Precision ag tool

jyee

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Hi all,

I’ve been very lucky to work with a great team to design and launch Decipher (www.decipher.com.au), an agtech startup based in Perth, Western Australia.

It is a precision agriculture tool which allows you to see satellite NDVI imagery and insights for your farm, and understand your farm using information you can’t see with just your eyes.

The tool works on desktop, tablet and mobile.
It also comes with app on your phone as well.
App Store - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/deciphergo/id1315890875?mt=8
Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.decipher.deciphergo&hl=en

Feel free to try it out - it is free!
 

scholland

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Location
ze3
Admin please delete if this is now allowed.

Hi all,

I’ve been very lucky to work with a great team to design and launch Decipher (www.decipher.com.au), an agtech startup based in Perth, Western Australia.

It is a precision agriculture tool which allows you to see satellite NDVI imagery and insights for your farm, and understand your farm using information you can’t see with just your eyes.

The tool works on desktop, tablet and mobile.
It also comes with app on your phone as well.
App Store - https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/deciphergo/id1315890875?mt=8
Google Play - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=au.com.decipher.deciphergo&hl=en

Feel free to try it out - it is free!
Is quite old pictures, my house isn't on it and it's 9 years old.
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Just started using Rhiza contour- twice daily SAR images (radar so way better than NDVI) its a bit of a game changer IMO and NDVI look very 1990's all of a sudden !
 

Rhiza-UK

Member
Location
Wiltshire
As Clive says, we've just launched our new platform in the UK, daily optical scanning at 3.5m resolution, SAR imagery providing Growth Stage, LAI, GAI, biomass and yield forecasts. Precision weather data including leaf canopy wetness, soil moisture, temperatures and much more :)

Check it out here: http://contour.Rhiza-UK.com/
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
LAI, GAI and biomass data is going to be really useful I reckon and looking forward the yield prediction !!

In the meantime until we get busy on the ground the weather and soil condition data is some of the best I have had access to - think i need to tweak the accessibility to consider the better traffic carrying capacity of a no till soil though ! I would say more "moderate" than "poor" right now

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@Feldspar you mentioned I let you know when this was live - well it is now and I think you would like this - I "think" @Rhiza-UK are doing some free trials if you get in touch with them
 
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Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
It incorporates the latest in machine learning, so if you change the field accessibility it will learn about the current weather conditions and update for the future accordingly. It's a smart bit of kit! :)

I have been changing the "poor" to "moderate" for the last few days - I guess it will learn eventually !

what was interesting was the 100day historic says our soils were 90$% of the wettest they have ever been here just before Christmas

what I'm not looking forward to is watching it quantify yield drop if we get a dry June ! there is some data you would rather not know ! :(
 

Rhiza-UK

Member
Location
Wiltshire
Yeah I'm not sure how quickly it learns but it will do.

Hopefully it will help to improve operations planning, spray days, drilling windows, etc.

If it starts getting too dry maybe we'll turn it off lol...all we can do is keep our fingers crossed for the right weather!
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
I have been changing the "poor" to "moderate" for the last few days - I guess it will learn eventually !

what was interesting was the 100day historic says our soils were 90$% of the wettest they have ever been here just before Christmas

what I'm not looking forward to is watching it quantify yield drop if we get a dry June ! there is some data you would rather not know ! :(
Yes it seems you have pinched all the south island's rainfall.
Bit greedy, Clive....
Our soils have never seen so little rain for such a long period, where I am has had 10.1mm for January, temperatures well above normal for the past year, and soil moisture around 6-7% of field capacity!

Definitely agree that this sort of tech gives huge insight into your land that you just can't get from groundlevel, even on our little bit you can see new things in terms of fertility and even the yield losses from compaction in places, definitely the effects of slope across the seasons, different pasture mixes..
 

Wombat

Member
BASIS
Location
East yorks
As Clive says, we've just launched our new platform in the UK, daily optical scanning at 3.5m resolution, SAR imagery providing Growth Stage, LAI, GAI, biomass and yield forecasts. Precision weather data including leaf canopy wetness, soil moisture, temperatures and much more :)

Check it out here: http://contour.Rhiza-UK.com/

What’s the pricing structure for it thanks?
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
Yes it seems you have pinched all the south island's rainfall.
Bit greedy, Clive....
Our soils have never seen so little rain for such a long period, where I am has had 10.1mm for January, temperatures well above normal for the past year, and soil moisture around 6-7% of field capacity!

Definitely agree that this sort of tech gives huge insight into your land that you just can't get from groundlevel, even on our little bit you can see new things in terms of fertility and even the yield losses from compaction in places, definitely the effects of slope across the seasons, different pasture mixes..

does seem like it started raining here just before Christmas and hasn't really stopped since ! it interesting placing that data in the context of the last 30 years history though as a percentile of just how wet !


Growth stage and Biomass maps are showing up some interesting differences already that are worth investigating on the ground - having a twice daily high res image is almost like having your own private drone up there all day !
 

Kiwi Pete

Member
Livestock Farmer
I have already identified quite a few areas of interest from the OPs app so can only imagine what the twice a day updates would give.

You think you can see plenty from the ground especially on a livestock farm but it does give perspective when you see gateways and crossings lagging month after month... obviously good places to focus our efforts on bringing into line - you otherwise just see it as a bit of collateral damage!
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
I have already identified quite a few areas of interest from the OPs app so can only imagine what the twice a day updates would give.

You think you can see plenty from the ground especially on a livestock farm but it does give perspective when you see gateways and crossings lagging month after month... obviously good places to focus our efforts on bringing into line - you otherwise just see it as a bit of collateral damage!


the SAR (radar) data is so much better than NVDI - its like the difference between looking at something in 3d rather than 2d
 
Just started using Rhiza contour- twice daily SAR images (radar so way better than NDVI) its a bit of a game changer IMO and NDVI look very 1990's all of a sudden !
I understand that the mechanism for collecting the image is different, but this image still has to be processed into an index to be meaningful. How does this differ in that respect as it is presented as LAI /GAI/ Biomass of which NVDI is effectively a combination?
 

Clive

Staff Member
Arable Farmer
Location
Lichfield
I understand that the mechanism for collecting the image is different, but this image still has to be processed into an index to be meaningful. How does this differ in that respect as it is presented as LAI /GAI/ Biomass of which NVDI is effectively a combination?

@Rhiza-UK would be better to answer that than me - I’m just a farmer using it !

As I understand though the total biomass is measured by the radar so total volume of biomass is known to base N application upon.

By comparisin NDVI is just a 2d image of canopy and no measure of the rest of the plant biomass, just assumptions
 

Boysground

Member
Mixed Farmer
Location
Wiltshire
@Rhiza-UK A little bit off topic but I am putting separated cattle slurry onto both wheat and grass crops and always have trouble getting the subsequent nitrogen applications right. Do you think your system would be a help to me to get things more accurate? I know that last year I had a field of wheat that under performed and I am sure its because it didnt respond to the slurry as well as the other fields, if I had a way of knowing I could have applied more N. With the grass the issue is always not wanting high N in the grass when we cut in May.

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Rhiza-UK

Member
Location
Wiltshire
The SAR imagery gives you independent indexes for LAI and GAI, and the biomass is measured in t/ha. NDVI essentially looks at greenness of the crop from a top-down 2-D perspective, SAR is 'feeling' the crop, sensing canopy structure and how thick it is from a 3-D perspective.

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Rhiza-UK

Member
Location
Wiltshire
@Rhiza-UK A little bit off topic but I am putting separated cattle slurry onto both wheat and grass crops and always have trouble getting the subsequent nitrogen applications right. Do you think your system would be a help to me to get things more accurate? I know that last year I had a field of wheat that under performed and I am sure its because it didnt respond to the slurry as well as the other fields, if I had a way of knowing I could have applied more N. With the grass the issue is always not wanting high N in the grass when we cut in May.

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Yes most definitely, the biomass readings will give you a good indication of how much nitrogen has been taken up by the crop. In the instance of last year, the under performing field would have had a lower biomass reading due to less N response from the slurry. This would have given you a good basis for increasing the N applications. SAR should really help fine tune N applications in all situations.
 

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