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We assess the health and performance of specialty crops, one plant at a time.
About
Plants need constant attention, which is why growers inspect their crops to ensure high-quality, predictable, and well-timed harvests free from pests and disease. Farmers rely on mostly on human inspectors and ‘above canopy’ tools (i.e., drones, satellites) to ensure that outcome. Yet, these methods have significant limitations, particularly for specialty crops such as grapes and blueberries. For example, drones can't see below the canopy cover, which is problematic because fruits, leaves, shoots, etc. must be observed directly. Human inspection over comes this challenge but is not scalable, quite subjective and, as a result, often unreliable. Bloomfield overcomes all of these the limitations with automated, direct line-of-site pixel-level inspection using imaging and AI to assess the health and performance of each and every plant, regardless of plant type, location or number. The result is more predictable, larger and higher quality yields. Specialty crop growers across North and South America as well as the EU use Flash (licensed from and developed by Carnegie Mellon University) technology for their inspection needs. Flash cameras are easily mounted on any type of vehicle to inspect any type of crop as often and as much as needed. The result is early and precise yield prediction, well-timed harvests and early detection of and protection from infestation and disease.
Key Benefits
We know the condition of every geo-referenced plant and every feature of that plant on a continuous basis for as long as that plant is alive.
Applications
Plant-by-plant assessment and condition.