New Delhi: US tech giant Google on Friday announced that it is expanding its Agricultural Landscape Understanding (ALU) API and Agricultural Monitoring and Event Detection (AMED) API, initially launched in India, to “trusted testers” in Malaysia, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Japan.

The ALU API, launched for Indian developers in October 2024, identifies fields, water bodies, and vegetation boundaries. The AMED API enhances ALU by providing field-level insights on the most cultivated crops and their sowing and harvest timelines at individual field levels, with data updates every 15 days helping detect agricultural events.

The freely available APIs leverage remote sensing and machine learning to provide local ecosystems with insights that can help build cost-effective, simple, and targeted agri

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