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Software company
Gamaya Industry Farming technology Founded 2015 Founder Dragos Constantin, Igor Ivanov and Yosef Akhtman Headquarters
Morges , Switzerland Key people
Igor Ivanov (
CEO ) Services Hyperspectral cameras, precision faming Website
www .gamaya .com
Gamaya is a
Swiss company which provides
drones equipped with
hyper-spectral cameras for use in agriculture.
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The company has 35 employees and is located in
Morges , Switzerland.
[3] Igor Ivanov is the current company CEO.
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Gamaya was founded in 2015 as an
EPFL laboratory spinoff by co-founders Dragos Constantin, Igor Ivanov and Yosef Akhtman.
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In 2016, the company raised an investment round of $3.2 million from the
Sandoz Family Foundation ,
Peter Brabeck-Letmathe , Seed4Equity, and VI Partners.
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In 2017, Gamaya received the Swiss Economic Forum Hightech award
[7]
[8] as well as the
Nvidia Inception award.
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In 2019, the company raised a second round of investment of CHF 12 million, led by
Mahindra & Mahindra .
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Hyperspectral camera technology
Gamaya's hyperspectral camera technology was developed between 2013 and 2015 through the EPFL Leman-Baikal project.
[12] It captures 40 different bands of light.
[2] Hyperspectral images shot with a drone are then used to generate a survey of the land.
[13] The data can be used for detecting invasive species and crop diseases, predicting yields, or for optimising soil treatment and fertilisation.
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Gamaya's cameras have been used in a few scientific studies as part of data collection for hyperspectral survey of agricultural crops.
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doi :
10.1051/bioconf/20202100003 .
ISSN
2117-4458 .
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ISBN
978-1-5386-3327-4 .
S2CID
3267718 .