With the use of AI-driven technologies, the Global Organic Textile Standard (GOTS) and AI company Marple have reached a major milestone in their Satellite Cotton Monitoring Project in India, detecting organic cotton with a 97% accuracy rate. The project, which is part-financed by the Business Applications and Space Solutions (BASS) program of the European Space Agency (ESA), has the potential to completely transform industrial sustainable.
In Gujarat, Haryana, Madhya Pradesh, and Maharashtra, the initiative scanned more than 6,000 fields using Marple’s Cotton Cultivation Remote Assessment (CoCuRA) program. With over 80% accuracy in identifying organic status, the software examined satellite data to identify conventional and organic cotton fields spread over 2.7 million square kilometers of India’s agricultural area.
To assist farmers in making the switch to certified organic practices, the CoCuRA program makes it possible to identify cotton fields where near-organic practices are used. The solution further enhances fraud detection and guarantees fiber integrity in the organic supply chain by integrating with GOTS’s Global Fibre Registry.
This program increases the supply of organic cotton while simultaneously encouraging sustainable agricultural methods through the facilitation of farmer certification, more transparency, and less risk of fraud. With the ability to scale this solution for additional areas and crops, GOTS intends to take the project global in scope, providing a revolutionary method to crop monitoring on a global scale.
