Data
The aerial layer for autonomous equipment
AcreWatch is the aerial layer for autonomous equipment. Our docks and field crews capture the acres; our pipeline turns them into files your machines read.
The short version
From the acre to the machine
Three steps, and we only own the middle one. You already own the equipment at the end of it.
We capture
- Docks on site
- Field crews
AcreWatch pipeline
Imagery becomes maps, counts and zones, then the load file in the format your machine expects.
Your machines run it
- Planters, sprayers, spreaders
- Center pivots
- Weeding and scouting robots
- Autonomous tractors
- Dozers and excavators
What a flight produces
Maps, counts, surfaces and the zones behind them
Before any of it is a file, it is an answer to something somebody asked on the ground.
Orthomosaic
Current imagery of the whole site, measured and to scale, dated so any two captures overlay.
Health and stress maps
NDVI, NDRE and VARI across every acre, with the zones ranked rather than just coloured in.
Counts
Plant stand by zone, and head count against expected on a pasture flight.
Thermal
Heat signature for down or isolated animals, hot connections on a circuit, and water that is not where it should be.
Elevation and drainage
Contours and flow, which is where tile, a ditch or a grade change pays for itself.
Cut, fill and volumes
Surfaces against design, earthwork moved between two dates, and stockpile volumes on demand.
Prescription zones
The treat and skip zones behind a variable-rate or spot-spray job, at the rate you set per zone.
Defect lists
Blade, tower, substation and transmission findings keyed to the asset and its position.
Formats we deliver
The same finding, written the way the machine that runs it expects to read it.
- Shapefile (.shp)
- ISO-XML
- John Deere Operations Center upload
- Trimble
- Topcon
- Case IH AFS and Raven
- Ag Leader
- CNH
- DJI Agras task files
What reads it
We fly the acres and hand over the file. What runs it, and who you buy that from, stays your decision.
- Planters, sprayers, and spreaders with section or nozzle control
- Center pivots
- Weeding and scouting robots
- Autonomous tractors
- Machine control on dozers and excavators
How it reaches you
Three ways out of the pipeline
Your dashboard
Every flight, every finding and every file on the map, by field and by date. Your team signs in and takes what it needs.
Pushed to your account
Prescriptions and as-applied records sent straight into John Deere Operations Center, so they sit alongside the rest of the farm's records.
Straight to the machine
A load file in the format your monitor expects, on the stick or over the air, named so the operator can find it in the cab.
Accuracy
RTK-corrected capture with PPK logging on every flight, so this week's capture lands on last week's. Ground control on request for survey-grade work.
Who owns it
You do. We keep a copy to run the program and to hold the record a season is worth having. Nothing is sold, and nothing is shared with anybody you have not told us to share it with.
Partners
Vets to Drones, whose network of veteran pilots flies alongside ours.
The record a field keeps
Not every deliverable follows a crop's pass schedule or a herd's cadence. These apply to a cropped field and a pasture alike, and they are the ones people reach for a year later.
Orthomosaic
Current imagery of the whole field, measured and to scale, on the map in your portal
Boundary and acreage map
Measured acres and a KML boundary you can load straight into the monitor
Drainage and elevation
Contours and where the water actually goes, for tile and ditch planning
As-applied records
What went on and where, pulled off the rate controller and mapped
Insurance documentation
Dated imagery and a written record of damage, in the form an adjuster will take
Annual summary
Every flight on this field this year, what it found, and what it changed
The tools behind the files are free
As-applied maps for Operations Center and the pilot toolbox we use ourselves, open to anybody, whatever brand you fly.
Eyes in the sky. Decisions on the ground.
Put eyes in the sky over your operation.
Tell us about your acres, sites, or assets and we'll survey the site and map out a monitoring plan.