Satellite imagery and crop analytics to meet Precision Agriculture requirement
For over 30 years Airbus has shaped how satellite imagery is used for agricultural applications and everyday, tens of thousands of farmers rely on its solutions to better manage their farming activities. Airbus monitoring services support you in the development of productive and sustainable agricultural practices.
Discover the technology within our agricultural services: Biophysical Parameters
Understanding and monitoring crop growth within fields is essential for all stakeholders in agriculture. Thanks to an unrivaled processing suite, we provide industry-leading maps characterizing vegetation using a vast range of satellite and UAV imagery.
Verde key features:
- Turnkey analytics powered by extraction of biophysical information characterizing crop status
- Data from different image sources, derived from SPOT, Sentinel 2, Landsat 8 and coming soon, Pléiades and drones
- Served as an API, plug and play to any precision agriculture portal
Your advantages with Verde:
- 100% usable : calculate the biomass and nitrogen uptake
- 100% carefree: consistent whatever the sensor, dependable cloud masking
- 100% operational: easy to convert into practical farming recommendations
AgNeo provides agribusinesses with an innovative and reliable decision support platform to drive greater efficiency. Developed in collaboration with some of the biggest names in agriculture, it provides in-season actionable information utilising imagery, field data and weather insights. Use the entire platform or select specific API components to plug into existing systems
AgNeo key features:
- Data Management: Access all your data - imagery, yield, soil, field reports, photos, videos. Access free, publicly available imagery for your fields
- Core Crop Analytics: Receive in-season crop stress alerts driven by 1.5m imagery
- Premium Crop Analytics: Utilise our permanent crop analysis service running on 0.5m imagery or plug in the Verde API
- Research Sandbox: Unlock your internal knowledge in an Esri environment. Explore the relationships between your datasets; quickly build your IP to apply at scale
Your advantages with AgNeo:
- Centralise your precision farming data and make it accessible to all your users
- Expand your IP, then implement at scale
- Optimise your crop consultant’s time, provide direction – not just more data
- Receive alerts for high value crops from our unsurpassed permanent crop analytics
For more than 15 years, Farmstar has supported French farmers looking to optimise their yield, improving their harvest quality, rationalising fertiliser input and safeguarding the environment. It mixes satellite and unmanned aerial platform (UAV) imagery with strong agronomic expertise. From seeding to harvest, Farmstar provides comprehensive advice for wheat, barley, triticale and rapeseed, at intra-field scale and perfectly timed with the crop cycle.
Farmstar key features:
- Consistent Guidance: Regular crop monitoring and farming advice
- Adaptable: Compatible with almost any equipment for variable rate application of inputs within the field
- Compatibility with Basic Systems: Available in a simplified format to support manual spraying (for tractors without variable rate application devices)
- User-Friendly Portal: Available on computer, smartphone and tablets
Your advantages with Farmstar:
- Increases yield, improves harvest quality
- Supports farming regulation compliance
- Reduces costs and simplifies field work
- Minimises farming impact on environment
Many companies producing, transforming or consuming agricultural commodities are making efforts to reduce their footprint in terms of deforestation. The challenge they face is to independently verify the results of their efforts.
Starling key features:
Starling is a monitoring package over commodity production landscapes, including:
- Base Map: The reference layer locating forest classes
- Monitoring Reports: Updates featuring evolution of the forest cover overtime
- Summary Dashboard: Regular overview of all areas monitored by a given customer
- Available Globally
Your advantages with Starling:
- Verify commitment and support decision-making for commodity sourcing and determine how/where to engage
- Achieve transparency goals towards NGOs, civil society, governmental bodies and independently mitigate reputational risk
- Differentiate from competition for preferential treatment on the market
- Engage third parties and stakeholders to transform the industry across all areas of the value chain
The Grassland Production Index is a service allowing insurers to cover cattle breeders against shortages in forage yield. It features a reliable and continuous estimation of grass growth over the entire French territory. Month after month, the indicator is compared to the historical average, the max and min record years in grassland production, at a local (yet not individual) scale
Grassland Production Index key features:
Starling is a monitoring package over commodity production landscapes, including:
- Consistent Evaluation: Continuous grass growth assessment every 10 days
- Local (but not individual) Analytics: Avoid moral hazards while remaining consistent with local events
- Accurate: Comparison to a thorough, consistent historical reference
- Available over the entire country
Your advantages with the Grassland Production Index:
- Rapid, fair, unbiased compensation for cattle breeders
- Streamlined paperwork for insurance companies and insured parties
- No more need to send insurance experts on-site to assess damage extent
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