“Ceres Imaging has a lot of really good research with the University of California, Davis, to correlate cumulative water stress to relative yield loss,” says Zac Ellis, a senior agronomist at Olam International. “It’s a very non-invasive way to measure ROI and figure out what my potential loss is and how much money I need to spend to fix a given problem."
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By using proprietary image sensors, computer vision, machine learning, and plant science, the company allows farmers to react to changes in their fields weeks before they can see them with the naked eye.
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The Ceres Imaging product combines proprietary image sensors, artificial intelligence, machine learning and plant science. The company says it can monitor individual plant water and nutrient content—as well as individual plant stress.
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"Ceres Imaging's innovative technology solutions allows them to partner with farmers in California, the U.S. Midwest, and Australia to solve the world's most important agriculture issues," said Harley Miller, vice president at Insight Venture Partners. "We couldn't be more excited to welcome them to Insight Venture Partners' portfolio, and look forward to helping the team advance farming efficiency across the globe."
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Since its founding, Ceres Imaging has raised some $35 million in venture capital. The current round will advance computer vision and AI development by allowing recruitment of new technical talent, and will fund targeted imagery products for new markets.
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There are 2.1 million farms in the United States producing goods that generated nearly $400 billion in sales in 2012. The question these farmers face is the same one that has vexed them for millenia: How to improve the quality of their crops and maximize their profits? The answer rests in better understanding the ground beneath their feet. To ensure a successful harvest, farmers need to consider a host of factors like soil quality, temperature, and potential diseases. You might not think this is something artificial intelligence, let alone photography, could help solve, but it’s a challenge Ceres Imaging wants to tackle.
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The corporate’s sensors seize high-resolution aerial imagery at numerous wavelengths. The pictures are mixed right into a mosaic and algorithmically analyzed by Ceres’s software program, revealing plant well being intimately. For instance, scans can present farmers the place and when pests or ailments are rising on their land, the nitrogen ranges within the leaves of their crops or the place their crops are too dry or waterlogged.
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Since the company closed their Series A, they’ve continued expanding their efforts beyond vineyards and orchards into “row crops” like corn, soybeans and wheat. While those crops may be lower margin by nature, they offer a big opportunity when it comes to scaling up their operations and tackling problems on a bigger scale.
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As farmers face new challenges, from higher tariffs to extreme weather, Ceres Imaging is helping them optimize their crop production with sensors, software and aircraft...the Oakland, California-based start-up installs 10 pounds worth of sensors in low-flying aircraft, and sends them over farms on a regular basis. And it has $25 million in fresh venture funding to expand its service across the U.S. and international markets.
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"Ceres Imaging is uniquely positioned in the market, with the right team, technology and product offering to help realize sustainable crop yields for farmers, and Insight Venture Partners is thrilled to help them scale in this journey," said Deven Parekh, Managing Director at Insight Venture Partners.
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California-based remote sensing startup Ceres Imaging has raised $25 million in Series B financing from one existing and one new investor, taking the company’s total investment to $35 million. The new funds came from new investor Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based growth-stage venture and private equity firm, and existing investor Romulus Capital.
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Oakland, California-based agritech startup, Ceres Imaging, has $25 million in fresh venture funding from Insight Venture Partners and Romulus Capital. The funding will be used to expand its service across the U.S. and international markets. Ceres Imaging is a California-based aerial spectral imagery and analytics company that serves farmers and agribusinesses. Using proprietary sensors, analytics, machine learning models, and plant science, Ceres delivers university-validated imagery-based intelligence to farms in the US and Australia.
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Aerial Imaging Startup Ceres Closes $25 Million Series B
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Ceres does from six to 10 flyovers a year at each ranch and takes photos with various types of lenses that can determine such things as water and heat stress. Bergwerff says he can incorporate the imagery into the Ranch Systems' data to give him a real-time picture of conditions at each site.
“A few days ago we found a drip line that had been closed” just by examining the imagery, he says. Previously, that might have required hours of walking through orchards to check all the lines.
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"We’ve taken soil samples in the past, and that works. But, when you take a soil sample, you’re going to the middle of the field for a representative area or pinpointing a specific area,” says Brian Fiscalini, general manager. “When you’re talking about a pretty large field, you’re only getting a snapshot of that place. With the aerial imagery you’re getting a much larger picture."
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There are crops at risk in a steadily warming world. Whatever the cause of that warming, it will impact agricultural production at home and abroad. Anthony Atlas, VP of Product for Ceres Imaging in San Francisco, has a literal birds-eye view of all this happening. Ceres Imaging is an agriculture technology company that does airborne, science-backed remote sensing/spectral imaging to provide insight into crops — water stress, pests/disease stress, nutrient status — that can detect changes in plants 7-12 days before they can be seen with the naked eye.
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“We’ve taken soil samples in the past, and that works. But when you take a soil sample you’re going to the middle of the field for a representative area or pinpointing a specific area,” said Brian Fiscalini, General Manager. “When you’re talking about a pretty large field, you’re only getting a snapshot of that place. With the aerial imagery you’re getting a much larger picture.”
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An agronomist monitoring potato fields uses aerial thermal imaging to spot irrigation problems. John Vaadeland, a Park Rapids, Minn., agronomist who monitors potato fields in North Dakota and Minnesota, is spotting problems in potato fields long before he can see the symptoms with the naked eye. He accomplishes this by using a new multi-spectral aerial imaging service from Ceres Imaging.
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Imaging systems from Ceres Imaging, Oakland, Calif., can identify pivot irrigation issues, thus saving crop quality.
Ceres flew over pivot-irrigated potatoes in central North Dakota, providing early-season thermal imagery that identified sprinkler system problems before potato crops were damaged by over or underwatering.
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アグテックスタートアップのCeres Imagingは、農地にセンサー設備を搭載した飛行機を飛ばし、高解像度の画像データを収集。そのデータを解析し、農家に栽培や品質管理に関するインサイトを提供している。
例えば、カメラで農地を撮影して温度を確認し、土に含まれた水の量を把握することもできる。撮影された画像では、水が多く撒かれた箇所は暗く、また少ない箇所は明るく表示される。Ceres Imagingは、その画像データの解析作業に人工知能（AI）を用いている。
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Você está cansado de se decepcionar com batatas fritas? As máquinas chegaram para ajudar.
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Tired of disappointing french fries? The machines are here to help.
Ceres Imaging, a startup based in Oakland, California, flies planes over crops to capture data. That data is crunched using artificial intelligence, and it can tell a potato farmer if fields are getting too much or too little water.
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Thanks to advances in photonics and image processing, scientists, farmers and others can get a better picture of what’s going on across a landscape. With cameras operating over large swaths of the spectrum and lidar capturing fine structural detail, remote sensing across broad areas is increasingly cost-effective.
An example comes from Ceres Imaging of Oakland, Calif. Founded in 2014, the company uses remote sensing from aerial platforms to provide farmers with plant-level water and nutrient content information. The goal is to enable growers to realize higher crop yields by assessing plant health and spotting problems.
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Efficiency is what Ceres Imaging can provide, says Sanden, citing the five-year UCCE study, which had funding support from the USDA. Aerial images of orchards can effectively tell farmers which almond trees aren’t getting enough water.
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Maintaining ideal irrigation levels is a huge challenge for growers, as is predicting the final harvest tonnage, which is why the study examined the usefulness of Ceres aerial imagery in those areas. Detecting deficient irrigation quickly is one way Ceres images offer early warnings to growers.
Now almond growers have technology available from an Oakland, CA, company called Ceres Imaging that recently received a ringing endorsement from University of California Cooperative Extension (UCCE) Farm Advisor Blake Sanden. The UCCE Irrigation and Soils Farm Advisor in Kern County, along with several colleagues in the state, has had a study underway since 2013, the results of which will soon be published.
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“We have direct competitors on the platform and obviously selfishly, we would love to be the one that everyone uses,” says Ashwin Madgavkar, CEO of aerial imagery start-up Ceres Imaging. “The reality is that there is education and important differentiation between imagery options. Having multiple options on the platform is good in that it allows a constructive discussion around the pros and cons as to what is the best solution.”
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Ceres Imaging, which provides science-backed aerial images to growers, will offer Midwestern corn and soybean farmers an early warning system for pests and diseases in 2018.
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On Monday, SVG Partners announced its THRIVE Top 50, an annual ranking of 50 leading agricultural technology companies exemplifying the best in agriculture technology around the globe.
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“We have direct competitors on the platform and obviously selfishly, we would love to be the one that everyone uses,” says Ashwin Madgavkar, CEO of aerial imagery startup Ceres Imaging. “The reality is that there is education and important differentiation between imagery options. Having multiple options on the platform is good in that it allows a constructive discussion around the pros and cons as to what is the best solution.”
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The company collects data through sensors equipped on a plane flying at low altitudes and relays the information to farmers. While stalks and leaves typically conceal their inner workings after growing and creating a canopy, Ceres Imaging has found a work-around, piercing through these canopies using wavelength-based spectroscopy to detect abnormalities such as pests and diseases.
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Using sensors equipped on a plane flying at low altitudes, the company collects data and relays the information to the farmers. For the soybeans and corn, they represented a different challenge as the stalks and leaves can grow large enough to create a canopy, leaving what’s happening beneath it nearly invisible. But Ceres Imaging said it pierces through the canopy using wavelength-based spectroscopy to detect any abnormalities — especially pests and diseases.
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An Oakland-based startup is sending its aerial imaging technology to the Midwestern plains to help farmers detect pests and diseases in their corn and soybean fields before an outbreak.
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9. Ceres Imaging-To help with water stress, plant nutrient uniformity, pest emergence, and other issues in their fields, farmers are using Ceres Imaging. Ceres Imaging provides aerial spectral imagery throughout the growing season to observe patterns and trends over time, view you entire farm, or zoom into individual rows and plants. The imagery can be downloaded to your device. Available for iPad and iPhone.
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Ceres Imaging (ceresimaging.net), an Oakland-based VC-funded company is led by agricultural and technology professionals including agronomists, hydrologists, and remote sensing experts. The company’s products, which include agronomic insights through aerial spectral imagery, proprietary sensors and analytics, and artificial intelligence software is already being used to help local almond farmers optimize nut harvests and profits.
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Ashwin Madgavkar with Ceres Imaging explains new technology for California almond orchards, and other crops.
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Technology in farming is growing by leaps and bounds, and Ceres Imaging is at the forefront of that. In this segment, Rich Kreps, a Certified Crop Advisor for Ultra Gro, talked with Brett Bloom of Ceres Imaging.
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Catching disease or crop stress early is a good thing, right? What if you could identify crop disease 10 days before typical NDVI imaging or traditional scouting methods? Matt Free, agronomy department manager with Evergreen FS in Bloomington, Ill., says with Ceres Imaging, they were able to pinpoint stressed plant tissue five to 10 days before disease symptoms visually appeared during a several-thousand-acre trial run in 2017.
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If farmers want to know how healthy crops are, perhaps they shouldn't trust their eyes.
Matt Free -- a manager at Evergreen FS, an agriculture company -- learned that lesson this year. His team provides crop protection services such as fertilizers and herbicides to farmers across Illinois.
After a year-long test of a variety of new technologies, Evergreen FS found artificial intelligence could identify trouble, such as fungus growth and water shortages, in corn and soybean crops weeks before the naked eye would ever realize it.
The tech, which comes from startup Ceres Imaging, offers farmers an AI analysis of photos taken from planes flying several thousand feet above fields.
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“We can see more detail than we’ve ever seen before with these images,” says Jeff Brown, “Mr. 350,” an award-winning corn grower from Blue Mound, Illinois. “It’s taking it to a whole other level of intense management. More data gives us the ability to make more and better decisions, and it helps us figure out what’s causing our success and failures out there.”
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“Evergreen has helped us create an image product we know will be a big help to farmers in Illinois and beyond,” said Ashwin Madgavkar, CEO and founder of Ceres Imaging. “We pride ourselves on providing images that solve real problems. The way we achieve that is by putting together the right product for each crop and testing it with partners to refine our approach.”
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An Oakland-based startup is sending its aerial imaging technology to the Midwestern plains to help farmers detect pests and diseases in their corn and soybean fields before an outbreak.
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In California, Ceres Imaging, an aerial spectral imagery and analytics company announced that it has secured an additional $2.5 million in Series A funding from Romulus Capital. The Ceres Imaging line of aerial imaging products helps farmers identify, monitor and quickly solve crop problems. The company provides solutions for water stress, chlorophyll content, canopy vigor, thermal analysis and plant counting.
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Ceres Imaging, which specializes in spectral imaging technology to help farmers increase yields by more efficiently applying water and fertilizer, announced it has raised $2.5 million in Series A financing from Romulus Capital.
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Ceres Imaging has raised an additional $2.5 million in Series A funding from existing investor Romulus Capital. The Oakland-based company announced a first close of this round on $5 million in May.
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With the advent of more available aerial imagery, farmers are again considering this tool for crop management. There are a range of companies stepping in to fill that role, and one player - Ceres Imaging - is expanding its territory.
Ceres Imaging, an Oakland, Calif.-based aerial spectral imagery and analytics company, raised $2.5 million in Series A funding from Romulus Capital.
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Ceres Imaging has secured an additional $2.5 million in Series A funding from Romulus Capital. This latest investment follows a $5 million Series A round led by Romulus earlier this year. That brings the aerial spectral imagery and analytics company’s funding total to $10.5 million since it was founded in 2014. It will use the recently acquired funds to reach more growers in the Midwest, California, and Australia, with a focus on accelerated product development for row and cereal crops.
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Agtech has largely seemed underserved by emerging startups, though farmers have largely proven more receptive to adopting new tech than most might assume.
Ceres Imaging has a fairly straightforward pitch. Pay for a low-flying plane to snap shots of your farm with spectral cameras and proprietary sensors, and soon after get delivered insights that can help farmers determine water and nutrient content at a plant-level while also gaining insights into problems ailing their crops like pest and disease.
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Ceres Imaging Inc., Oakland, $2.5 million: This company's aerial spectral imagery and analytics focuses on farming. Its Series A funding came from Romulus Capital.
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Ceres Imaging, an Oakland, Calif.-based aerial spectral imagery and analytics company for the agriculture market, has raised $2.5 million in new Series A funding from Romulus Capital. http://axios.link/uaOh
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Ceres Imagingのピッチ（売り込み文句）は、単純明快だ。低空から独自のセンサーを備えたスペクトルカメラで農場の航空写真を撮り、それに基づいて今作物に水や特定の栄養が必要か教え、また作物の病気や害虫の危険性についても現状や今後の可能性を教える。
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Ceres Imaging helps growers produce healthier crops and larger yields.
The Oakland-based company specializes in aerial-captured images of row crops, orchards and vineyards. After a plane equipped with high-tech equipment flies over fields, a grower can receive important crop data within 24 to 48 hours.
To increase in-season aerial imagery and enhance crop analysis, Climate Corporation is partnering with Ceres Imaging, TerrAvion and Agribotix. Farmers will have access to additional high-resolution images on top of Climate’s current interconnected platform...
Oakland, Calif.-based Ceres Imaging has raised $5 million in a Series A investment led by Romulus Capital. The startup uses cameras, sensors and software to pinpoint crop stress in the field for farmers, so that they can apply herbicides, pesticides and irrigation just where it’s needed...
The Climate Corporation partners with advanced aerial imagery providers to deliver deeper crop analysis tools for farmers...
Ceres Imaging, an aerial spectral imagery and analytics company serving the agricultural sector, today announced it has raised a $5 million Series A round led by Romulus Capital. The company, which has raised $8m to date, will use the funding to scale in its current markets, speed entry into new crops, and hire additional staff...
President Donald Trump’s get-tough attitude on immigration is spurring a surge of high-tech investment in America’s heartland, where farmers are scrambling for new ways of coping with labor shortages and slumping profits.
Finding people for the sometimes back-breaking tasks of planting and harvesting crops has become more and more difficult in the U.S., where the industry has relied on cheap immigrant labor for generations. Since taking office in January, Trump has compounded the problem with actions to limit foreign workers. But that’s also encouraged some investors to bet that growers will increasingly need new tools to cut costs and boost productivity.
Imagine a world in which robots, drones and artificial intelligence plant, monitor, harvest, and deliver your food.
This may sound like science fiction, but it is, in fact, the emerging reality in farming. “We’re seeing robots that can plant, water and seed a 10-by-10 plot, pick strawberries and shake mac nut trees. There are infrared sensors to show you how hot the plants are and how much water they need, and drones that can fertilize in perfect amounts,” says Cole Santos, co-founder of Maui Makers.
When George McFadden sits at his computer to analyze crop photos, he looks like a doctor pointing out trouble spots on an X-ray. He identifies unnatural lines, “blob-like” patterns, and streaks clouding a field. All can indicate a troubling diagnosis...
When George McFadden sits at his computer to analyze crop photos, he looks like a doctor pointing out trouble spots on an X-ray. He identifies unnatural lines, “blob-like” patterns, and streaks clouding a field. All can indicate a troubling diagnosis...
At Imagine H2O, we select 10 of the most promising water technology businesses globally each year, and commit to providing each of them with a path to market through investor and customer introductions, mentorship, and visibility...
A while back I blogged about Ashwin, one of my ex-students, who wanted to raise a seed round to build unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) with a hyperspectral camera and fly them over farm fields collecting hyperspectral images. These images, when processed with his company’s proprietary algorithms...
