We have recently released the first version of the Global FieldID User Interface to facilitate the discovery of the agricultural land plots that have already been delineated and identified with a unique Global FieldID. New features will be progressively added to the UI to improve and increase the tool’s functionalities. The platform’s coverage has also been expanded to include regions in Brazil, the US, Italy and Spain, adding to the already existing country-wide coverage of the UK, France and the Netherlands. 

 

A bit of background on Global FieldID. 

Adding these new geographical areas to the Global FieldID (GFID) coverage is a significant step towards our company’s goal of mapping plots of agricultural land, globally.  The GFID platform, after ingesting field boundaries, assigns one unique alphanumeric code that allows to identify agricultural land consistently, establishing and respecting a common standard.  In this way, all land parcels can be identified across the digital farming tools of users that adopt Global FieldID for their farming operations and along the food supply chain. 

 

Who is this useful for? 

The Global FieldID (GFID) platform is primarily used as an API integration to be utilized within a company’s existing digital farming tool. Alternatively, the newly released Global FieldID UI offers an accessible platform for farmers, that may not have their own digital tools, but want to communicate the location of their fields to other participants in the food supply chain or for internal business processes. 

Also, for advisors in the farming and food sector, GFID UI is a useful tool to simplify communications with their partners or within their business. For example, food companies and traders can collaborate with farmers using the UI as a simple way of capturing the origin of their crop. Similarly, input manufacturers can collect information about where their products were applied. 

The GFID UI can also be useful to soil laboratories, using the GFID alphanumeric code to correctly index soil samples received by farmers. Contractors can also make use of it to precisely identify a plot of land where they need to carry out a service. 

What’s next? 

We are looking to further expand our coverage in the coming months using multiple sources: open cadasters, government databases and boundary delineation from satellite imagery. Our in-house team is working closely with DigiFarm’s team, our partner that provides us with field boundaries through satellite observation. 

At the moment, the GFID User Interface allows you to look up fields. Additional features are being developed; the functions ‘Create a New Field’ and ‘Update My Field’ will enable the user to update their fields and boundaries through the UI. 

For customers interested in the GFID API integration, an overview of the API’s functions and how to connect with the GFID platforms is available through our Developer Portal on our website. 

 

 

 

 

 

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