Awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** agintel, a spinoff company of the…

Awards issued prior to january 20, 2025, were funded under previous administrations and may not reflect the priorities and policies of the current administration.** agintel, a spinoff company of the university of florida (UF), has licensed two novel technologies from UF: agroview and agrosense. Agroview, a digital twin of an agricultural field, can deliver accurate zone-based fertility and prescription maps for precision nutrient applications. Agrosense can convert a traditional fertilizer applicator (sprayer or spreader) to a smart machine for precision nutrient application. With agrosense, the smart machine can vary the amount of the applied chemicals based on each tree's size and leaf density. In phase I of this sbir project, we integrated these two novel AI technologies and developed a more accurate tree level based precision nutrient management, named smart nutrient. This system integrates agrosense's real-time data (e.g., tree canopy volume and leaf density) with the provided prescription map (from agroview) to adjust the application rate for each individual tree. A data fusion algorithm was developed on agrosense for this purpose (AKA, determining in real-time the tree canopy volume and leaf density and also identifying the desired application rate based on the management zone from the prescription map).the specific objectives of the sbir phase II project are to (I) enhance and evaluate in commercial orchards the agroview's fertility/prescription map and the smart nutrient feature (integration of agroview and agrosense), and (II) enhance, field-evaluate, and finalize the development of the smart sprayer and smart fertilizer spreader. To the best of our knowledge, we are the first to develop this novel technology for tree crops.