That's an excellent assessment, and we're actively developing our product in that direction. You can already upload your machine data files to create yield maps in FarmLogs, and this year we released the Flow, a hardware device that passively listens on the CANBus to create yield maps in real time on a FarmLogs account. We will be giving the same treatment to as-applied and as-planted data as well.
There are lot of challenges in this area. There are no open data standards and probably most farms in our target market do not have access to that type of equipment. Or if they do, they don't have great records of it. For them we offer a sort of progressive enhancement. We've licensed five years worth of satellite imagery to give us reasonable baselines of precision field performance history. And while we also need management decisions for our models, we can make use of manually entered data as well as machine generated precision data.
Over the summer, we piloted some products built from these models with great results, and will be announcing them soon. We're really excited about it.
There are lot of challenges in this area. There are no open data standards and probably most farms in our target market do not have access to that type of equipment. Or if they do, they don't have great records of it. For them we offer a sort of progressive enhancement. We've licensed five years worth of satellite imagery to give us reasonable baselines of precision field performance history. And while we also need management decisions for our models, we can make use of manually entered data as well as machine generated precision data.
Over the summer, we piloted some products built from these models with great results, and will be announcing them soon. We're really excited about it.