Sixty fields checked before breakfast
Vikram is an independent crop adviser outside Hyderabad. Sixty farms pay him to keep their cotton and rice healthy.
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The challenge
He can visit maybe six farms a day, so each farm sees him once every two weeks. By the time he spots a field turning yellow from pests or thirst, the damage is done. He spends more time on the road than in the fields.
How the flow works
With xMap Flows, Vikram built Orbit. Orbit is an AI employee: a flow of 5 blocks.
Every Monday morning,
Every Monday (Schedule)
Orbit takes his sixty farms,
His sixty farms (My data)
finds the latest clear satellite picture of each field,
Latest clear picture (Satellite images)
adds the rain expected in the week ahead,
Rain in the week ahead (Weather forecast)
and puts every field on one map, picture by picture.
All fields on one map (Show on a map)
What it solves
- Six farms a day: solved by Satellite images and Show on a map
- Problems spotted late: solved by Satellite images and Weather forecast
- More road than field: solved by Show on a map
The result
On Monday, Vikram opens one map and clicks through sixty fields in twenty minutes. Three near Chevella look paler than their neighbours. He drives straight there, finds stem borer early, and saves the crop.
Vikram still walks the fields. He just knows which ones need him.
An illustrative scenario: the figures are modelled to show what the flow produces, not a customer's results.
The flow, block by block
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His sixty farms
Brings in a table you uploaded or a list you saved on the My data page: your stores, customers, target accounts or sites.
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Latest clear picture
Recent satellite pictures (Sentinel-2, about 10 m per pixel, a new pass every few days) of each incoming place, a point or the Area of interest: when it was taken, how cloudy, and the picture itself.
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Rain in the week ahead
The weather forecast (Open-Meteo, from national weather services) for up to 16 days: temperature, rain, wind and UV.
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Templates to build it
Ready-made flows with the same blocks. Open one, change the city and the kind of place, and run it.
- Public projects from space, every monthA monthly satellite picture of each public project, with the weather.
- Weekly field watch from spaceThe latest clear satellite picture of each field, with the week's weather and a note.
- Land offers, checked from space and the groundEvery plot offered to you checked from space and the ground, scored and approved.
- Class finder chat for my membersA chat that finds classes in your timetable and warns about the weather outdoors.
- Plan tomorrow's outdoor classesTomorrow's outdoor classes planned around heat, rain and UV.
- Camp growth seen from space, every monthHow each camp is changing, seen from space every month.
Industries
Learn how it works
- Data enrichmentAdding details to records you already have.
- Satellite imagery (Sentinel-2)Regular free pictures of the Earth from space.
- How to score candidate store sitesCompare sites on residents, competitors and neighbours, with an AI score and a reason.
- Weather forecastUp to 16 days for each place or city.
- Satellite imagesThe latest clear picture of each site.
- Your own tables and lists (My data)Upload a CSV, save lists of results, and use them in flows.
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