Deal is set to bolster Trinity’s software platform Sandy
Trinity AgTech has acquired a suite of satellite data analytics technology from Agrimetrics,
The acquisition includes advanced satellite imagery analysis tools developed by Agrimetrics over the past decade, and used across private and public sector projects from farm yield forecasting to environmental monitoring.
Trinity is a part of Trinity Natural Capital Group, while Agrimetrics is a provider of cloud-based data marketplace and analytics tools for the agri-food and related sectors.
Trinity AgTech’s flagship software platform, Sandy, is a toolkit for measuring and improving natural assets, covering soil health, carbon, biodiversity, water quality and financial performance, in one integrated system.
The new acquisition completes the loop on all areas of data capture, according to the firm. The company’s platform already utilises information from farmer observations, on-farm software and instruments, soil tests, and remote sensing such as LiDAR scanning, with analytics developed in-house.
By combining these sources with leading satellite imagery and in-house AI-enabled analytics, Trinity AgTech explained that its smart software will deliver near real-time insights on crop and grass analytics and insights, soil conditions, water flows and overall natural capital assets across every field in the UK, Europe, the US and well beyond.
With more frequent and detailed data flowing from multiple sources into the Sandy platform, the quantity and quality of insights will further improve, making analytics even more robust, credible and user-centric, it added.
Farmers will be alerted earlier to issues such as crop stress, disease risk or water shortages, and will be able to quantify outcomes, from yield forecasts to carbon sequestration, with greater credibility.
This is designed to bolster farm resilience and profitability by helping to optimise inputs, reduce waste, protect soils and increase productivity, the company said.
“This passing of the torch from Agrimetrics to Trinity AgTech is a win for UK and global agri-tech,” said Dr Hosein Khajeh-Hosseiny, founder and executive chairman of Trinity Natural Capital Group.
“We’re ensuring that the UK’s investment and immense expertise in satellite analytics will carry on and scale up. Integrating Agrimetrics’ market-leading technology into our ecosystem of data sources means farmers, land managers and other food and farming stakeholders will have even more robust analytics, with a much reduced data collection burden.”
