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SFU grad student develops crop imagery tool to help farmers monitor their harvest

Written by: Sugandha Agarwal, News Team Member  This article was updated on 01/16/19 to reflect the change that Thind teamed up with professor Beg after the company was established. In 2016, Gurman Thind, an engineering graduate student from SFU  established the company Beriqo Inc, later teaming up with SFU professor Faisal Beg. The company is set to launch a new crop imagery tool, an imagery management system (IMS) that uses satellite imagery to visualize agricultural crops, in spring 2019.      “The IMS is a satellite imagery database and projection system which provides 24/7 access to fresh and archived images with timestamps,”…

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