FluroSat Adds Iteris ClearAg Environmental Intelligence to Enhance Crop Health Decision Support
Announcement posted by FluroSat 09 May 2019
SANTA ANA, Calif. / SYDNEY, Aus. – May 9, 2019 – Iteris, Inc. (NASDAQ: ITI), the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, and FluroSat Pty Ltd (FluroSat), an agronomic analytics and crop health solutions provider, today announced FluroSat’s addition of Iteris ClearAg® environmental intelligence to FluroSat’s crop health services platform.
Under the terms of the software-as-a-service agreement, ClearAg will provide location-specific environmental intelligence through its application programming interface (API) to FluroSat’s crop health services platform. The integrated solution will enhance FluroSat’s scientifically validated climatics, crop yield modelling and decision support platform for agronomists and progressive farmers in several of the world’s largest agricultural regions.
“At a time of unprecedented change throughout the agricultural industry, innovation is especially important to increase productivity and ensure global food security. We are excited to work with Iteris to integrate ClearAg’s environmental intelligence into our crop health services platform to improve farm efficiency, sustainability and profitability for our users,” said Anastasia Volkova, CEO and founder of FluroSat. “ClearAg’s location-specific current, forecast and historical weather data will complement our decision support capability; thereby, enabling our users to make the best possible decisions for successful farm management.”
“We are thrilled that FluroSat has selected ClearAg’s environmental intelligence to power its crop health services platform for agronomists and progressive farmers in the U.S., Australia, New Zealand and Latin America,” said Jim Chambers, senior vice president and general manager, Agriculture and Weather Analytics at Iteris. “Through its FluroSense® and ProductionWise services, FluroSat is dedicated to harnessing deep spectral insights to help farmers and growers improve their yield, and I am proud that ClearAg’s weather data will ultimately help to feed the planet more sustainably.”
With Iteris ClearAg, FluroSat’s platform users will have access to location-specific information including temperature, rainfall, humidity, wind speed, Dewpoint and solarwave radiation, thus enabling critical decisions to be made for crop management.
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About FluroSat
FluroSat is a crop health solutions provider that uses the power of scientific modelling, AI and remotely sensed data to deliver early, accurate and actionable information on farm performance and plant nutrition to farmers and agronomists. Founded in 2016, FluroSat has been supporting its users through FluroSense®, ProductionWise and CottonMap to optimize and accelerate agricultural productivity growth. Visit www.flurosat.com for more information or join our conversations on LinkedIn and Twitter.
About Iteris, Inc.
Iteris is the global leader in applied informatics for transportation and agriculture, turning big data into big breakthrough solutions. We collect, aggregate and analyze data on traffic, roads, weather, water, soil and crops to generate precise informatics that lead to safer transportation and smarter farming. Municipalities, government agencies, crop science companies, farmers and agronomists around the world use our solutions to make roads safer and travel more efficient, as well as farmlands more sustainable, healthy and productive. Visit www.iteris.com for more information and join the conversation on Twitter, LinkedIn and
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