Maximizing Crop Production Utilizing CropAssure Imagery
When used appropriately, remote sensing with aerial imagery can reveal a great deal about soil and crop conditions. The “birds eye” view an aerial image provides combined with field knowledge allows growers to better understand factors that affect yield. The technology enhances the ability to be proactive and identify site-specific problematic areas before yield is loss and threats are spread to other regions of the field.
CropAssure imagery identifies variability in crop health and biomass which can be used to pinpoint crop stressors and accurately remediate the problem before it is too late. This high resolution imagery combined with ground-truthing by a scout or farmer can provide the greatest insurance to your crop yield.
Value-added CropAssure Uses:
- Bare Soil: Excellent for quantifying variations in soil properties such as organic matter, soil texture, and drainage issues. Can also help guide zone soil sampling.
- Nutrient Monitoring: Nitrogen status- imagery is an excellent identifier of nitrogen stress. Can guide soil and stalk nitrate testing.
- Generate site-specific variable rate applications.
- In-season management zone delineation: Better planning for fall soil sampling before yield maps are available. Greater resolution than yield maps to pinpoint problem areas.
- Product Performance: Strip-trial comparison, fungicides, varietal differences…
- Identification of tile lines
- Weed Detection
- Insect Damage
- Moisture Stress
- Equipment Patterns/Malfunctions: Planter skips, application errors, compaction…
- Crop Stand: Identify re-plant areas; assess weather damage and estimate yield loss caused by hail, wind, etc.
- Mapping of high pH soils: Iron chlorosis in soybeans; nitrogen deficiency in corn.
- Combine with other GIS layers such as elevation for more advanced analysis.
- Manure Management
NEW FOR 2008 – SCOUTING PACKAGE
For 2008, a multiple image package will be offered at a special discounted image price determined by the number of acres and images needed in your region. Increase your scouting efficiencies by adding high resolution images during critical crop development growth stages. Develop a program for your region’s specific objectives and cropping needs! By providing imagery-directed scouting, your scouts may be able to handle significantly more acreage than their present peak acreage. Scouting fields in less time while decreasing chances of missing field problems by detecting them in early or pre-visible stages are just a few of the benefits of the scouting package! Contact us for more information.