Canadian broadacre — one field, one season, from orbit
A real 45.9 ha grain field in Saskatchewan, 2025 — sown, grown and harvested, every stage read from satellite. Now imagine it across every quarter-section in the book.
The whole season in one line. Bare ground through spring, a crop peaking at NDVI 0.802 in August, and a clean harvest signal in September — each dated to the satellite pass. Uniform field (variability just 0.068), with 3.5% reading below its own average for a targeted look.
Why this matters on the Prairies
Scale, automatically
This is one field. The same read — crop stage, uniformity, harvest date, damage — runs across thousands of quarter-sections at once, every pass, with no one driving a single mile. That's the difference between a scout's week and a satellite's morning.
What optical can't do — the radar layer
Radar reads crop structure, so it catches what a greenness picture can't: lodging (storm- or hail-flattened crop), hail scars, and harvest as a physical event — plus soil moisture — in any weather. For a grower or an insurer, those are the expensive events.
Claims verification
Per-field time series that date damage to within days and confirm reported events against an independent record. A blind back-test on a past claims season — your adjusters' findings vs our satellite record — is the cheapest way to see if it belongs in your workflow.
Honest, because a Prairie audience will know: unlike cloudy Europe, the dry Prairies get plenty of clear optical passes (here 80 usable in a year), and Sentinel-1 radar is actually sparser over central Saskatchewan (31 passes) than it is over the Atlantic. So we don't sell you an "all-weather frequency" story that doesn't hold here. On the Prairies the radar value is specific — lodging, hail, harvest structure, soil moisture, and continuity through the wet spring and fall windows — and the scale of watching every field at once.