’India Cropland Data Layer’ datasets will be available at SatSure Sparta’s data platform exclusively from July 15, 2021
SatSure, a decision intelligence company based in Bengaluru and Switzerland-based St Gallen (Switzerland), have launched two new patent-pending data products to address the challenges around soil moisture and crop monitoring at scale. The farm-level soil moisture and the ’India Cropland Data Layer’ datasets will be available on its data platform SatSure Sparta exclusively from July 15, 2021, for visualisations, download and API based consumption, along with its freemium datasets on vegetation, land, water change detection and climate data categories.
Prateep Basu, Founder and CEO, SatSure said, “At SatSure, we believe in innovating as per the market’s needs rather than pushing technology to the market. While there are other soil moisture products offered by a few firms globally, what we have done is created a high spatial resolution daily soil moisture product using a combination of publicly available satellites, which is unique and as good as having an IoT device on every farm.”
Rashmit Singh Sukhmani, Co-founder and CTO, SatSure, added, “Both the products bring forth our team’s expertise in satellite data analytics and AI/ML. Just like SatSure Cygnus, where we are providing high-frequency optical satellite data by overcoming the visibility issues of cloud cover, especially during the monsoon season, through the India Cropland data layer, we are addressing another critical issue of satellite-based crop monitoring, and it is an essential data input for remote sensing and GIS analysts who perform crop classification using satellite images. Trained with more than half a million annotated datasets across different states, it significantly enhances crop classification accuracy, and it has been built using three years of openly available Sentinel-2 imagery from the European Space Agency.”
