ENVI Helps Facilitate Peanut Crop Health in Australia Customer Challenge Growing peanuts is a delicate and precise process. Peanut plants do not flower and dry off as they mature, like wheat or corn, but continue to flower indeterminately and grow their pods underground. This makes it extremely difficult to surmise when they are ready to be harvested, which has resulted in a $6.3 million annual loss to the Australian economy. In addition, many crops can be lost to contamination by aflatoxin. To combat these issues, farmers and researchers needed a way to determine optimal harvest times, and to detect aflatoxin in dry-land peanut crops. Solution Achieved Ph.D. Scholar Andrew Robson analyzes QuickBird Imagery using ENVI to determine peanut maturity and the presence of aflatoxin, a mold that

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