Assessing the Digitalization Footprint from Agricultural Fields on Required Data Storage Space

The digital revolution in agriculture resulted in an accumulation of big archived data at the farmers level. Many sources of data for farmers are now available from satellite and drone images beside tractors telematics and different sensors applications. This study reports an assessment for the evolution of accumulated data from different sources at field scale. Data sources from satellite images were analysed considering the evolution of required data storage in MB/ha while drones cameras resolution and corresponding image file size were analysed from the last ten years. Moreover, archived data from a 22ha field, collected through different sensors were reported from 2005 to 2020 to assess the required data storage space. Results showed that the required data storage space from the studied 22ha field was ˂0.05 MB in 2005 and reached ˃1500 MB in 2020. Moreover, a continuous and exponential increase in the required data storage at the farmer level and a continuous increase in recent sensors generated data were reported.