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Build for Digital India - 2019

by Google and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology

Plant Disease Detection with Drones

(From left to right, Nikhil Patel, Rishabh Kabhya, Vaibhav Thakor,
Yash Shamnani, Tarun Khilani)

Google and Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology organized
Build for Digital India, 2019 to provide a platform to student developers for

solving the most pressing problems with the latest technology. This program
was aimed to foster innovation and entrepreneurship among Indian science,

technology, and engineering students in areas like healthcare, agriculture,

education, smart cities and infrastructure, transportation, woman safety, ac-
cessibility and disability, and digital literacy. The program kicked off with 8

weeks of Learn and Build phase. We developed a solution for farmers to au-
tomatically detect plant diseases using Machine learning. Our idea was to use

a drone with a camera which uses a deep learning model to detect disease
in farms while traversing automatically and report the data to the farmer on

an android application. This idea was selected for the second phase - Feed-

back Phase and we were invited for the 2-day in-person boot camp at Google
Mumbai Office on February 6th and 7th, 2020.

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