Feature Part One: Product The DSFH product would fetch and scrape relevant public data from the EU’s Copernicus (2019) project of both satellite images and in-situ data, the Land Use and Coverage Area Frame Survey (LUCAS) (European Commission, 2018a), the Eurostat Database for Agriculture (2019b), the ISRIC: World Soil Information (2019), European Soil Data Centre (European Commission, 2019d), and other data aggregators (e.g., Google Earth Engine, [2020]. The data will be used to build a more complete overlaying data picture of our soil fingerprint. Specific soil and crop data would be captured by our platform through participating producers, their cooperatives, distributors, industry organisations, and input suppliers, either by manual input, scrapping, or automatedly through a system of connected IoT sensors, across the network. An intuitive search algorithm and sort user experience (UX) would allow users (e.g., farmers and developers) to input their data or make queries and compare those results to the overall data models for the region, country, European level, and potentially globally. A user or group of users would be able to contribute to improved data models with their inputs and fetch immutable data that would certify the value of their efforts, and conversely, how much more effective their outcomes would be by adopting other evidence-based practices in efforts to improve their results. Furthermore, citizens would have access to fetch general data maps to have a better view of the ecological impact that agriculture practices have on an extended region (Eurostat, 2019c). This allows all stakeholders to work more closely together to promote better local agriculture standards and reward producers and supply chain stakeholders for their efforts. This user-contributed data would live in a layer-2 multilevel and proof-of-stake (PoS) blockchain solution, having both on-chain and off-chain components. The decentralised base level would set the rules and governance for such things as on-chain verification and auditing capabilities. Allowing individual farmers, cooperative affiliates, distributors, input suppliers, and others to assign access for third parties to fetch immutable data for their needs. This mechanism would give the user data sovereignty over how that information would be reused— potentially another source of revenue—while giving the ecosystem a snapshot of valuable anonymous data. As well, we use PoS instead of a proof-of-work (PoW) protocol that addresses the concerns about the high energy necessary for creating new blocks using PoW. Using a nested blockchain architecture (Figure 8) will also address data privacy issues, as our system will manage private data and offer auditing capabilities through digital data computed using cryptographic algorithms, thus our system will offer Privacy-by-design. DatasmartFarmhand.com
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