Future of Agriculture FOA 175: Precision Ag Decision Support with Anastasia Volkova of FluroSat
Anastasia Volkova is the CEO and Founder of FluroSat, a company that provides scientifically-proven solutions to common agricultural problems through advanced remote sensing technologies and data from both airborne and satellite platforms. She is also an aeronautical engineer and obtained her Ph.D. in Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering from the University of Sydney. Anastasia uses her vast academic knowledge as well as experience in project management in various organizations to make FluroSat the next big thing in AgTech.
Anastasia joins me today to discuss how FluroSat works to provide artificial intelligence (AI) for Precision Agriculture Decision Support. She shares why she decided to work in agriculture and what drove her to start FluroSat. She explains how their approach can help farmers and agronomists improve their data collection process and gather more accurate data from their farms. She also explains the limitations of their product and why they decided to expand their service to the US instead of focusing exclusively on Australian agricultural markets.
“The barriers to adoption of precision agriculture are, first and foremost, the fact that data is siloed.” - Anastasia Volkova
This Week on The Future of Agriculture Podcast:
- When she decided to stop being an aeronautical engineer and focus on agriculture.
- Barriers that are preventing farmers from making AI part of precision agriculture.
- How FluroSat's approach can help agronomists and farmers gather data for their farms.
- How their product works and the important data it provides to farmers.
- Success stories where their product improved a farmer's business.
- Where her experience in aeronautical engineering comes into play.
- The limitations of their product in the context of crop types.
- The reasons they decided to expand in the US instead of focusing on Australia.
- How FluroSat makes money and makes their investors happy.
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