest management Pest Information Platform for Extension and Education (ipmPIPE)


• AgFleet®

• Keystone Center “Field to Market”

• Skybit®

• Soybean rust (USDA-APHIS & USDA-RMA)

• Wheat Rust (USDA-APHIS)

• Genomics – Natl Science Foundation

Infoterra : Who we are.

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Aircraft

Airbus Eurocopter Defence & SecuritySystems

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Infoterra FranceFrance

Infoterra LtdUK + Hungary (subs.)

Infoterra GmbHGermany

Infoterra Servicios de

GeoinformaciònSpain

Application Areas

Services for managing the development of the environment & the security

Risk & CrisisManagement

Defense& Security


environment & the security of our changing world

Imagery &MappingAgriculture &

Environment

Telecoms & LBS

DataProcessing

DataAcquisition

Formatting&

Data Management

Analysis&

Interpretation

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End-user packages

Value Chain


AirborneSpaceborne

Pixel FactoryTM

Established production flowlines

OverlandLandcover

Design and Development

Consultancy & Training Services

End-user packagesData integration

Service ConceptTimely, Accurate, Scalable


Timely, Accurate, Scalable

• Renders intricate & massive volumes of required crop, soils, weather, & satellite image data into basic comprehensible quantities that describe the status and change dynamics over any particular geography and time

• Delivers information in a timely easy-to-use internet visualization & data download reporting system to support efficient, fundamental

Crop Forecaster - Concept


data download reporting system to support efficient, fundamental decision-making

• Provides a portal for unlimited future growth in information content & geographical dimensions

Why is CropForecaster different ?

• CropForecaster weds two technologies: satellite imagery and model simulations.

• Use of super spectral sub-kilometer imagery data.


• Infoterra has developed an image processing program which converts multi-band data into digital biophysical variables, such as biomass and leaf area.

• ZedX has developed deterministic models which simulate analogous variables.

Results

• Provides absolute value biophysical information directly from real time imagery at key stages

• Provides absolute value parameters from the models


• Provides absolute value parameters from the models on a daily basis.

• Produces accurate forecast(s) each and every day

The productsUnderstandable and efficient tools for your

decision making process


decision making process

Home Page Log in


Main Landing Page


“Tool Box”User

Defined Polygons

Report(s)

Median Planting Date


Minimize Legand

Planting Progress


At-Planting Acreage


Median Crop Stage


Medain Crop Stage

Crop Condition


Apparent Yield


At-Harvest Acreage


At-Harvest Yield (Predicted)

At-Harvest Yield


Reports (Data Tables)

Reports will be provided for download and/or viewing for all

Products:

• Median Planting Date• Planting Progress• Planted Acreage

Reports will be delivered in the following two formats:

• Excel (CSV)• PDF


• Planted Acreage• Crop Stage• Crop Condition• Apparent Yield (Predicted)• Harvested Acreage (Predicted)• At-Harvest Yield (Predicted)

U.S Reports will be delivered in the following resolutions:

• County• Crop Reporting District• State• National

Sample Report


Thank You!Please Contact:

Nate Taylor


Nate TaylorPhone (814) 441-1867

Email – [email protected]

Crop Forecaster Prelim Customer Presentation

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