Country club groundskeepers have long performed golf course reconnaissance on foot or cart, but now agriculture intelligence company Taranis is seeking to apply its three-layered aerial imaging and AI technology to maintaining crisp fairways and nattily trimmed greens.
Taranis uses satellite, plane, and drone imagery to monitor growing conditions and report problem areas before they worsen. The Tel Aviv-based company began working with farmers on high-volume commodity crops such as corn, cotton, sugarcane, soybean, wheat, and potatoes. They count clients in the U.S., Canada, Brazil, Argentina, Russia, Ukraine, and Australia.
The company is now working with one golf-course consulting company based in the U.