For over 30 years Airbus has shaped how satellite imagery is used for agricultural applications and everyday, tens of thousands of farmers rely on its solutions to better manage their farming activities. Our monitoring services support you in the development of productive and sustainable agricultural practices.
Discover the technology within our agricultural services: Biophysical Parameters
Understanding and monitoring crop growth within fields is essential for all stakeholders in agriculture. Thanks to an unrivalled processing suite (Overland), we provide industry-leading maps characterising vegetation using a vast range of satellite and UAV imagery.
100% usable: access to biomass and nitrogen information, anywhere
100% carefree: consistent whatever the sensor, dependable cloud masking
100% operational: easy to convert into practical farming recommendations
For more than 15 years, Farmstar has supported French farmers looking to optimise their yield, improving their harvest quality, rationalising fertiliser input and safeguarding the environment. It mixes satellite and unmanned aerial platform (UAV) imagery with strong agronomic expertise.
From seeding to harvest, Farmstar provides comprehensive advice for wheat, barley, triticale and rapeseed, at intra-field scale and perfectly timed with the crop cycle.
Farmstar is a service co-developed by Airbus Defence and Space and Arvalis-Institut du Végétal (French Technical Institute for Cereals) with the support of Terre-Inovia (French Technical Institute for Rapeseed Crop).
Increases yield, improves harvest quality
Supports farming regulation compliance
Reduces costs and simplifies field work
Minimises farming impact on environment
Many companies producing, transforming or consuming agricultural commodities are making efforts to reduce their footprint in terms of deforestation. The challenge they face is to independently verify the results of their efforts.
Conventional certification is limited: the standards do not always match the challenges of the sector and the usual methods of expertise, based on field inspection, provide neither the completeness nor the responsiveness required.
Together with The Forest Trust (TFT) and SarVision,we developed the Starling service that uses high resolution optical and radar satellite imagery to provide unbiased monitoring of forest cover change. Starling aims at supporting companies to meet the promises set out in their forest conservation policies.
“Starling will help us to do better by co-working with our supplier”
Pierre-Alexandre Teulié, Nestlé Head of Corporate Communications, Public Affairs, e-Business and CSR
Starling is a monitoring package over commodity production landscapes, including:
Verify commitment and support decision-making for commodity sourcing and determine how/where to engage
Achieve transparency goals towards NGOs, civil society, governmental bodies and independently mitigate reputational risk
Differentiate from competition for preferential treatment on the market
Engage third parties and stakeholders to transform the industry across all areas of the value chain
The Grassland Production Index is a service allowing insurers to cover cattle breeders against shortages in forage yield. It features a reliable and continuous estimation of grass growth over the entire French territory. Month after month, the indicator is compared to the historical average, the max and min record years in grassland production, at a local (yet not individual) scale.
When the index drops below an agreed threshold, the insurers compensate all insured breeders within the impacted local province within the conditions defined in their respective contracts- without any paperwork or on-site expert inspection.
GPI is currently the sole index validated by the French government and French Agricultural Insurance Scheme, after a complete, detailed ground-based validation campaign (grass cut and weight). It has also been approved by the breeders unions and today, remains the sole index that is subsidised by the European Union.
"From mid-July, my province was affected by drought. I used my forage stocks but they weren’t enough. At the end of 2016, the insurance index indicated a production deviation of 35%. My insurance company then paid me compensation of € 9,120 to buy the fodder required for my stock" Mr. Martinet, beef farmer (Haute Vienne, France)
Rapid, fair, unbiased compensation for cattle breeders
Streamlined paperwork for insurance companies and insured parties
No more need to send insurance experts on-site to assess damage extent
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