Satellite & Remote Sensing
Remote Sensing: Data & Integrations
What is recorded, what it connects to and who can see it.
The module maintains 7 core entities and connects to 5 external sources. Everything is exportable in open formats and every instance of sharing requires explicit consent.
Data model
What the module records, and how it connects
These are the entities the module maintains. Because they are shared across the platform rather than owned by one screen, a record created here is available everywhere it is relevant.
- Scene
- Index layer
- Time series
- Anomaly
- Zone
- Cloud mask
- Evidence archive
Every entity carries a full audit trail and is exportable in open formats under the Farm Data Charter.
Integrations
What it connects to
Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources rather than rebuilding them. Where no production interface exists, a documented user-mediated route is provided instead.
- Copernicus Sentinel-1 and Sentinel-2
- Commercial imagery providers
- Field boundary graph
- Variable rate prescription builder
- Scheme evidence endpoints
Integration availability, licensing and cost vary by source. The integration catalogue states the position for each one honestly, including where a commercial licence is required.
Detail
How the data is held
Public satellite programmes provide regular, free, ten-metre imagery over the whole UK, which is sufficient for most in-season monitoring decisions. This module ingests and processes that imagery into usable indices, handles cloud gaps with radar, and turns the resulting maps into zoning, scouting priorities and scheme evidence rather than pretty pictures.
Sentinel-2 provides approximately weekly optical revisit at ten-metre resolution, and Sentinel-1 radar penetrates cloud, which matters greatly in a UK climate where optical gaps are routine. Remote sensing is also increasingly used by paying agencies for monitoring, which makes it as much a compliance reality as an agronomic tool.
Everything Remote Sensing records is written into the same platform data spine as every other module, which is why a single entry can satisfy an operational need, a scheme evidence requirement, an assurance clause and a carbon activity line at once. That is the whole design premise: the work is already being done, and it is the recording of it that is duplicated.
How we handle evidence
Where these figures come from
Agrivencia grades every figure it publishes. Primary legislation, official statistics and audit reports are treated as authoritative. Levy body and professional body data is treated as reliable. Commercial trackers and trade press are treated as indicative and labelled as such. Where sources conflict, the conflict is shown rather than resolved silently.
- Authoritative Legislation, statutory instruments, official scheme rules, national audit and public accounts reporting, departmental annual reports and accredited official statistics.
- Reliable Parliamentary committee evidence, peer-reviewed research, independent economic institutes and levy body analysis.
- Supporting Professional bodies, land agents, certification schemes and industry associations.
- Indicative Commercial market trackers and trade press, used for corroboration only and always labelled.
Payment rates, caps and windows in UK farm support change frequently and sometimes without notice. Nothing on this platform is a substitute for the current published scheme rules or for professional advice.
Questions answered
What people ask about Remote Sensing
Does this replace the software I already use?
Not necessarily. Agrivencia integrates with authoritative sources and mainstream packages rather than insisting on replacing them. Where an incumbent does one job well, the platform connects to it; where the job spans several systems and nobody does it, the platform does it.
Will it work where I have no signal?
Yes. Field capture in Remote Sensing is offline first, storing locally and synchronising when a connection returns. Only around a fifth of UK farms report reliable signal across the whole holding, so this is a design assumption rather than a feature.
What happens when the scheme rules change?
Scheme rules are held as data rather than code, so a rate change, a cap change or a window closure is a content update that takes effect the same day. The platform also alerts you to what the change does to your own position.
Who owns the data I put in?
You do. The Farm Data Charter gives you a complete export in open formats at any time, and every instance of data sharing requires an explicit, revocable consent that is visible in your account.
Does it work if I farm across a border?
Yes, and that is one of the main reasons the platform exists. A business with land in more than one nation sees one reconciled view rather than two portals, with obligations and deadlines from both administrations in a single calendar.
Can my agronomist or land agent use it too?
Yes. You grant scoped, time-limited access per holding and per module, and you can revoke it in one click. Advisers never get a shared password or a blanket view.
What is the biggest limitation of this module?
Persistent cloud in a UK climate. Mitigated by radar fallback. We would rather state that plainly than let you discover it after signing.
See Remote Sensing running on your own holding
Thirty minutes, using your parcels, your schemes and your enterprises rather than a sample farm. No obligation and no sales script — if it does not fit your business we will say so.
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- Your data stays yours