Agricultural APIs have become an inseparable part of farming software development. Industry experts continue to benefit from utilizing modern APIs catering to farming.
They allow for increasing productivity and profitability through applying precision agriculture practices thanks to integration of the lacking data in a particular software to boost its effectiveness.
Different APIs enable different features integration, including crop scouting activities tracking, machine performance monitoring, weather data access, and full-scale field analytics based on satellite pictures analysis.
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In this piece, we’ve collected some of the most useful agricultural APIs for developers to consider integrating into their own farm software.
EOS API
The agricultural API developed by EOSDA company enables the integration of the following features:
Field Satellite Imagery
This API enables access to satellite field images with all the available vegetation indices (including NDVI, MSAVI, NDMI, and others).
Depending on a satellite, custom indices can also be created using the available bands’ combinations.
Scene Search
This function allows for adding fields to the system to perform their monitoring and advanced analytics. The API links the location of a particular field to the available satellite picture.
Historical Field Trends
This API offers data on temperatures, precipitation, crop health, soil moisture, and more throughout the years for comparison, patterns detection, and planning.
Soil Moisture
This API gives access to soil moisture data since 2015.
Crop Classification
This feature enables crop type identification with an accuracy of up to 90%. To do so, the system connects satellite data retrieved from Sentinel-2 images to the ground data.
This API allows for crops inventory on multiple fields at once, especially in a large region, and improves crop rotation planning.
Zoning
Zoning API allows dividing a field into different areas (zones) based on vegetation state or productivity for variable-rate application (VRA) of seeds, fertilizers, or water.
This means the resources are used based on the needs of each field area allowing for higher precision, hence saving money and increasing the field’s productivity.
Weather
Weather API offers access to both historical and current weather data. Historical weather is available since 2008, and current weather is presented in the form of a 14-day forecast.
Point Value
This API shows crop development for a particular area between 10 and 500 meters based on vegetation indices analytics.
Elevation And Slope Map
These APIs offer elevation data on any specific point on the map (ranging from 3×3 meters to 2500×2500 meters) and information on elevation differences on a selected field.
Colorization
This API gives an option to customize the color scheme of the available indices visualization on the map.
Wise Orchard API
This particular API provides developers with the opportunity of programmatic control over the internet-connected irrigation valve.
Using this API, they can perform control and automation over their irrigation valves via their own software, control their own watering devices, or integrate the valves with third-party service.
The valve can be controlled from a mobile app, providing access to an internet-connected irrigation valve that tracks local weather conditions to adjust crop watering schedules accordingly, ensuring plant health and smart water management.
Tropicalfruitandveg API
This API enables the integration of tropical fruit and vegetable data into iOS apps, websites, Windows Mobile, and Android apps.
Integration can also be indirect with JavaScript and PHP.
The API offers data on tropical fruits, vegetables, nuts, herbs and spices, including the image URL, fruit or vegetable name, description, uses, health, soil, climate, and propagation.
USDA PubAg API
The purpose of this API is to allow the integration of apps for accessing and searching agricultural publications databases, which hold over 41 thousand journal articles by USDA staff and over a million citations.
The API is released in a fully-ed and documented mode, and is flexible to either XML or JSON formats.
Raven Slingshot API
The Raven Slingshot API offers a platform that enables interoperability of the previously independent Slingshot products with the purpose of improved field monitoring experience.
As for Raven Slingshot, it provides different products for the agriculture industry, including Field Hub and Slingshot RDK for precise data collection and smart business procedures management.
