GREET MODEL

Powerful Tech Solution Offers Precision and Ease for Measuring Agricultural Carbon Intensity

With climate change posing the single biggest health threat facing humanity¹, industries worldwide are responding, the agricultural industry in particular. The agricultural industry is the world’s second-largest emitter of greenhouse gas, second only to the energy sector.²  

THE SOLUTION

To address the challenges GREET posed, Object Computing:

• Improved the precision of the model by deconstructing the data and features that limited the output resolution.
• Increased speed and ease through process automation.
• Boosted accuracy by supporting field-level units.

Object Computing merged two powerful technologies, its new Asterisms framework and Google Earth Engine, to provide a tool enabling large-scale, precision-ag, geospatial modeling improvements alongside an interactive data management experience. 

Asterisms, Object Computing’s proprietary microapp framework, facilitates quick building of custom, interactive microapps that focus on data and business logic. What may have taken six months to deliver, the Asterisms platform was able to deliver in less than four weeks.  

Integrating the powerful services of Google Earth Engine allows that business logic to include pipelines of geospatial modeling and record-keeping at any scale. Inside the new Asterisms GREET app, farmers were able to see their GREET calculation immediately by inputting field boundaries on an interactive map along with a set of field practice parameters (crop type, energy use, fertilizer use. Some inputs such as county, are automatically registered based on the field’s boundaries. Farmers can also register measurements for multiple seasons of their farm to track results over time.