Ten capability lines, grouped by what the systems do: reason, remember, observe, hold.
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Yield, soil condition and water use on most farms here are estimated rather than measured. The first season of real measurement rarely tells you what you expected.
A commercial farm wanted yield prediction. What it needed first was to know what was actually happening in its own fields.
Yield prediction from satellite indices is a well-studied problem and the methods transfer reasonably. What does not transfer is the calibration: the relationship between an index value and a yield in tonnes depends on variety, soil, planting date and management, all of which are local.
So the first season produces a calibration, not a forecast. Saying so at the start is the difference between a client who understands what they bought and one who concludes the technology does not work.
Soil moisture probes placed for convenience tell you about the places that were convenient. Placed against a sampling design that accounts for the soil variation across the block, the same number of probes supports a conclusion about the block.
The yield model was interesting. The irrigation scheduling was what paid. Knowing soil moisture at two depths, in near real time, changed the timing of irrigation events and reduced water use measurably within one season, with no model required beyond a threshold and an alert.
That is a common shape. The ambitious piece justifies the project and the simple piece delivers most of the first-year value. Both are worth building; it helps to be honest about which is which.
An imported crop classification model reported 94 per cent accuracy and was wrong about a third of the fields we checked. The gap was not the model. It was the ground truth.
Institutions ask for a dashboard and discover they have bought a question. Here is the order of work that actually produces a number somebody is willing to sign.
Most exploration licences in the region sit on more geophysical and satellite coverage than anybody has looked at carefully. Fusing what exists is usually cheaper than acquiring more.
Not the technology you think you need. The decision, who makes it, and on what evidence. We will tell you plainly whether there is a system in it.
