The Agriculture and Climate (ACC) Cluster will host a planning session for a new focus area on automated agriculture and AI (""Agro-AI""). Some initial ideas on possible activities in this space were presented at the ACC October 2019 telecon, including those related to the “Data-to-Decisions” ESIP Lab project (https://www.esipfed.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/Wee.pdf). Currently, there are many initiatives and funding opportunities for automated agriculture with AI. The National Science Foundation, e.g., recently announced a program aimed at significantly advancing research in AI (https://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=299329&org=NSF&from=news), including, in its initial set of high-priority areas, “AI-Driven Innovation in Agriculture and the Food System.”
Among the topics for discussion in this planning session will be related proposal opportunities and sponsoring an ACC breakout session on agriculture and AI at the ESIP 2020 Summer Meeting.
How to Prepare for this Session: TBD; there will be an intro presentation, prior to the group discussion. This presentation may be made available ahead of the meeting in the scheduled session page.
Presentations:View Recording: https://youtu.be/GhnSINRFNBgTakeaways- Next step 1: Conduct a survey of available dashboards, existing data, ML use cases, existing APIs
- Next step 2: Decide on an example question for a use case
- Next step 3: Define and survey potential users
