Open-source software is a software product for which the code is freely available to the public to use or modify. It is essentially the opposite from proprietary software, which is privately owned and licensed. Open-source software may sound like something that would only be useful to an IT specialist or computer software engineer, but it is relevant to many in the agriculture industry, especially farmers. Open-source software is usually developed by a group of people who have a mutual interest in creating a software product that fits their specific needs and often avoids the high cost of similar pay-to-use products.
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Ag Open GPS utilized as a lightbar/coverage map.
Web ODM used to combine UAV images and measure NDVI.
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