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Water Security
Cloud computing market size by the year 2027
Of all ICT spending will be on cloud by 2030
Kingdom's cloud providers grew 2021-2022
of large enterprises in Saudi Arabia had already adopted cloud services
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Description
Space based solutions to monitor date palm plantations and it's health
Dates are economically, socially, culturally, and ecologically important in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries. They substantially affect countries' economies, agricultural infrastructure, and vegetation patterns. This makes the care of date palm trees critically important, especially given unique threats like the Red Palm Weevil.
This track aims to develop Space based solutions utilizing Earth observation data to provide inclusive insights for farm operations. These solutions will address logistical and temporal challenges, pest detection problems, tree inspection and counting methods and other issues that multiply costs when managing large agricultural areas.
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 Deliverables
Identify individual palm trees and potentially provide information about the size, age, height, and type of palm tree
Provide spatial-temporal insights on the patterns of disease spread
Analyze the health status per tree, and classify the likelihood of RPW presence and infestation level
Prediction Service for a defined period of time
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.
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.