As demand for food grows, we need to ensure the way we produce it remains as environmentally sound as possible. Farmers can now be guided by technology, to use earth’s resources like land and water in the most efficient way.

Scientists have developed a new, scalable method for estimating crop productivity in real time.

There are many movies where satellites offer scary surveillance capabilities.

Employing satellite imagery in the agriculture sector is not new; organisations have been utilising images from space to study land-use ever since the first satellite of NASA’s Landsat program started beaming back pictures in 1972.

As Digital Matter marks 25 years of innovation, CEO Loic Barancourt reflects on the milestones that transformed connected farming – and the technologies set to redefine it again
Digital Matter began as a small engineering firm in South Africa.