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Planting View – Agri-Environmental Intelligence

Every field, mapped and understood.

High-resolution satellite analytics at field level, with automated farm boundary delineation and change detection.

Industry
Agriculture
Status
Completed
Timeline
1404 (SH)
Planting View – Agri-Environmental Intelligence
DATA FOR
HEALTHIER FIELDS
01 / The Problem

Pixels don't tell you about farms.

Pixel-based analysis blurs field edges and mixes crops, making farm-level statistics and agricultural cadastre work inaccurate.

No reliable farm-boundary database
Pixel-level noise in analysis
Hard to compute farm-level statistics
Land-use changes go unnoticed
Field-level accuracy
Field-level
accuracy
02 / Our Solution

Object-based analysis at field level.

Planting View automatically delineates agricultural fields, builds a farm database at county, state or country scale and runs object-based analysis for more accurate statistics, cadastre services and change detection.

Technical details
Field Boundary Delineation
Field Boundary Delineation
Automated farm database at scale
High-Resolution Analysis
High-Resolution Analysis
Object-based processing per field
Change Detection
Change Detection
Land use, vegetation, urban growth and infrastructure
03 / System Architecture

From satellite image to farm database.

Designed for national-scale processing.

Imagery
(High-resolution satellite)
Segmentation
(Field boundaries)
Analytics
(Per-field statistics)
Platform
(Maps & reports)
04 / Technical Details

What Planting View delivers.

High-resolution spatial analysis
  • Enhanced analysis at agricultural land and field level
  • Transition from pixel-based to object-based processing for improved accuracy
  • Support for agricultural cadastre services
Field boundary delineation
  • Outlines every field automatically from satellite images, even when neighbouring fields look alike
  • Keeps touching fields apart, so each one gets its own clean shape
  • Builds a farm database at county, state or country level
Irrigated or rainfed
  • Maps Iran's farmland as irrigated or rainfed at 10 m detail
  • Combines Sentinel and Landsat imagery with climate data, so past years can be mapped too
  • Adapts to local crops from only a small number of labelled fields
Crop monitoring
  • Follows each field's growth stage, planting date and growth delay
  • Flags weeds, water stress and nutrient shortage on the map
  • Irrigation advice with a 14-day forecast
Change detection & country-scale view
  • Tracks land use, vegetation, urban growth and infrastructure over time
  • Follows changes across the years, such as irrigated wheat area per province
  • Helps plan seasons and suggest crops that suit local water, climate and soil
05 / Results

Results.

+27%
More accurate field outlines than the leading public model
10 m
Detail of the irrigated vs rainfed map
3
Scales: county, state, country
Amirreza Zibafar

Precision agriculture brings technologies together to farm more efficiently, so we can head off a food-security crisis.

Amirreza Zibafar
Machine Learning Engineer, ZLab
PEOPLE
TECHNOLOGY
COLLABORATION
REAL IMPACT
06 / The Team

The people behind it.

A multidisciplinary team of engineers, researchers and domain experts.

Amirreza Zibafar
Amirreza Zibafar
Machine Learning Engineer
Seyed Ali Ahmadi
Seyed Ali Ahmadi
Tech Lead & Product Manager
07 / Gallery

More from this project.

Visuals of the system and its components.

Field boundary delineation
Pixel- vs object-based analysis
Change detection over time
Field outlines on a satellite map
Fields, boundaries and contact zones
Field monitoring with NDVI over time
Detected fields on a satellite map
08 / What's Next

Scaling for broader impact.

We are extending field-level analytics to crop-type mapping and yield-related indicators.

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