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TerrAvion Uses AWS to Help Farmers Improve Crop Yields Through High-Resolution Aerial Images

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公司规模
SME
地区
  • America
国家
  • United States
  • Brazil
产品
  • Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2)
  • Amazon S3 Glacier
  • Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3)
  • AWS Lambda
技术栈
  • Amazon Web Services (AWS)
  • Cloud Storage
  • Cloud Computing
实施规模
  • Enterprise-wide Deployment
影响指标
  • Cost Savings
  • Productivity Improvements
技术
  • 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云计算
  • 基础设施即服务 (IaaS) - 云存储服务
适用行业
  • 农业
适用功能
  • 物流运输
用例
  • 远程资产管理
  • 预测性维护
服务
  • 云规划/设计/实施服务
  • 数据科学服务
关于客户
TerrAvion is a company that provides aerial images to farmers throughout the United States and Brazil. The company’s core service—OverView—delivers subscription imagery overnight at each key agronomic event in the growing season. These farmers use imagery to make decisions that lead to more sustainable and profitable agriculture. The company is one of the largest providers of high-resolution aerial images by volume for farmers across the US and Brazil. TerrAvion runs its aerial-image data-processing application on Amazon EC2 and uses Amazon S3 and Amazon S3 Glacier to store multiple terabytes of images every day.
挑战
Commodity-crop farmers across the United States often depend on satellite images of their fields to get an updated view of the health of their crops. However, the resolution of these images is not high enough for farmers to get the most accurate picture of their fields. In fact, for many specialty-crop growers, satellite images are somewhere between useless and misleading. TerrAvion is changing that. The company uses airplanes and drones to obtain full-frame and thermal images from high-resolution cameras. TerrAvion gives farmers, retailers, agronomists, and ag distributors the best possible pictures through OverView, the company’s core subscription service. “Our pictures offer resolutions of 9 or 18 centimeters per pixel, which satellite can’t do,” says Stephen Smith, CTO of TerrAvion. Using such high-resolution images, farmers can more accurately view the health of a plant.
解决方案
TerrAvion started from day one as a cloud-native Amazon Web Services (AWS) customer. “We knew we were going to collect multiple terabytes per day, per aircraft, and needed to deliver fully processed images to our customers the day after the photos were taken,” Smith says. “Without the speed and economy of the public cloud, TerrAvion could not exist— everyone thinks drones are the big disruption in agriculture, but, in fact, it is 4G wireless and the public cloud.” TerrAvion was already using Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances, powered by Intel® Xeon® processors, to support its online image-processing application. To accommodate its increasing image-storage needs, the company began using Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) to ingest the aerial images each day. “Amazon S3 is highly scalable and reliable, which makes it the best solution for us. We use it to store aerial images as raw data,” says Smith. TerrAvion also uses Amazon S3 Glacier for long-term image-data storage and AWS Lambda to automatically identify when image data has been uploaded to the processing application. The company partners with several analytics technology companies to integrate image analysis and machine learning for farmers, who can turn that analysis into business insights about crop yields. “Being on AWS is important to us, because almost all of our partners are on AWS, which allows us to serve them terabytes of data from our Amazon S3 buckets as though our infrastructure was theirs, for free,” Smith says.
运营影响
  • Relying on the AWS Cloud, TerrAvion can ingest, store, and process high-resolution aerial images. During the growing season, the company delivers the images to customers the next day through an online subscription service.
  • Using AWS to support its thermal-imagery capabilities, TerrAvion can detect equipment issues before they cause serious problems for farmers.
  • TerrAvion can focus more on developing new features, even with a small development team, because AWS handles the infrastructure of the company’s aerial imagery application.
数量效益
  • Helps farmers avoid hundreds of thousands of dollars in maintenance costs
  • Helps agricultural customers improve crop yields

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