Feeding the Masses

Here’s a pointer to Ben Paynter‘s brief article in Wired 16.07 about using high tech to forecast seasonal crop production.

…the company sorts 100 gigs of intel every day, adding to a database of 50 terabytes and counting. It’s also moving into world production-prediction — wheat fields in Russia, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine are already in the data set, as are corn and soy plots in Brazil and Argentina. The firm expects to reach petabyte scale in five years.

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