Satellites revisit farmland and forest every few days. The question is not whether the data exists, but whether anyone turns it into a per-field answer before the decision has already been made.
Satellite crop monitoring uses repeated imagery to track the condition of each field through a season: emergence, vigour, stress, harvest. Land use monitoring applies the same approach to plots and landscapes, flagging conversion, clearance or deforestation. AI turns the image time series into per-field and per-plot signals instead of maps someone has to read.
Two uses drive most demand. Agronomy and farm management, where the signal guides scouting and inputs. And supply-chain due diligence, where buyers must show that commodities did not come from recently deforested land, as the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR) requires for products in its scope. A satellite alert is evidence to investigate, not a verdict: whether a plot is compliant is a determination your organisation makes, with field checks where it matters.
Crop models are validated against yield records, scouting notes or field visits from previous seasons, and reported per crop and region, because a model that works on wheat in one valley can fail on maize in the next. We hold out whole seasons, not random pixels, so the test resembles the next year rather than the last one.
Clearance alerts are validated against reference datasets and plots your team has already checked on the ground. Cloud-heavy regions get radar-based detection alongside optical, and every alert records which images it used, so an auditor or a supplier can see exactly what the satellite saw.
Satellites such as Sentinel-2 photograph each field every few days in visible and infrared light. Healthy vegetation reflects infrared strongly, so indices like NDVI track how much green, growing crop there is. A model compares each field with its own history and with similar fields to flag stress, delayed emergence or harvest, and radar fills in when clouds block the view.
They are the main practical tool for it. Imagery before and after the regulation’s cut-off date shows whether a plot was forest and whether it was cleared, at the plot geometry suppliers provide. The satellite evidence supports a due-diligence decision; it does not make one, and ambiguous cases need field verification. Your legal team should confirm which products and dates apply to you.
For most fields and forest plots, free Sentinel-2 imagery is detailed enough and frequent enough. Very small plots, smallholder agriculture or tree-level questions may need commercial high-resolution imagery. We test on your own plots before recommending paid data, because resolution costs money and does not always change the answer.
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