3rd World Congress on GIS and Remote Sensing
Charlotte, USA
Kentaro Kuwata
FarmX, USA
Biography
Kentaro Kuwata has developed an expertise in processing and analyzing satellite data in monitoring agriculture. He had experience of working at a Japanese private company to utilize various types of satellite data for agriculture and disaster management for two and half years. His recent research work for doctoral thesis was applying corn yield estimation model developed with satellite data and deep learning to a new type of agricultural insurance. His special ability is processing terra-byte class satellite data with machine learning and apply to new applications. After he received Dr. engineering at the University of Tokyo, he joined FarmX to build an innovative data science platform to help growers become more able to cope with increasingly divergent climates.