INDICES- Optimise field activities using agrometeorological indices
- Monitor growth and stress of crops though our vegetation index
- Combine data to get more precise information
- Create nutrient prescription maps
- Exploit data from sensors, weather stations and machinery
Decision Support System Dashboard
SITI4farmer provides dedicated dashboards for specific issues, indices and information in order to:
- Assess the appropriate time for sowing, harvesting, irrigating or other agricultural practices
- Highlight the areas where the vegetative growth is not uniform
- Compare the occurrence of phenological phases of the fields with the same crop on the basis of vegetative index diagrams in one reference field controlled daily
- Automatically obtain prescription maps that are based on the vegetation index
- Creating prescription maps that take into account other information layers by means of a GIS editor
These dashboards use threshold values for each parameter subject to evaluation and trigger automatic warning messages. These values are user-configurable.
Should you have other neeeds such as using data from in-field sensors, weather stations, drones, a dashboard customisation service is available (for further information see ADVANCED SERVICES)
Agrometeorological Indexes
SITI4farmer processes data in real-time and for each field and crop the system feeds back:
- Soil evaporation and transpiration
- Soil Hydro-balance
- Soil temperature
- Global Solar Radiation
The indices above are strictly linked to meteorology and they are displayed as:
- Themed evaporation-transpiration and hydro-balance per crop, with historical data from 2006, in real-time and as a forecast (5 days)
- Charts for daily trends (historical, real-time or forecast) for all the indices combined with weather-variables diagrams
- Historical and real-time simulation of the comparison between current and potential crop
Vegetation Index
SITI4farmer provides the NDVI – (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index), calculated in real-time and updated every 3-4 days in order to:
- Represent each plot on a map, with the vitality of the crop and its variations
- Assess the areas lacking vegetation due to water conditions, insufficient nutrients in the soil or local diseases
- Show vegetation evolution in the field for the past 3 years on the map
- Compare a monitored plot to other plots with the same crop
The Vegetation Index is extracted from 10 m-resolution multi-spectrum images from satellites Landsat 8 and Sentinel 2A, 2B (Copernicus project). This satellite provides data starting from October 2017
