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Dans l’actualité | Tech Monitor
Big Tech is coming for the weather
Bad weather threatens the future of a farm in a variety of ways. Rain, of course is welcome; a prolonged downpour, however, is liable to drown or wash away a newly sown crop. Rapid changes in temperatures are also dangerous.…
Dans l’actualité | IEEE Spectrum
Microsoft Predicts Weather for Individual Farms: DeepMC uses machine learning and AI to localize weather data
Imagine you’re a farmer in the northern United States. It’s early spring, and nighttime temperatures are just starting to rise above freezing. You need to fertilize your newly-planted crops, but you also know that at freezing temperatures, the fertilizer will…
Dans l’actualité | IEEE Spectrum
Microsoft Predicts Weather for Individual Farms
Researchers at Microsoft have developed a framework called DeepMC that can very accurately predict local weather, and could be used by farmers, renewable energy producers, and others.
Micro-climate predictions: Enabling hyper-local decisions for agriculture and renewables
| Peeyush Kumar et Ranveer Chandra
It is springtime in Eastern Washington, USA, and the temperature is slightly above freezing. A farmer is preparing to fertilize his fields of wheat and lentils as winter runoff and frost are nearly finished. The plants are susceptible to fertilizer…