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Satellite Imagery

agronome.ai provides satellite imagery for every field with a defined boundary. View vegetation health indices, track changes over time, and compare aerial and satellite perspectives.

Data sources

Sentinel-2

Free, open-access imagery from the European Space Agency’s Copernicus program.
  • Resolution: 10m (visible bands), 20m (Red Edge, NIR, SWIR)
  • Revisit: Every 5 days
  • Coverage: Global
  • Cost: Free
Sentinel-2 imagery is available immediately for any field. No setup required.

Planet Labs

Commercial high-resolution imagery (requires subscription).
  • Resolution: 3m (PlanetScope), 50cm (SkySat)
  • Revisit: Daily (PlanetScope)
  • Coverage: Global
  • Cost: Subscription-based
Planet imagery requires connecting your Planet Labs account in Settings → Integrations.

Available layers

LayerBandsWhat it shows
Natural ColorRGBTrue-color aerial view
NDVI(NIR - Red) / (NIR + Red)Vegetation health and density
EVIEnhanced vegetation indexVegetation health in dense canopy
CIRNIR, Red, GreenColor infrared — healthy vegetation appears bright red

Viewing imagery

  1. Navigate to a field’s Analyze tab
  2. Select a date from the timeline
  3. Choose a layer type (Natural Color, NDVI, EVI, CIR)
  4. Use the opacity slider to compare with the base map

Tile caching

Satellite tiles are cached in two layers for performance:
  1. Redis — hot cache for recently viewed tiles (TTL-based)
  2. Google Cloud Storage — persistent cache for all requested tiles
First-time tile requests fetch from the upstream provider (Sentinel Hub). Subsequent requests serve from cache with no upstream call.