Soil compaction detection
Read the tramlines the crop is drawing for you
Growth patterns, imagery and machine data together show where heavy traffic has closed the soil up.
What this costs today
Compaction is invisible from the surface and expensive to find with a penetrometer, so it usually gets diagnosed years late by a crop that keeps underperforming in the same strips. Headlands, gateways and the lines a full trailer took in a wet harvest are the usual suspects, but suspicion is not a map.
How the flight runs
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Overlay
Crop performance from multispectral flights is laid over the machine traffic your terminals recorded.
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Correlate
Persistent underperformance that follows traffic lines is separated from underperformance that follows soil type.
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Rank
Suspected areas are ranked by size and yield cost so the penetrometer goes to the worst first.
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Confirm
Your ground measurements are recorded against each area and close the loop on the model.
What the aircraft carries
- Multispectral camera
- High resolution RGB camera
- Machine telemetry import
Once or twice per season, best read at peak biomass.
What you receive
- Suspected compaction map
- Ranked verification list
- Traffic intensity layer
- Remediation plan by area
What it measures
Readings this capability produces on your fields. Measurements, not promises.
- Suspected area as a share of the field
- Overlap with recorded traffic
- Yield gap inside suspected areas
- Areas confirmed on the ground
Where this carries the most weight
All use cases-
Winter wheat and barley
Establishment gaps, patchy weed pressure, septoria risk and a nitrogen plan that has to follow the field, not a flat rate.
Blocks of 10 to 120 hectares, flown as one route.
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Cooperatives and large estates
Fleet coverage across scattered blocks, comparable numbers between holdings, and reporting that rolls up cleanly.
2,000 to 40,000 hectares across scattered member blocks.
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Sugar beet
Wide rows and slow early growth make beet the crop where weed mapping and spot treatment save the most.
Blocks of 10 to 80 hectares.
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Potatoes
Blight surveillance on a tight cadence, irrigation uniformity from thermal imaging, and a yield estimate before lifting.
Blocks of 5 to 60 hectares, usually irrigated.