Israel is turning high-tech swords into modern-day plowshares to gather advanced intelligence that helps farmers detect deadly parasites and improve crop yields.
Several startups in Israel are using techniques developed by the country’s military and intelligence forces that combine big data, remote sensing, artificial intelligence, and multichannel signals analysis.
Young entrepreneurs graduating from Israel’s elite intelligence and military technology units have adapted security software and systems to civilian use in cybersecurity, geolocation, automobiles, connectivity, and health. It was only a matter of time before startups began to combine spyware and sustainable farming.
“These are things that agricultural companies can’t really ...
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