OneSoil, a Swiss agtech company building AI tools for precision agriculture, today released a new version of Global Analytics, its system for mapping fields and identifying crops from satellite imagery. The product is now available in more than 45 countries across Europe and other regions, including the U.S., Canada, Argentina, Brazil, South Africa, Australia, and Kazakhstan.
Using satellite imagery at 2.5-meter resolution, the new version draws more precise field boundaries, making each field easier to tell apart from its neighbors. It also expands crop detection from 12 crops to up to 28, ranging from staples such as wheat, maize, and soybeans to olives, grapes, and coffee. In supported markets, the models can also distinguish between growing seasons. In the U.S., for example, they identify winter and summer crops separately.
To recognize the additional crops, OneSoil trained its proprietary machine learning models on its own dataset of about 2 million fields, built over several years of working with farmers and agricultural businesses. Crop records go back to 2016, so users can study how crops have rotated over time, check information reported by farmers, track agricultural production, and spot regional trends. Crop identification is typically 90–95% accurate in validated markets, depending on the crop, region, and season, the company said.
Different businesses can put this information to work in different ways. Agtech platforms can integrate field boundaries and crop information without developing their own detection models, while food and supply chain companies can better understand agricultural activity in their sourcing regions. Agricultural input manufacturers and distributors can analyze crop distribution and cultivated areas to support market planning. Banks and insurers can incorporate field-level agricultural information into verification and risk assessment processes, and research and sustainability platforms can use field boundaries and crop data as inputs for further analysis.
“We are very proud of the system because it gives businesses a broader view of crop distribution and cultivated areas,” said Stepan Zulynskyi, CEO of OneSoil. “That helps them analyze agricultural activity at both field and regional levels and make better decisions about yields and profitability.”
