Gamaya awarded in Berlin and Zurich

Since 2011 more than 700 participants submitted their innovative solution for business and society based on Earth observation to the European Copernicus Masters. Many of the ideas submitted in previous years have been implemented and successfully launched into the market. This year's winners have been announced as part of a festive awards ceremony on 20 October 2015 in Berlin, Germany. Among them is Gamaya.

Gamaya will have the opportunity to test and implement this application using all of CloudEO’s capabilities. The prize also consists of free resources valued at up to EUR 10,000 – including six months of access to a free standard workbench for development and production on CloudEO, marketing support through the CloudEO web store, and active business support from CloudEO.

Dr Manfred Krischke, CEO of CloudEO, said: «Gamaya is a fine example of a well conceived, end-to-end business concept that will provide highly valuable services to the farming industry. The team behind it has developed a leading edge hyperspectral sensor that is embedded in a fully integrated, cloud-based service solution. Together with its partners, Gamaya is well positioned for successful market entry. CloudEO is thus excited to present the team with the CloudEO Going-Live Award and looks forward to supporting its launch.»

Swiss Product Excellence Award
A few days after being awarded in Berlin Gamaya won the Swiss Product Excellence Award. The Swiss Product Excellence Award recognizes unique, technically advanced and high-quality projects that have an exceptional and outstanding product innovation with a high value creation potential and which are ready for the market development.

The main goal of the Swiss Excellence Foundation is to assist SMEs, including most prominent Swiss startups. Indeed, according to the Federal Statistical Office SMEs represent more than 90% of Swiss companies and contribute significantly to the competitiveness and innovation of Switzerland, which is ranked 1st in the world. Using different experts from various industries, the Swiss Excellence Foundation supports SMEs, which develop innovative and marketable technology that can be scaled on a global level. The main criteria for the Award are uniqueness, innovation and sustainability, market potential and success in commercial business development.

About Gamaya
Gamaya responds to the need to feed 10bn people by developing an innovative comprehensive framework for large scale analytics of farmland. Our mission is to facilitate symbiotic relationship between the humankind and our environment on a large scale. Gamaya is a knowledge company that empowers farmers with unprecedented level of understanding of their land and plant health using unique hyperspectral imaging, data mining and analytics technology. Using state-of-the-art sensors, we acquire information-rich data that we translate into actionable information for agricultural businesses using a simple, scalable and cost effective remote sensing methodology.

Gamaya’s solution empowers farmers to achieve significant economic gains including 30% increase in yield, 40% decrease in costs of fertilizers and chemicals, as well as 70% decrease in crop-disease related risks, all of which facilitates the production of quality products and reduces negative environmental impact.

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