 Earth observation plays an important role, which is the agriculture. Before we actually dive into the topic, I don't know if everybody has heard of Guff, probably not. So Guff AG is one of the really long-term players in the earth observation field in Germany and in Europe. So we were founded already in 1985. So we are in the market more than 25 35 years now. We are in total more than 200 stuff covering all kinds of different themas. So agriculture is one of them. But we also, I must emphasize that we cover pretty much the whole value chain in earth observation from satellite data reception to data resales distribution. So we have almost all relevant commercial satellite data in our portfolio. We provide earth observation products, which I'm going to present to you today, some of them. But also the software and the tools to analyze these products and finally the capacity building in order to use the products successfully for your needs. That being said, I take you to agriculture. So agriculture is from the early beginning one of our most central topics. So we are supporting mainly governments, but also other players in the agricultural village in using earth observation and geospatial data in their work. And today I'm going to present to you the agro-suit. So that's our portfolio really of different agricultural products, which we offer to governments, to insurance providers or to other agricultural users, including, I will tell you something about soil moisture, for example, crop monitoring in general, supporting the European Common Agricultural Policy, for example. Then we have a product agro-yield, which is a yield estimation product. And then I present you also some of the software tools which we provide for our users in order to utilize earth observation. I already mentioned the Common Agricultural Policy and for those of you who are in working in agriculture, you would know that the European Common Agricultural Policy, that's one of the key programs of the European Union overall supporting more than 7 million farmers. The program is the, or the policy is the European Union's measure to facilitate sustainable supply of food, basically of affordable food, of sustainable use of resources, and also supporting EU policies such as the Green Deal in order to make agricultural production sustainable. In total, the European Cup has a volume of 60 billion euros per year, which makes up about one-third of the European Union's household in total. So you already see how important the program is. And why I'm you telling this? The European Cup made already very early, so since the 1980s, the use of earth observation and geo-information technology mandatory for the member states, which led to the development that agriculture was actually one of those sectors really driving from the beginning the development of earth observation methods and also creating significant markets for that. And one of the key words in this that's the point of working, I don't know, is the integrated agricultural control system. So these are basically GIS system, which the member states need to use and which the data is ingested and we are supplying such systems already since the 1990s, to many of the federal states in Germany, but also to other countries in order to facilitate their monitoring tasks. In 2023, there was a significant change in the agricultural monitoring in Europe. So before that, this very year, the agricultural controls by remote sensing were carried out only by on a sample basis. So only a sub-fraction of the agricultural land was monitored in very much detail with very high resolution aerial or satellite images. And from this year onwards, the system has been changed so that the whole agricultural area, so 100% of the fields need to be monitored by the member states by using Copernicus and particular Sentinel and other earth observation systems to really look at the full agricultural area. You can imagine that this was quite a game changer and it's a change which is still ongoing. At GAF, we reacted already earlier on that and we are very happy to show you today. And this is the first product which I want to walk you through. It's the agro-crop monitoring suite which we are supplying for government in order to fulfill this agricultural monitoring system or area monitoring system, what it's referred to. So agro-crop itself is basically also a whole suite of services or monitors, how it is referred to in government terms of these different aspects of agricultural production. So one key aspect is of course the detection of crop types, so which crops are grown on the field because this is directly linked to the farmer subsidy application and is then verified by remote sensing whether the crop which is applied for is actually also grown on the field. For crop classification, this is done based on the land parcel information systems or a very very accurate field disaster which the member states needs to operate and we provide in our agro-crop system the algorithms and the tools in order to distinguish up to 180 crop types with a very high accuracy of more than 90 percent which is necessary in the context of such an operational system. But agricultural monitoring is not only about crops, there is also grassland, there is fellow land, there are many different aspects which the farmers can actually apply for subsidies and which are supported through the European Commission and you see 14 of those on the slide, so there is grassland monitoring, mowing detection, the growing of catch crops, so intercropping between two main crops and so on. So all these aspects need to be monitored, not all need to be monitored by all countries or member states or federal states, but within this agro-crop product range we have a quite wide variety of monitors which are already required and this selection is also growing by the way. Then the second product which I wanted to show you is agro-yield, so agro-yield is a yield estimation system, so what would I need that for? So the farmers as well as governments, as well as agricultural insurance for example, they need to know already in advance of the harvest how much the yield of the crop production of a certain year is, so you need to know that information for example for planning a sustainable food supply but also for logistics planning for example if an agri company or a farmer needs to plan how much transport capacity he needs in order to transport the weight, you need to know already in advance how much will be the harvest and we are providing this based on an artificial and challenge based modeling where we combine different machine learning methods together with Earth's observation data but also other variables, so climate data, rainfall, temperature, so basically everything which drives the vegetation to grow, we combine that into a modeling procedure and I was this tool able to predict crop yields already up to two months before harvest with very high accuracies which makes it a very suitable tool for the purpose. The next product which I want to show you and this is also some really groundbreaking product that's agro-soil, so agro-soil is a four-dimensional soil moisture product which we can provide basically globally with a high spatial resolution, with a high temporal resolution but also and that's the groundbreaking thing in the thing, we have a high vertical resolution as well so we can go with this product into the root zone of the plants down to one meter depth and this combination of high resolution plus the ability to actually look into the ground and you see this in the in the graphic here you see the soil moisture behavior over the year in the difference of the colored lines are the different soil depth down to one meter and this has not been on the market but this is something which we in dialogue with our users detected there is really a global need for that especially in changing conditions due to climate change where agricultural production risks are increasing, we all know that droughts have been seriously increasing in Europe over the past year so in the past six years I think five of them were actually very dry years agricultural production going down due to this lack of water input so this makes this product very important and our users proudly use that one for their applications because it really resolves a previous issue or a lack of data which was not there before and then finally and then finally that's already the last product which I want to show you in this short presentation this is agrofue so agrofue is one of the software tools which we provide for our users it's basically a web-based GIS system specifically designed for the agricultural insurance supporting the insurers throughout the whole life cycle of agricultural production we developed this tool together with our partners from Munich Rea specifically first for the Indian market but it's also globally applicable it's available in different countries as well so what it does basically it has a fully automated earth observation processing in the back end so it screens every day or every night actually so German night it screens the archives of the data providers for new earth observation data available on crop health that's one of the factors which we monitor so the agriculture in order to detect agricultural drought you need to look at the plants at the vegetation at the crops and see how it is developing over the season so it automatically provides indicator on crop health for weather monitoring the weather is and the rainfall in particular is the driving factor of plant growth so it screens different sources of meteorological data processes it puts it into the system provides it to the users it allows drought monitoring so vegetation drought agricultural drought anomalies and it also provides not only the web-based interface which is good for the analyst but it provides really reporting also on a fortnightly basis so that the decision makers can get the data on their full portfolios all on all their insured areas in pdf format every time the processing is taking place and there is new data the user gets email alerts with the pdf report and can immediately see where are problematic areas where can losses in agricultural production be expected or which areas are going in good condition and are not problematic so that's agro few and then I already come to an end just to summarize the agro suit with the different products in the nutshell there are more of them and you are also invited to visit our booth in hall 27 so we can tell you more about that or also about many other topics in remote sensing because as I said we are doing many things in terms of earth observation so all these solutions which are presented are based on state of the art earth observation data but also the methodologies they are globally applicable so we are not limited to certain geographies but at gulf so we do projects we did in more than 140 countries and are active worldwide so we design our products in general so that they are applicable in all areas the products are fully scalable so you can apply them from local level to national to continental level that's that's all possible they are fully adaptable this is always important because we don't we have learned with our long-term experience that it makes no sense to provide products which are fully technology driven it's at the end of the day really the user that tells you what he needs and therefore these products need to be tailored in order to respond to that needs so all of them are highly adaptable and finally everything which I showed is also based on cloud technology which then allows us also the scalability and the cost-efficient provision of that services also on large scales and with that being said I thank you for your attention