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4 Monitoring Date Palms Pest and Disease

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Saudi Arabia's global ranking in date exports

60M

Annual date palm tree inspections in Saudi Arabia

globe
USD 542M

Global Addressable Market for Resources Monitoring

city-02
USD 27M

Regional Addressable Market for Resources Monitoring

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What unique value does the company bring to the challenge track owner?
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The company is registered as a legal entity and is established in an EU or/and MENA region.
The company provides Space Applications related solutions
Company has a functioning prototype and is placed and sold to clients
The company is ready to establish business relationships with customers in Saudi Arabia

CHALLENGE SCOPE

KSA has a growth policy to improve the dates production and export markets

Dates are economically, socially, culturally, and ecologically important in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and around the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. Dates also play important roles in the history, heritage, and socioeconomic life of the population.

We are looking for innovative solutions that utilize Earth observation data to provide a holistic solution facing pest prevention centers like WEQAA in KSA. Such centers face major issues in logistics, pest detection, response time, database management for inspection and tree counting and other problems which have massive associated costs to them.

Challenge Goals

Globe

Use Earth observation and remote-sensing for precision Agriculture

elements

Scale detection and monitoring of date palm trees for stress indicators

water-energy

Holistic solution that improves the efficiency of pest and disease management in date palms

Cost-1

Reduce the costs of monitoring and detection of pest and disease in the Dates Farming industry

Challenge Deliverables

Tree

Identify individual palm trees and potentially provide information about the size, age, height, and type of palm tree

virus

Provide spatial-temporal insights on the patterns of disease spread

Vector

Analyze the health status per tree, and classify the likelihood of RPW presence and infestation level

clock-04

Prediction Service for a defined period of time

Track Q&A Session

Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture

The ministry oversees comprehensive policies for water and food security in Saudi Arabia. It supports agricultural development and service improvement, collaborating with the private sector and relevant entities for sustainable environment, water, and agriculture management.
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Ministry of Environment, Water and Agriculture
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WEQAA Centre

Weqaya focuses on preventing and controlling the plant pests and animal diseases, and protecting the public health from risks of Zoonotic Diseases between human and animals, and any type of diseases victors.
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WEQAA Centre
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Out of*
English Exam Type*
Attachments (.pdf, .png, .jpg, .jpeg)*
CV*(5 MB)
English Proficiency Certificate*(5 MB)
Graduation Certificate Or Letter from the University*(5 MB)
Academic Transcript*(5 MB)