Satellite images reveal how vigorously your crop is growing, plot by plot, patch by patch, often weeks before a stressed area would be visible walking the rows.
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Not every part of a field grows the same way. Some patches push out dense, healthy canopy; others lag, thinner leaves, slower growth, early signs of stress. On foot, those differences can take weeks to become obvious. From satellite, they show up as a simple colour map: dark green where the crop is thriving, yellow and orange where it's falling behind.
That map updates regularly through the season, so you're not just seeing a single snapshot, you're watching how each part of your land is trending, block by block.
What this replaces
Instead of relying on spot checks as you walk a handful of rows, or only noticing a struggling patch once it's visibly behind, you get full-property coverage every few days, so a problem in a corner you rarely visit shows up just as clearly as one by the gate.
Two ways we've tested whether this number actually means something, from our longest-running partner, a Pinhel vineyard.
Each dot is one satellite pass; the thick line is the July-August average for that year. The pattern repeats reliably across seasons, giving us confidence that the number we deliver between drone visits is a genuine reading of what the crop is doing.
With the Adega Cooperativa de Pinhel, the average vigor reading from April to September has risen and fallen in step with the tonnes of grapes actually harvested each year.
What grows between the rows can throw off a vigor reading if it's not told apart from the crop itself, and it varies a lot from one region to another.
In dry-farmed vineyards around Pinhel, the ground between rows is often bare earth. That reads very differently from a leafy canopy, so it's easy to separate the two.
Around Bairrada, cover crops or grass often grow between the rows. Left unseparated, that green cover can make a struggling block look healthier than it is.
Our process draws a boundary around each row of your crop and reads the canopy on its own, so the vigor number you get reflects what the crop is doing, not what's growing (or not growing) in the gaps between rows.
Same plot, same date. Left: a standard satellite reading, where each pixel covers about 100 square metres and blends crop and inter-row together. Right: our processing resolves the individual rows, which is what makes clean canopy/ground separation possible in the first place.
Vigor differences often show up in the imagery weeks before they're visible walking the rows.
Row-by-row separation means the reading reflects your crop, whatever's growing, or not, between rows.
Season-average vigor has closely tracked actual harvest volumes in our longest-running partnership.
No sensors to install, no site visit required.
Regularly refreshed imagery covers your land automatically, all season long.
Rows are separated from the ground between them, so the reading is about the crop specifically.
A clear, colour-coded picture of where your crop is thriving and where it needs attention.
We're expanding this service alongside our existing partnerships.