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Resources for agriculture.

Learning paths, the standards cited across this site and the explainers that show the systems in 3D.

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  1. Agriculture · Resources

    Farm decisions on measured ground

    Agrometeorological stations and soil-moisture profiles, frost and disease alerts, low-power coverage across the farm, crop condition from orbit and drone, and cooperative networks where neighbours share one grid. Needs: soil moisture and evapotranspiration, frost, heat and disease risk, crop condition, water use and coverage across fields.

  2. Story

    Rural village

    A worked story shows how a agriculture deployment runs end to end, from the instruments and the radio to the edge, the console and the people who act on the result. Each story names its sources and the standards it relies on.

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  3. Story

    Farmland

    A worked story shows how a agriculture deployment runs end to end, from the instruments and the radio to the edge, the console and the people who act on the result. Each story names its sources and the standards it relies on.

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  4. Story

    Airspace drones

    A worked story shows how a agriculture deployment runs end to end, from the instruments and the radio to the edge, the console and the people who act on the result. Each story names its sources and the standards it relies on.

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  5. Story

    Lpwan mesh

    A worked story shows how a agriculture deployment runs end to end, from the instruments and the radio to the edge, the console and the people who act on the result. Each story names its sources and the standards it relies on.

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  6. What must be measured

    Agriculture: what must be measured

    Soil moisture and evapotranspiration, frost, heat and disease risk, crop condition, water use and coverage across fields. Each is measured by instruments sited to recognised practice, read by a base node that stamps, checks and signs every value. The quality flag and the provenance travel with the data, so a decision can be traced to the reading behind it.

  7. Trust

    Every node proves what it is

    A node joins only after its hardware root of trust answers an attestation challenge. Keys stay in secure hardware, software arrives signed, and every reading carries a signature, so its origin can be checked by anyone downstream without asking us.

  8. Time and place

    Every reading carries when and where

    Readings are stamped against a disciplined clock, from satellite time or a PTP grandmaster, together with the station position and its siting record. When time or position is degraded, the record says so instead of hiding it, and every analyst downstream sees the same warning.

  9. Updates

    Updates in rings, with rollback

    Software and configuration reach the fleet in rings: a canary site first, then a few, then all, each ring gated on health and data completeness. A failed gate stops the wave and returns each node to its last good release, without a site visit.

  10. Operations

    Every node watched, every incident closed

    The operations console shows every node with its state, its plan and its evidence. Alerts arrive with their data and a runbook; acknowledging one opens a work order, and an incident closes only when the cause is recorded and the fix verified.

  11. Field service

    One crew, from survey to repair

    The same crew surveys, installs, commissions, calibrates and repairs, working from the site’s own record. Each visit updates it, so the next crew knows exactly what is there, when it was last checked and why it was changed. Spares and references are planned from that history.

  12. What you get

    Agricultural field observatories

    Soil moisture profiles, micro-weather and evapotranspiration with irrigation thresholds per field. Delivered as managed service and data licence, for growers, agribusiness, irrigation districts, crop insurers. Scale: Farm to region. Service levels are written as numbers you can measure on your own dashboard.

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  13. Next step

    Plan an agriculture deployment

    Tell us the sites, the measurements and the people who will use them. We reply with a design and a scope for agriculture. An engineer replies with a survey proposal and a scope, and the plan grows from one site to the network you need, at your pace.

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01Learning paths

From first principles to a commissioned site.

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Academy

The principles of observation, the protocol and the lifecycle of a site.Start learning →

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Training and enablement

Operator, crew and engineer training on the systems you own.The training platform →

03

Explainers

The systems in 3D, chapter by chapter, drawn to scale.Open the explainer →

02Standards

The standards cited on this site.

  • WMO-No. 134 (agrometeorological practices)
  • ISO 11783 (ISOBUS)
  • National mesonet programme standards
  • WMO-No. 8

03Explainer and stories

See it at work.

The industry in 3D, and field stories with the systems in each and the sources behind them.

Explainer

Agriculture, explained

Farm decisions on measured ground.Open the explainer →
Rural village

A village at the end of the line

Where the fibre ends, a single mast, a satellite terminal and a handful of sensors decide whether a village is on the map of observation. Canada’s target is…Read the story →
Farmland

Field to forecast

A farm observes water: in the soil, in the crop and in the air above it. Crop water use is computed from weather with a method agronomists have shared for…Read the story →
Airspace and drones

A shared sky below 120 metres

Flying beyond visual line of sight turns a drone from a camera on a stick into infrastructure. It needs a command link that holds, an identity others can…Read the story →
LPWAN and mesh

Kilometres on a coin cell

Most environmental sensors send a few bytes a few times an hour. Low-power wide-area networks trade bandwidth for range and battery life; mesh networks…Read the story →
AI weather and geospatial foundation models

Models that learned the atmosphere

In three years, machine-learned weather models went from research papers to operations. They learned from decades of reanalysis, which means they inherit…Read the story →

04Terms

What people search for in this industry.

farm weather stationfrost alertirrigation scheduling sensorsoil moisture probe LoRaWANagromet networkcrop disease model

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Survey, design, deployment and operation for agriculture. The form names who receives your details.

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Resources for agriculture.

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