The Dashboard tab has several sections and keeps actual and up-to-date info about the field: general field information, vegetation, weather, growing degree days, precipitation, soil moisture, last scouting reports, active alerts, etc.; fertilizer application, other field works; satellite images of your field. To display this more detailed information, choose a field in any general fields list or on any field map.
- For instance, choose a field on the Monitoring Center page.
- You’ll be automatically redirected to the Field’s personalized page in the Dashboard section.
Make sure that you have selected the right Field Group and Season/Year in the Navigator at the right corner of the Main Menu.
1) At the top page there is the Field Info box — that is, the most important parameters of the field for the current season: name, crop, variety, yield, sowing and harvesting dates, harvest, soil tillage type, etc.
PLEASE NOTE that the system shows three types of field area, for more information see Legal, Tillable, Mappable Acres:
- tillable area (the area that is tilled during the current season),
- legal area (the area that is recorded in the documents),
- mappable area (automatically calculated by the system on a field contour).
— The first two types are manually changed values, while, the mappable (mapped, calculated) area has been rated automatically by the Cropwise Operations based on the field boundaries and it can be changed only if the field boundaries are changed.
2) Growing Degree Days (GDD) is a heat index that can be used to predict when a crop will reach maturity. Total GDD is calculated as sum of each day’s GDD. GDD for day calculated by subtracting a reference temperature from the daily mean temperature. The system uses a base temperature of 5°C and 10°C for GDD calculations.
GDD is calculated for each field individually from a sowing date that the user provide on the Field’s personalized page or in an agricultural operation (its end date) and from January 1st of each year for both the Northern Hemisphere and the Southern Hemisphere. If the user doesn’t provide the information on the sowing date, it will not be available data on GDD from starting sowing.
3) The most recent Satellite Image of high resolution is given at the top right corner of the page.
- You can also select a field image for any other date you are interested in (provided such images have been uploaded). In addition, more detailed high resolution images can be explored in the Dashboard⇒ Images tab.
- The NDVI cell (between Field Info and Satellite Images) shows the latest Vegetation Index for the field which was calculated on the basis of the satellite imagery, as well as the date when the picture was taken (update date is also given). In addition, Cropwise Operations automatically calculates the average Vegetation index for all the fields with the same crop in the group and informs whether there are any deviations in the target field.
1) The first one is a Vegetation chart.
- The green line on the chart displays the dynamics of the vegetation of the chosen field. You can trace the evolution of crops from the moment of sprouting and until the maturing, as well as check the status of the vegetation on the field before planting and after harvest, and determine whether the observed field has weeds, etc.
- You will also notice the grey dashed line on the graph. It means the average vegetation for a specific crop in the current season. In other words, the system shows you how this field develops in reference to other fields with the same crop in the current season. If the green line is higher than the grey line, then it is a productive field with healthy crops, if the line is significantly lower, then the crops on the field are likely to be damaged.
Three other graphics show detailed meteorological information, weather conditions for the field during the period from the beginning of the year:
2) Temperature (Air and Soil),
3) Precipitation (accumulated since the start of the year and daily)
4) Soil Moisture (for three depths)
- Cropwise Operations uses data combinations obtained from several satellites — synthetic-aperture radar and weather satellites to calculate soil moisture on three depths:
- from 0 to 7 cm (0 to 70 mm)
- from 7 to 28 cm (70–280 mm)
- from 28 to 100 cm (280–1000 mm)
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