TerraTech: Pixel.AI Geoanalytic Platform

Main article:

• Geoanalytics
• Geoinformation system
• Data mining Data mining
• IT in the agro-industrial complex of Russia
• Artificial intelligence in agriculture (agro-industrial complex)

2022

Optimization of initial space data selection mechanisms

TERRA TECH JSC, a company of the Russian Space Systems holding (RKS, part of the Roscosmos State Corporation) announced on November 16, 2022, the release of an update to the automatic platform for interpreting satellite images Pixel.AI.

Free beta testing platforms started in July 2022. Over the past months, more than 5,000 users have placed orders. The total area of ​ ​ the analyzed farmlands exceeded 760 thousand hectares. The geography of orders is extensive and covers not only traditional agricultural regions, but also zones of riskier. agriculture The opposite communication with users helped developers determine the priority directions for the further development of the system.

In particular, the Pixel.AI platform has a product - "Crop Development Dynamics," which answers one of the most frequent client requests about the state and development of crops. Evaluation based on space images is performed in a geoservice using various kinds of index images (NDVI, EVI). The combined functionality of the recognition of the used lands and the ability to analyze a series of index images allow users to track the dynamics of crop development for each selected field on an interactive graph.

In the first update, the company focused on expanding its suite of agricultural products. Calculating indices showing the intensity of plant development is an integral part of any such applications. A distinctive feature is the flexibility of the system: when ordering, you can load your field boundaries or use automatic selection. The company has improved the mechanisms for selecting source space data, increased the speed of processing by artificial intelligence, and also added convenient ways to pay for an order. Now you can do this online by bank card or account. Although testing has already been completed, nevertheless, the ability to test the technology without payment remains - 5000 hectares of order are still available to all users, noted the general director of TERRA TECH JSC, Maxim BOLTACHEV.

The platform's capabilities are not limited to products that are publicly available. Pixel.AI, as a platform solution, allows government and commercial structures to adapt solutions to the organization's tasks and connect them with existing information systems. TERRA TECH specialists are working to optimize the quality of analytics and system performance, as well as develop services that will soon be presented.

Help of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Primorsky Territory in proving the misuse of state subsidies

The automatic platform for processing space images Pixel.AI TERRA TECH JSC (the company of the Russian Space Systems holding of Roscosmos State Corporation) helped law enforcement agencies prove the misuse of state subsidies by a Far Eastern company. This was reported by "Russian Space Systems" on October 17, 2022.

The Investigation Department Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia Primorsky Territory opened a criminal case against the management of one of the local companies, which received subsidies from the regional budget under the state program of Primorsky Krai "Development agriculture and regulation of markets for agricultural products, raw materials and. food Improving the standard of living of the rural population of Primorsky Krai for 2013-2020. " The investigation assumed that the farmland was not actually cultivated or not fully cultivated, and the targeted payments were appropriated by the management for selfish purposes. information Ministry of Agriculture In the Primorsky Territory, the damage caused to the regional budget may amount to at least 3.4 million. rubles

To confirm these suspicions, investigators sent a request to the Roscosmos State Corporation for information on the use of several land plots based on data from remote sensing of the Earth (DZZ) from space for 2015-2020. The geoanalytical platform Pixel.Al of TERRA TECH formed reports on the use of land for each year, which showed that during this period there were indeed cases of non-completion of agricultural land declared for state subsidies.

Space images have long been used by law enforcement agencies in practice to confirm the fact of a criminal or administrative offense. During the investigative actions, the Ministry of Internal Affairs appealed to the Roscosmos State Corporation, where they were able to obtain the necessary information, moreover, in a fully automatic version. As part of the case, face-to-face inspections were carried out by the Rosselkhoznadzor, as a result of which it became possible to study the evidence in more detail, compare and take into account all available data, noted the senior investigator of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Primorsky Territory Andrei Kiprai.

The state corporation Roscosmos also provided the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Primorsky Territory with high-resolution archival data from the Federal Data Fund of the DZZ.

Platform launch

On July 11, 2022, Roscosmos announced the launch of the Pixel.AI geoanalytical platform. It will include several services, and the first among them is aimed at supporting Russian agriculture.

Pixel.AI is a development of Terra Tech, part of the Russian Space Systems holding (RKS, in turn, is part of the Roscosmos state corporation). The solution uses artificial intelligence algorithms that independently select and interpret satellite images for the required period of time, and the user receives an analytical report on the requested territory.

Roscosmos launched a geoanalytical platform

To track the state of the territory, the user needs to perform three actions - select the area of ​ ​ interest, date range and send the order to work. A smart algorithm will independently select data from remote sensing of the Earth (remote sensing), determine the boundaries of fields, categories of their use, and form a ready-made report for unloading.

It is noted that objective data obtained as a result of automatic processing of space images are useful in the selection and inventory of farmland, putting land into operation, assessing land plots, exercising control over the territories used, as well as in deciding on lending, subsidizing and insurance of enterprises, monitoring collateral.

According to the developers, the flexible platform Pixel.AI closes the information needs of both farmers and small agricultural companies, as well as large businesses in the person of agricultural holdings, banks and insurance companies working with agricultural assets.

Any registered user can get acquainted with the Pixel.AI product for free as part of beta testing until August 31, 2022 and promptly receive a report on the use of agricultural land up to 30,000 hectares with visualized analytics.^[1]

You can order standard products and get results using the service web interface. In addition, the technology allows you to create customized solutions for your own information systems using the algorithm designer with API access.

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