SECTOR PROFILE · AGRICULTURE & SOIL HEALTH
Soil layers, taken while the ground is bare.
Take a block of fields and get back residue cover, tillage class, clay and gypsum absorption depths, and a relative organic matter index over bare-soil composites.
What people bring us, and how we handle it.
Verifying residue cover across a county
In colour imagery, weathered stubble and bare mineral soil look the same.
The cellulose signature of dry stubble sorts fields by residue cover, which broadband greenness cannot see.
Deciding where to put your soil cores
Grid coring costs a lot per point and interpolates badly between them.
Bare-soil compositing across the archive gives you a relative index over the field, which is enough to site cores. No carbon content is reported.
Catching salinity before it costs a season
Salinization is usually noticed only after yield has dropped and the soil has crusted over.
Gypsum hydration and clay signatures read together on bare, dry soil, screening salinity before it shows in yield.
WORKED EXAMPLE
Case study: Iowa Corn Belt conservation tillage audit
Fractional crop residue cover and bare topsoil mapping across the Des Moines Lobe agricultural basin.
Bare-soil window compositing
Pre-planting scenes taken under dry surface conditions, composited to the moment each pixel was most exposed.
Cellulose absorption index
Cellulose absorption depth, read against its local baseline.
Tillage classification
Field parcels sorted into conservation tillage above thirty percent residue, and conventional tilled below it.
What you get back
Parcel-level residue fractions and tillage classes, with the evaluable fraction stated per field.
APPLICABLE SOLUTIONS
Layers that fit this sector.
Ready to run over your area, with no configuration step in between.
Soil Exposure & Crop Residue
Crop residue cover and topsoil clay, for residue and tillage classes.
Soil Organic Carbon Proxy
Each pixel is composited to the moment it was most exposed, then ranked for organic matter. No carbon content is reported.
Topsoil Clay & Salinity Index
Gypsum and clay readings on bare soil. Salt itself is invisible to the sensor, so salinity is only ever inferred from what travels with it.
Canopy Chlorophyll & Red-Edge
Red-edge position, which follows canopy pigment. Refused on sensors that cannot resolve it.
Surface Water Quality
Screening for pigment and turbidity over inland water, using published fits applied unchanged.
APPLIED SPECTROSCOPY SERIES
Read the method in full.
The unmixing equations, the error propagation, and the validation behind each layer, written out for your own review.
The Spectral Advantage in Agriculture
Soil organic carbon mapping and crop residue identification with orbital spectroscopy.
FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
Questions we get asked about this sector.
RUN IT OVER YOUR GROUND
Run this over your Agriculture area.
Order processing over your area, or a dedicated capture where the archive has nothing usable. Ask Lisaris in plain language to take the area, run the pipeline and tell you when the layers are ready.