Agriculture Biomass Estimation Ryegrass

Ryegrass Biomass Estimation (Multispectral and SAR)

Estimates the amount of pasture biomass for ryegrass, providing 10m resolution maps and related data over your specified region of interest. This service uses multispectral and SAR data to offer as high an accuracy as possible irrespective of clouds.

Use this service when you have ryegrass pasture. Other services are available for mixed or specific crop types. This service has been proven to estimate the amount of pasture biomass for ryegrass. Given a region of interest, the algorithm is run using Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2 to return the total estimated biomass and average biomass per hectare for the area from the start date to the optional end date. The output is provided as a GeoTIFF showing the estimated biomass in kg per pixel. A preview image is also provided along with a CSV file giving the total and average estimated biomass per paddock/field.

Agriculture Biomass Estimation Ryegrass

Case Studies & News

Crop Classification

Accurate, scalable crop classification using remote sensing

With climate change posing a real threat to food supplies worldwide, sustainability of food production and the ability to feed the world's population are becoming increasingly critical — not only for for producers, distributers and sellers but also for governments and communities globally. Remote sensing can bring certainty to food supply estimation with its ability to detect what crops are growing and area coverage, enabling more accurate yield prediction months before harvest and also facilitating more accurate carbon footprint modelling of agriculture.

July 2022

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Predicting Crop Yield

Forecasting wheat production months before harvest

A strong and stable agriculture sector is important at a national level as a source of food, and beneficial as a source of economic gain through exports. Early prediction of harvest yields at national and regional scales is therefore important as an influencer of commodity trading pricies, a means of ensuring adequate food supplies, managing logistics, and as a component of balance of trade. At a smaller scale, accurate estimates of likely yields allow farmers to better manage budgets, plan seed retention versus sales, assist with insurance cover judgements, and crop management decisions through the latter part of the growing season. Crop yield prediction is possible using remote sensing from satellite imagery, and accurate predictions of wheat yield are shown below to be possible months before harvest.

March 2022

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Frost Damage Detection

Detecting frost damage in crops

Frost can be a huge problem for farmers, causing irreversible damage to their crops and significantly reducing the amount of yield that is produced. Although aids such as weather reports can give an indication of when local regions are likely to experience frost, they are not able to tell if and where the crops have been damaged. This is vital as farmers need to know exactly which areas to treat as soon as possible to reduce the impact of frost. This is where remote sensing comes in, which can highlight regions on the farm that crops are most likely to be damaged.

September 2021

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Pollution Monitoring

Measuring Tropospheric Nitrogen Dioxide over Urban Areas

With the launch of ESA's Sentinel-5P satellite in 2017, it is now possible to monitor global atmospheric pollution on a daily basis, such as tropospheric concentrations of nitrogen dioxide, carbon monoxide, ozone, methane, sulphur dioxide, and formaldehyde. Taking advantage of this data, it is possible to produce temporal trends of pollution in cities and industrial areas, which can be used to understand movements of polluted air and possible risks for the population.

July 2021

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Capabilities

Image Processing & Fusion

Specialist image analysis and data fusion

We go beyond standard approaches to extract greater value from imagery for our customers. Whatever the image waveband, type or quality, we have the understanding and experience to meet even the most demanding of requirements, whether through existing algorithms or new, bespoke solutions, we can tailor to price and performance demands. As image and data fusion experts, we also bring the ability to offer enhanced performance from multiple sensor sources, where available.

 

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Platforms & APIs

Robust cloud platforms and API solutions

Being able to extract insight from data is not enough to be useable by customers to solve their problems. Needed alongside clever algorithms is the ability to develop robust, secure and useable solutions which, for example, integrate with customer systems, or provide stand-alone systems which can be used by end users.

 

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Publications

Budykho, K., Boureanu, I., Wesemeyer, S., Romero, D., Lewis, M., Rahulan, Y., Rajaona, F. and Schneider, S. (2023) "Fine-Grained Trackability in Protocol Executions" Network and Distributed System Security (NDSS) Symposium 2023

Miller, R., Boureanu, I., Wesemeyer, S., Newton, C.J.P. (2022) "The 5G Key-Establishment Stack: In-Depth Formal Verification and Experimentation" Proceedings of the 2022 ACM on Asia Conference on Computer and Communications Security

Scarles, C., Treharne, H., Casey, M.C., Abidin, H.Z. (2020) "Micro-mobilities in Curated Spaces: Agency, Autonomy and Dwelling in Visitor Experiences of Augmented Reality in Arts and Heritage" Mobilities

Hickman, D.L., Smith, M.I., Lim, J., Jeon, Y. (2018) "Modelling of Celestial Backgrounds" Proceedings of SPIE 10641, Sensors and Systems for Space Applications XI

Al-Khalili, J., Smith, A., Sen, P. (2017) "Gravity and Me: the Force that Shapes our Lives" BBC 4 science programme using an iOS and Android app to measure local relativity effects

Treharne, H., Casey, M.C., Schneider, S., Wesemeyer, S., Ross, T., May, A., Blainey, S., Pritchard, J. (2016) "Integrating Data Sources to Enhance the Experience for Passengers with Special Needs and/or Disabilities through Privacy Aware Mobile Applications" Data to Improve the Customer Experience, RRUKA, 20/09/2016 Download

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