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Archer Materials (ASX: AXE) has teamed-up with GlobalFoundries to work towards industry fabrication of its 12CQ quantum chip (12CQ chip) technology.

Described as a world-leading semiconductor foundry GlobalFoundries is providing Archer with expertise, equipment, and manufacturing processes to further develop its 12CQ chip qubit technology.

Commenting on the agreement with GlobalFoundries, Archer chief executive officer Dr Mohammad Choucair said the company was now positioned to leverage GlobalFoundries capabilities to accelerate development of this technology.

Archers goal is to ensure its qubit materials are suitable for industrial-scale semiconductor nanofabrication, with the materials to then be incorporated in mobile-compatible devices.

To boost the fabrication its 12CQ chip devices and components, Archer recognised it needed to collaborate with industrial-scale manufacturers in the global semiconductor supply chain.

Under todays announced agreement, Archer has access to GlobalFoundries facilities and manufacturing processes to help identify pathways for high-volume manufacturing of the 12CQ chip devices and components.

Dr Choucair noted that current quantum computing qubit components are reliant on custom fabrication. This compares to traditional computing circuits that are manufactured in established industrial semiconductor facilities.

He added integrating qubit materials with industrial-scale foundries is a significant challenge in developing quantum processors.

Archer is the only ASX-listed entity, and one of few worldwide, that is developing qubit processor technology.

The agreement with GlobalFoundries follows Archers news last week that it had achieved a long-term goal of fabricating biochip device components less than 10 nanometres (nm) in size.

Archer began nanofabrication processes in April 2021 with the aim of developing the sub-10nm biochip features.

The company has now fabricated sub-10nm features reproducibly and reliably through the development of several advanced lithographic processes on a silicon wafer in a clean-room environment.

Achieving sub-10 nanometre fabrication of electronic device components is an excellent outcome on our path to developing Archers biochip technology, and one that demonstrates the world-class capabilities of our pioneering team, Dr Choucair said.

Dr Choucair says the companys semiconductor devices push the boundaries of modern technology.

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Over the summer, University President Peter Salovey created multiple new leadership roles, including a new position on his cabinet vice president for information technology supporting Yales commitment to equipping members of our community with the necessary digital resources to teach, learn, and pursue new knowledge and solutions for pressing global challenge.

Sarah Cook 12:47 am, Sep 06, 2022

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University President Peter Salovey recently announced the appointment of John Barden to a new role on the University cabinet, vice president for information technology, in addition to his previous role of chief information officer.

This new university officer level role elevates Barden to now be a member of the University cabinet, Saloveys circle of advisers. While it does not change Bardens focus, as he already served to oversee IT systems, he now reports to Jack Callahan, senior vice president for operations, and will be involved in university-wide discussions.

An organization with 320 years of history doesnt make new officer-level positions very often, Barden told the News. I believe senior leaders recognized it was time to acknowledge our dependency and our necessity around having good solid digital infrastructure, [and] had reached the point where elevating the role seemed an appropriate decision.

This new role points to the continuing goals of the University to strengthen its digital infrastructure in the midst of a large network update and continued efforts to optimize hybrid and virtual options for University employees.

Barden said the role represents a reflection of progress that will increase visibility and collaboration throughout the University.

The enhanced organizational structure also will place the CIO position on equal footing with other roles that report directly to the senior vice president for operations, including the vice presidents for facilities, finance and human resources, as well as with most of our peer schools, Salovey and Callahan wrote in a joint announcement.

In the June 24 message to the Yale community, Salovey and Callahan wrote that Yale has a longstanding responsibility to create and share knowledge that improves the world for this and future generations, and noted that information technology is essential to this mission. They also added that the pandemic has driven this recent push for modernization.

Barden agreed that even before the pandemic highlighted the Universitys dependency on technology, the modernization that his team is working on was long desired.

When I started here five years ago, I think its fair to say that people were not super happy with how Information Technology was doing, relative to the complexity and the needs of the institution, Barden told the News.

Callahan said there is an infrastructure component to IT that the University was mediocre at before Barden came to Yale, and that investments in IT in the past have not been well coordinated.

Given the size of the University, Callahan emphasized the importance of Information Technology, as it is used for facilitating and supporting research, human resources systems on the administrative side and clinical practices.

Barden told the News that his teams work is centered around supporting the Universitys mission in these different facets related to Information Technology.

Weve tried to align all of our work in Information Technology through the lens of the four missions of the institution, Barden said. So we really talked about academic priorities, research priorities, clinical priorities and cultural heritage and museums priorities. And by turning it that way, weve started talking less about technology and more about institutional goals and positioning Information Technology as an enabler for those objectives.

In Bardens time at Yale, he has helped develop the Program Management and Operations Excellence Team, and he helped develop One IT at Yale, which makes it easier for students and faculty to find resources online.

Barden has also been involved with the ongoing project that began in 2020 to modernize the campus network, which involves over 10,000 pieces of equipment that need replacing. The network update is almost finished in the Yale School of Medicine and is set to finish for the rest of the University in approximately three years, according to Barden.

Today, Barden told the News he is focused on developing multiple modalities of teaching, as well as supporting the increasingly-computational research taking place at Yale. Many of these issues are school-specific, such as in the Yale School of Nursing and the Yale School of Management, where some classes may be offered online in the future.

In addition to developing virtual learning options, Barden said that Yale is working with a few of its vendors on prototyping hybrid options that could be used for University employees.

Sarah Cook covers President Salovey's Cabinet and works on the social media team. Originally from Nashville, Tennessee, she is a first year in Grace Hopper majoring in Neuroscience.

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Pune-based Vidcare Technologies, which has developed a credit-card-sized chip to revolutionise how blood testing is being performed, has acquired pre-seed funding of $300K in the last week of August. Called Mu-sure, the technology will first be deployed in the testing of hypothyroidism in people, especially women during pregnancy.

We had realised that there was almost no way to carry out blood tests outside of a centralised lab and get results easily and intuitively at home. One of the outcomes was that since a lot of people, especially in rural India, were unwilling to travel to a lab or or nearby health centres for tests, a lot of medical conditions and illnesses were not diagnosed, says Rohan Aggarwal, who founded Vidcare in 2017 with Karan Aggarwal and Saurabh Kumar Srivastava.

Mu-sure is designed as an equipment-free blood diagnostic platform. The entire test fits in a disposable, credit card-sized self-contained chip without compromising test accuracy. All you need is the Mu-sure chip. Add your sample, wait 20 minutes, and read the results as you do on a thermometer. With the help of a mobile phone, you can digitise the results to share with your doctor, adds Aggarwal. The decision to roll out Mu-sure to test for hypothyroidism was based on conversations with patients, physicians and other stakeholders.

Hypothyroidism is one of the main causes of birth complications as well as development disorders in children globally. According to an article in The Lancet (2014), 42 million people in India suffer from thyroid disorders, with hypothyroidism being the most common, affecting one in 10 adults in the country. Mu-sure ensures that even an untrained person can easily use the test, says Aggarwal.

The money raised through the recent funding will be used to take the product to the market and make it available to various public health institutions, companies that work in public health, non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) programmes. We also intend to use the same technology to develop further applications with the focus being on national diseases. The aim is to ensure preventive care as patients can carry out tests at their own convenience, adds Aggarwal.

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The good news is that by using bigger cells and a new process to dry-coat electrodes, Tesla could halve the cost of a Model Y battery, saving more than 8% of the car's U.S. starting price, battery experts with ties to the company said.

The bad news is that it's only halfway there, according to 12 experts close to Tesla or familiar with its new technology.

That's because the dry-coating technique used to produce the bigger cells in Tesla's 4680 battery is so new and unproven, the company is having trouble scaling up manufacturing to the point where the big cost savings kick in, the experts told Reuters.

"They just aren't ready for mass production," said one of the experts close to Tesla.

Still, the gains Tesla has already made in cutting battery production costs in the past two years could help boost profits and extend its lead over most electric vehicle (EV) rivals.

Elon Musk's promised improvements in battery cost and performance are seen by investors as critical to Tesla's quest to usher in an era where it can sell a $25,000 EV for a profit - and stand a better chance of hitting its 2030 targets.

Battery systems are the most expensive single element in most EVs, so making lower-cost, high-performance packs is key to producing affordable electric cars that can go toe to toe with combustion-engine rivals on sticker prices.

Tesla is one of only a handful of major automakers that produce their own EV batteries and by manufacturing Model Y cells at U.S. plants, the SUV will remain eligible for U.S. tax credits when many rival EVs may no longer qualify.

Among the 12 battery experts Reuters spoke with, nine have close ties to Tesla and three of the nine have examined Tesla's new and old battery technology inside and out through teardowns.

Tesla did not respond to requests for comment.

'HE WILL SOLVE IT'

The sources predict that Tesla will find it difficult to fully implement the new dry-coating manufacturing process before the end of this year, and perhaps not until 2023.

Stan Whittingham, a co-inventor of lithium-ion batteries and a 2019 Nobel laureate, believes Tesla Chief Executive Elon Musk has been overly optimistic on the time frame for commercializing the new technique.

"I think he will solve it, but it won't be as quick as he likes. It's going to take some time to really test it," he said.

In August, Musk told shareholders Tesla would be producing high volumes of 4680 batteries by the end of 2022.

According to the experts, Tesla has only been able to cut the Model Y's battery cost by between $2,000 and $3,000 so far, about half the savings Tesla had planned for the 4680 battery, which it unveiled two years ago.

But those savings have come mainly from the design of the new 4680 cells, which are bigger than those in Tesla's current 2170 battery, they said.

But the heart of the drive to push down costs is the dry-coating technology, which Musk has described as revolutionary but difficult to execute.

According to the sources, it should deliver as much as half of the $5,500 cost savings Tesla hopes to achieve, by slashing manufacturing costs and one-time capital spending.

Tesla acquired the know-how in 2019 when it paid over $200 million for Maxwell Technologies, a company in San Diego making ultracapacitors, which store energy for devices that need quick bursts of electricity, such as camera flashes.

Building on Maxwell's technology, Tesla began making 4680 dry cells this year, first in a pilot near its Fremont, California plant and more recently at its new global headquarters in Austin, Texas.

'BEST IN CLASS'

The technology allows Tesla to ditch the older, more complex and costly wet-coating process. It's expensive because it needs a substantial amount of electricity, machinery, factory space, time, and a large labour force.

To coat electrodes in the wet process, battery producers mix the materials with toxic binder solvents. Once coated, the electrodes are dried in massive ovens, with the toxic solvents that evaporate in the process being recovered, treated and recycled - all adding to the cost.

With the new technology, electrodes are coated using different binders with little use of liquids, so they don't need to be dried. That means it's cheaper, faster and also less environmentally damaging.

Because of its simplicity, the process allows Tesla to cut capital spending by a third and slash both the footprint of a factory and its energy consumption to a 10th of what would be needed for the wet process, Tesla has said.

But the company has had trouble commercializing the process, the sources said.

Maxwell developed its dry-coat process for ultracapacitors, but the challenge with coating electrodes for EV batteries is that they are much larger and thicker, which makes it hard to coat them with consistent quality at mass-production speeds.

"They can produce in small volume, but when they started big volume production, Tesla ended up with many rejects, too many," one of the sources with ties to Tesla told Reuters.

Production yields were so low that all the anticipated cost savings from the new process were lost, the source said.

If all the potential efficiencies from dry-coating and the bigger cells are realised, the manufacturing cost for the Model Ys 4680 battery pack should fall to $5,000 to $5,500 - roughly half the cost of the 2170 pack, according to the sources.

The rising cost of battery materials and energy pose a risk to those forecasts, however, and Tesla has not yet been able to significantly improve the new battery's energy density or the amount of power it packs, as Musk has promised.

Still, despite those factors, the savings Tesla is expected to achieve will end up making the 4680 battery the industry's "best in class" for the foreseeable future, one source said.

BULKING UP

Much of the $2,000 to $3,000 cost savings achieved with the 4680 battery so far has come from other improvements, and using bigger cells has proven particularly potent, the experts said.

The 4680 cells are 5.5 times the size of the 2170 cells by volume. The older cylindrical cells measure 21mm in diameter and 70mm in height, hence the name. The 4680 cells have a 46mm diameter and are 80mm high.

With the older technology, Tesla needs about 4,400 cells to power the Model Y and there are 17,600 points that need to be welded - four per cell - to create a pack that can be integrated into the car, the sources said.

The 4680 battery pack only needs 830 cells and Tesla has changed the design so that there are only two weld points per cell, slashing the welding to 1,660 points and leading to significant cost savings.

The simpler design also means there are fewer connectors and other components, which has allowed Tesla to save further on labour costs and machine time.

Another source of efficiency has been the larger cell's far sturdier outer case. Tesla can now bond the cells together with adhesive into a rigid honeycomb-like pack which is then connected directly to the inner body structure of the Model Y.

This eliminates the intermediate step of bundling cells into larger modules which are then installed in a traditional battery pack, the sources said.

By shifting to this "cell to vehicle" design, Tesla can reduce the weight of a traditional 1,200-pound battery pack by 55 pounds or more - saving about $500 to $600 per pack, one of the sources said.

But mastering the dry-coating technique remains the holy grail.

"Bulking up the battery cell helped a lot in boosting efficiency, but pushing for 50% cost savings for the cell as a whole is another matter," one source said.

"That will depend on whether Tesla can deploy the dry-coating process successfully in a factory."

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Thousands of roads across Baltimore County will be scanned by workers with a 3D laser for the first time to better understand roadway conditions. The county expects to use the data to target the roads in the worst condition for upcoming repairs. The move is to ensure the county is prioritizing roads in an objective way instead of simply driving along to gauge the quality of roads.

But Baltimore County Council members still want a say over which potholes are ultimately filled and whether roads get repaved.

Each year, county workers typically take a long drive and rate the condition of roadways based on their experiences.

Kristina Lewis, a contract specialist with the countys office of information technology, told the county council that approach is subjective and using the 3D laser will change that.

This analysis will allow the county to prioritize spending and pave the most critical areas first, Lewis said.

Council members hear plenty from constituents complaining about county roads. They have referred to it as the bread and butter of local politics. So Democratic Council Chairman Julian Jones made it clear to Lewis that they dont want to be cut out of the process.

We all know our roads better than anyone and we will be more than happy as we always do to tell you where you need to pave first and quickly, Jones said.

Republican Councilman David Marks added, We are elected to represent our constituents who have many opinions on roads that need to be improved. So I would hope that this administration and future administrations would continue to take those opinions.

Marks also asked the administration to add ratings assigned to roadways on the countys website in addition to details of the long-term resurfacing program.

I certainly do agree that getting an appropriate estimate of life cycle costs for the entire road network is an admirable goal, Marks said.

The county is hiring the firm OConnell & Lawrence Inc., an engineering and consulting firm in Olney, Maryland to assess the roads. It will cost the county as much as $520,000. The county council is expected to vote on the contract at its September 6 meeting.

According to the companys website, it can collect road data and images while traveling up to 60 miles per hour which allows us to safely collect images at highway speeds without disrupting traffic.

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The executive chairman and former CEO of MicroStrategy, Michael Saylor said the companys developers are working on solutions that would allow a lot of people onto the Bitcoin Lightning network, to an audience at the Baltic Honeybadger conference on Saturday in Riga, Latvia.

Saylor described Lightning as the most important thing going on in the world in technology while addressing the audience via video call.

The Baltic Honeybadger conference is the biggest European Bitcoin-only conference to date which gathered 600+ attendees & 70+ speakers.

Last month, Michael Saylor swapped his role from CEO to Executive Chairman of MicroStrategy. As the Executive Chairman, Saylor focuses on advancement and long-term organization techniques.

During the video call, Saylor noted, MicroStrategy has got some R&D projects going on right now where were working on enterprise applications of Lightning: enterprise Lightning wallet, enterprise Lightning servers, enterprise authentication.

MicroStrategy, according to Saylor, is searching for solutions that would enable businesses to roll out Lightning to a hundred thousand employees every day or open Lightning wallets for 10 million clients overnight.

Also Read: What is the Bitcoin Lightning Network? Secret behind Its massive adoption

Its still early in the process, and Michael Saylor said its too soon to tell if any viable items would result from it.

Saylor added, but in Lightning, you can move much more aggressively developing functionality and take more risks with the applications than you can with the underlying bitcoin layer.

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The market growth is accredited to the increased adoption of artificial intelligence and automation, the rising usage of SLAM technology in AR applications, and the growing demand for service robots.

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MARKET INSIGHTSSimultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM), also known as synchronized localization and mapping, is the process of mapping a certain area while maintaining track of the devices location inside the area.Automation in the manufacturing sector has drastically changed factory floor operations and minimized costs across several industries.Accordingly, the recent advancements in artificial intelligence, machine learning, and robotics, including SLAM technology, enable robots to execute certain jobs better than humans.

Robots aid in executing repetitive tasks, whereas the incorporation of AI helps offer repetitive data analytics to make more informed decisions. This can be achieved using SLAM technology.This is because SLAM enables robots to simultaneously locate and map their working surroundings.As a result, the growing automation need has raised the demand for SLAM technology, given its advantages like decreased labor costs, minimal time, and increased efficiency.

Such aspects drive the global SLAM technology market growth. However, the market growth is restrained by technical complexities associated with SLAM implementation.

REGIONAL INSIGHTSWith regard to geography, the global SLAM technology market growth analysis includes the regional analysis of North America, Asia-Pacific, Europe, and Rest of World. North America has the largest revenue share in the global market, majorly attributed to the SLAM technology use in a vast range of applications, including military and household.

COMPETITIVE INSIGHTSApple Inc, Fetch Robotics Inc, Intel Corporation, Aethon Inc, etc., are among the leading companies in the market.

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HiRain developed its own roadside V2X solution using InnovizOne LiDAR. The five-in-one sensor unit monitors traffic from a bird's eye view, collecting environmental data and sending it in real time to a high-performance computer, which then broadcasts the data to all surrounding trucks in order to avoid collisions.

"The global supply chain crisis is being made worse by labor shortages and higher levels of congestion at ports in China and around the world," said Omer Keilaf, co-founder and CEO of Innoviz. "The deployment of HiRain's autonomous vehicle and V2X systems using InnovizOne LiDAR comes at an especially opportune time, as it will greatly improve efficiencies and enable 24/7 operations."

Innoviz and HiRain began working together in 2018, and HiRain plans to integrate Innoviz's next-generation LiDAR sensor, InnovizTwo, into its platforms, to make port operations even safer and more efficient.

"LiDAR is one of the most critical technologies of our time and will play an outsized role in the development of not just autonomous vehicles, but also the infrastructure they require to communicate with one another," said Dr. Chengjian Fan, CTO & Deputy GM of Hirain Technologies. "We have very much enjoyed working with the Innoviz team to bring these products to market, and look forward to developing additional products using Innoviz's solutions."

About Beijing JingWei Hirain Technologies

Founded in 2003, HiRain focuses on providing electronic products, R & D services and overall solutions for high-level intelligent driving to customers in the fields of automobile and unmanned transportation. Headquartered in Beijing, HiRain has established modern production plants in Tianjin and Nantong, forming a perfect R & D, production, marketing and service system. Based on the concept of "value innovation and serving customers", the company adheres to the strategies of "professional focus", "technology leadership" and "platform development", and is committed to becoming a world-class comprehensive electronic system technology service provider, a full stack solution supplier for intelligent networked vehicles, and a leader in high-level intelligent driving MaaS solutions. For more information please visit:https://www.hirain.com/

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Innoviz is a global leader in LiDAR technology, working towards a future with safe autonomous vehicles on the world's roads. Innoviz's LiDAR and perception software "see" better than a human driver and reduce the possibility of error, meeting the automotive industry's strictest expectations for performance and safety. Operating across the U.S., Europe, and Asia, Innoviz has been selected by internationally recognized premium car brands for use in consumer vehicles as well as by other commercial and industrial leaders for a wide range of use cases. For more information, visit innoviz-tech.com

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Ship Technology Global is back with a bumper edition, combined with our sister title Future Cruise, bringing all of our expert maritime analysis together in one place.

The UK Secretary of State for Defence and Shipbuilding Tsar, Ben Wallace has called for the UK to ramp up inward investment in order to increase global competitiveness, following decades of decline.

In our cover story, we look into the state of shipbuilding in the UK in both defence and commercial sectors finding out how some firms are taking an active step to future-proof their operations.

Elsewhere, the Port of Antwerp-Bruges is set to welcome the worlds first hydrogen-powered tugboat, built byCompagnie Maritime Belge. We profile the new vessel, finding out how it works and why the choice for hydrogen power was made.

Whether you are on a desktop, tablet or smartphone, you canread the magazinefor free online.

Looking to the cruise sector, Norwegian Cruise Line has launched its new Prima Class ship, which boasts an abundance of entertainment and leisure options for cruisers and a premium health & wellness programme. We report from the ships maiden voyage, learninghow the new vessels upscale-focused design could elevate the guest experience onboard.

As well as all of this, we look at the UK Governments five-year maritime strategy, analyse the Russia-Ukraine conflicts global impact on maritime trade, learn about Transcend Cruises ambitions for B2B river cruises with their new fleet of river ships, designed byTillberg Design of Sweden.

For all of this and a lot more, read on. And dont forget to stay up to date with everything at @ShipTechMagand @FutureCruiseMag.

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The UK shipbuilding industry has been urged to prove its competitiveness with inward investment, asRichardThomasreports.

Jasleen Mannexplores how a hybrid propulsion system can help make vessels flexible and able to adapt to future technology developments.

Jasleen Mannexplains how the strategy will enhance maritime technology, innovation and security while taking the environment into consideration.

The Port of Antwerp-Bruges is set to welcome the worlds first hydrogen-powered tugboat.AbiMillarprofiles the new vessel and looks at why Antwerp opted for hydrogenpower.

Jasleen Mannhighlights how the maritime industry has seen an increase in global vessel demand and the cost of shipping, according to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development.

Jasleen Mannexplores how the $30m investment in a new solar-powered integrated inspection facility demonstrates the possibilities for sustainable development.

Norwegian Cruise Lines new Prima Class ship boasts a plethora of options to challenge the cruise lines rivals.FrancesMarcellinreports from the inaugural voyage and finds out how the new vessels upscale-focused design could elevate the guest experienceonboard.

Jasleen Mannspeaks to Brintons design managerJodie Hatton to find out how the firm combines heritage and luxury carpet design for marine vesselinteriors.

Frances Marcellin speaks to Matthew Shollar, co-founder of Transcend Cruises, about how the operators ambitions to take on the B2B market with its new river cruise offering.

Candela has developed the 30-passenger Candela P-12 Shuttle, a hydrofoil electric ferry operating in Stockholm. Jasleen Mann profiles how the new vessels will benefit the cityslocals.

This summer, Japanese freight companies launched two of the worlds first fully autonomous container ships. The development is spearheaded by a consortium including the Japanese nonprofit Nippon Foundation and freight industry partners such as Mitsui Lines and Japan Railway Construction.

In our next issue, we profile Mikage, the autonomous container ship owned by Mitsui Lines, as well as the self-driving ship Suzaku, finding out how the technology behind the vessels works and asking what the ramifications of autonomous vessels will have on the maritime workforce.

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VOLGA, S.D. (KELO) At South Dakota State University, the use of drones is not a new concept. However, the curriculum is growing, and researchers are working on ways to collect more data sooner so that the data can be used by farmers to assess things like crop diseases, water stress, nutrient deficiency and more.

Its kind of very exciting because normally we use moderate resolution or like low resolution satellite data so you can not see too much of the data quality is not that good, but with the drone you can really collect very good spatial resolution data, Ph. D student Shahid Nawaz Khan said.

I think this is like very important for precision agriculture, like farmers, producers, trying to apply at a specific amount of for example nutrients or chemical spreads for disease or pest control at specific locations, at specific times, to reduce the costs of those management practices or chemical spreads or those nutrients, said Maitiniyazi Maimaitijiang, an assistant professor in the Department of Geography and Geospatial Sciences.

Ag tech companies do provide farmers with services like these via satellite, but it takes time to get that information to farmers.

Theres a lot of challenges with the accuracy of these maps, how early can they provide this. Maybe these maps collected were generated weeks ago, but maybe after two or three weeks all that data changes a lot, said Maimaitijiang.

Once SDSU completes the research, they are hoping to create a way to get the drone maps to farmers in a timely manner.

Its important in the context that they can increase their yield, they can save their crops from further diseases or something. Like they can intervene at the stage where it is really important they can save their crop from those kinds of things, said Khan.

A concept researchers believe is not far away.

I think its not that far for this to become common in use for farmers, said Khan.

This technology will not only be useful for farmers, but crop breeders, too.

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