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Agriculture - Satellite-based farming management

Farming is today an economically, socially and environmentally sensitive sector. Satellite imagery now underpins an objective, global and precise approach to resource management and has become crucial to agricultural inventories, crop forecasts, monitoring crop health and soil moisture.

Some challenges are the same across the globe: climate change, scarcity and rising price of resources, aggressive
competition, more demanding consumers and stricter regulations, to name a few.
Others are extremely location-specific: different soils, crops and crop distribution; different climatic conditions, management and technical practices.
Our vocation is to contribute to your success, taking all of the above factors into account.

You need

to monitor cultivated areas: annual crops, vineyards, olive groves, etc.
to manage production: managing cropping patterns, inventorying crops, estimating yields and organizing harvesting, estimating irrigation requirements and assessing the impact of bad weather,
to check and monitor agri-environmental measures and subsidies based on acreage,
to manage farming practices at parcel level (precision farming).





Irrigation in the region of Lethbridge, Canada - Spot 5 - 2.5 m colour

We offer

ready-to-use products and services

multisensor (optical and radar), multiresolution imagery suited to parcel checking and monitoring, integrated agriculture or agricultural statistics,
thematic maps and inventories of croplands, crop status bulletins, field survey support,
vegetation monitoring thanks to biophysical parameters derived information,
estimation of acreages and yields, monitoring of parcels farmed under contract, production management support,

integrated solutions

information systems dedicated to global and local crop monitoring (annual crops, plantations, illegal crops)
complete production processes including training, technical support, hardware, software and technology transfer

dedicated services and package solutions

FARMSTAR (France) , delivers agronomic advices at key stages for wheat, barley, colza and corn cultures helping limit intrants
PixAgri, a service for crop management, at parcel scale and on every latitude
œnoview, vineyard management and harvest control depending on grape maturity level
CropForecaster, online support-decision tool allowing a user to track crop progress from planting to harvest.
agricultural production management support
- by specialized production (sugar cane, oil palm, peanuts, etc.)
agri-environmental diagnosis
agricultural statistics
agricultural information systems
- inventories when and where needed
other agricultural production diagnoses
- analysis of the impact of droughts or other climatic events
- analyses relating to the enforcement of agricultural regulations
- analyses relating to insurance and reinsurance cover
monitoring and checking up on illegal crops
- monitoring and checking on production
- alternative developments

Key benefits

Our in-house strong agricultural know-how, and the close partnership developped since more than 10 years with agronomical institutes makes Spot Image one of the leading companies developing satellite-based crop management services

The resolution of SPOT 5 imagery enables very precise identification of crops and other land use at parcel level.

Spot Image thematic experts advise you on the most appropriate satellite imagery from a choice of optical and radar wide-area satellite imagery at low to very high resolution then promptly provide the chosen products.

Fast, uniform and relevant coverage of vast areas thanks to:
- an archive of over 10 million SPOT images for multidate monitoring,
- repeat imagery well-timed for monitoring crop development,
- custom satellite programming services for accurate crop analysis

When implementing agricultural projects, Spot Image relies on its network of experienced national and international partners, with renowned expertise in multisource, multiscale image interpretation, farming statistics and trends, dedicated software development, database production and management, and quality control.

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