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AVIGNON, FRANCE (June 5, 2023).
Hiphen and SlantRange, two pioneers in the application of remote sensing, computer vision, and artificial intelligence for agriculture, today announced they are joining forces. Hiphen is acquiring SlantRange to form the leading source of advanced crop measurement and prediction solutions to crop science companies and agricultural enterprises worldwide.
Hiphen SA, of Avignon, France, has been delivering high value data to seed breeders, product developers, food processors, vertical farms, and crop researchers across the globe since 2014. Its core competencies in image analysis and solution systems have positioned it as a trusted partner in the industry. However, it only started exploring the North American market in 2020.
"We are excited about the synergy created by SlantRange's extensive patent portfolio and growing US customer base, which perfectly complements Hiphen's analytics capability and strong European presence," stated Alexis Comar, CEO of Hiphen. "This merger will provide us with a broader capability to make impactful analytical tools accessible to the global agriculture market."
Hiphen and Slantrange are joining forces to deliver insightful drone and satellite data to plant breeders in North America.
SlantRange, Inc., of San Diego, California, USA, has built a significant presence in the North American crop input market through its innovative methods for quantifying and predicting crop performance. It brings an extensive patent portfolio, deep engineering and data sciences skill base, and industry relationships to the partnership.
Michael Ritter, CEO of SlantRange, added, "We’re thrilled to complement Hiphen’s capabilities with our own. Through this combination we’ll be able to deliver an expanded, more responsive service portfolio across a broader global footprint."
The combined company will operate globally under the Hiphen brand and will accelerate new tools to market that accurately and efficiently quantify and predict plant development in response to management, genetics, and environment. The company aims for its remote sensing and data science methods to underpin future improvements to global food production efficiency and sustainability.
"We are committed to supplying agricultural researchers and producers with innovative solutions to produce more food, feed, fuel, and fiber on fewer acres to meet the demands of the 21st century," emphasized Hiphen’s business development director Lee West.
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Hiphen is proud to announce the launch of its partnership with Planet Labs, a leading satellite imagery provider with whom we are looking to enhance the range of solutions available to the agriculture sector – from plant breeders to farmers, cooperatives and agro-industrial actors.
Planet has launched satellite constellations such as PlanetScope (2009) and SkySat (2014) that today encompass more than 150 satellites in orbit that are able to image anywhere on Earth daily at 3 meter and 72 centimeter resolution. Using Planet's API and online tools, you can access 360M+ sq km of daily imagery to monitor extensive and distributed areas of interest (AOI), and analyze trends with PlanetScope and SkySat archives.
Planet believes that space can help life on earth. Today's agriculture falls into this vision and we are making change visible thanks our near daily imagery. Hiphen's applications and expertise can leverage this information into valuable insights at the speed of change. As such Hiphen has developed robust methods to deliver daily field imagery by constantly seeking means to merge satellite imagery with sensors and with the latest advancement in crop science in order to deliver always greater value to all players across the agri-sector.
Through this partnership, both companies can leverage their technology and expertise to provide a new dimension to precision agriculture applications – that so far where essentially relying on legacy methods and tools such as Sentinel-2 (with a 10 meter resolution, and a 5-days revisit frequency). While Sentinel-2 remains a valuable asset to the agriculture sector, at Hiphen we believe that the information that we can deliver with Planet is set to augment and improve these methods – adding value to many actors in the sector and opening new perspectives to academics.
On November 7th 2019, Hiphen and Planet will be hosting a webinar that we encourage you to join to hear about the advantages behind this partnership and ask any burning questions. At this event, we will notably cover some of the hot use cases that we believe will change the game, notably explaining how plant breeders can leverage the Hiphen-Planet solution to monitor field experiments, or how we can help to improve support management tools for agro-industrial actors.
We look forward to answering your questions at this webinar.
In this first episode, Alexis Comar (Hiphen Founder & CEO) asks Professor Frédéric Baret (Research Director at INRA EMMAH) about the purpose of UMT CAPTE.
UMT CAPTE is a scientific research unit based in Avignon (France) and specialised in developing methods and technologies for high-throughput plant phenotyping applications. The state-of-the-art technology and precision tools developed at UMT CAPTE help to overcome agricultural and environmental challenges faced by the actors within the agriculture industry.
The strength of this research unit lies in the close collaboration between Technical Institutes such as Arvalis, Hiphen (a privately-owned company) and the French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA).
Associate partners include: Terres Inovia, ITB, CTIFL, Geves and ACTA.
UMT CAPTE was created in January 2013 and is approved by the French Ministry of Agriculture and Food to develop tools and methods for an efficient use of sensors and remote sensing in agriculture.
As such, CAPTE stands for "CAPteurs (sensors) et TELedectection (remote sensing)".
To learn more about the projects led by CAPTE members, and the methods and solutions we introduced, please visit our CAPTE website or contact us at contact@hiphen-plant.com. A list of the 40+ scientific papers we published since our inception is also available in our archive.
