Dutch startup bags fresh funding to tailor orchard farming for every tree

Aurea Imaging, an Utrecht-based agtech startup, has raised €2.8mn in a Series A round to scale up deployment of its sensor system for orchard farming. Founded in 2016, Aurea provides agronomic intelligence products for precision orchard management on the individual tree level. To maximise productivity by customising treatments for each tree, the startup has developed TreeScout, a tractor-mounted sensor system. Powered by 3D computer vision and edge computing processing capacity, TreeScout scans the trees as the tractor drives through the orchard. Then, it collects data and uploads it on the cloud. TreeScout asseses each tree, looking at factors such as…

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