HORIZON-CL6-2027-02-FARM2FORK-05: Supporting farmers' profitability [GPR Technology]

B-hive has developed a GPR-based technology that help growers understand the status of their crop and forecast harvest to ultimately support profitability, resilience and sustainability. This technology is a successful adaptation from Defesense technology (i.e. GPR for bomb detection) to Agriculture (i.e. Crop bulk detection).

Our Ground-penetrating-radar technology is TRL4 for potatoes, salads, TR3 for carrots/parsnips. B-hive has developed a GPR-based technology that scans crops during the growing season and, using digital signal processing and machine learning, transforms said scans into bulking information. Used in potatoes for bulking estimations that, combined with drone imagery, give information "above and below" fields, calculating optimal burn-down dates for fields at a region level. This allows growers to burn-down areas of their fields when maximum marketable yield has been achieved. This technology has also been used on salads to allow automatic rigs to adapt their blades to cut salads real-time, again, optimising cuts to increase productivity in the fields.