Top Crop

A simple app that provides growers with essential data analytics on their crops.

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Inspiration

Growers have access to a whole variety of information about their crops but no accessable way to record it. We sought to create a product that requires little to no up front cost that provides growers with data analysis on their farms over time.

What it does

The app allows the grower multiple kinds of image analysis. For this hackathon, we focused on creating an algorithm that analyzed images for diseases. With each photograph, the GPS coordinates and timestamp will be saved and plotted on a historic map to give the growers insights over time on the frequency and location of diseased plants within their farms.

How we built it

We created an app in Android Studio.

Challenges we ran into

The initial algorithm for the image processing was written in MATLAB so it needed to be converted into Java for Android Studio.

Accomplishments that we're proud of

Creating accurate visualizations of diseases on various image sources of diseased plants.

What we learned

We learned the complexity of building and connecting both front and back end code. Simple functionalities such as camera access proved harder than expected.

What's next for Top Crop

The camera functionality and map with the GPS coordinates of each photo are what we hope to fix next.

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