New Linux Foundation dataset aids in food traceability, carbon tracking and crop production - SiliconANGLE

The Linux Foundation has today announced that its AgStack project will host a new open-source code base and computation engine that offers a data dataset of registry data for agricultural fields to aid in food traceability, carbon tracking, crop production and other field-level analytics. The computation engine is fully automated and creates, maintains and hosts the global dataset based on code contributed by Dr. Sherrie Wang, Dr. Francois Waldner and Professor David Lobell at The Center on Food Security and the Environment at Stanford University. Funding for the project came from various organizations, including the NASA Harvest Consortium. Said to be the first of its kind, the AgStack Asset Registry dataset was built and is continuously updated using data from satellites and actual field registrations that contain information on boundaries, not ownership. The data is then used to train machine learning models to ascertain more boundaries.