EOS Data Analytics is a precision agriculture company from Ukraine. Here is a presentation written by the company.
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Through advanced satellite technology, EOS Data Analytics brings a new vision to sustainable agriculture and environmental care. By translating complex satellite data into accessible insights, EOSDA empowers farmers and environmentalists to respond swiftly to shifting crop conditions, optimize soil health, and manage resources with precision. This proactive approach helps reduce waste, improve yield, and supports a greener, healthier planet.
EOSDA LandViewer: Comprehensive Satellite Imagery Analysis
EOSDA LandViwer is a satellite image browser for viewing and downloading imagery of your need. This catalog of satellite images enables users to visualize, analyze, and monitor changes on any plot of land worldwide. By integrating real-time and historical satellite data, EOSDA LandViewer offers advanced functionalities, from tracking vegetation and land use changes to assessing urban development and environmental impact.
Designed for land managers, environmental scientists, urban planners, and governmental agencies, EOSDA LandViewer allows users to perform pixel-level analysis, generate vegetation indices, and create custom maps using multi-source Earth satellite images, including Landsat, Sentinel, and MODIS. With features like time-lapse generation and comprehensive analytics for land cover classification, the platform helps professionals make informed, data-driven decisions. Additionally, LandViewer provides downloadable data and detailed visualizations for easy integration into broader reports and presentations.
Case study
Now let’s move to an example of the platforms’ value in a real-life case.
To manage Nebraska’s vast forested areas more effectively, the Nebraska Forest Service (NFS) turned to EOSDA LandViewer, a satellite-based platform offering high-resolution imagery and automated data processing. Traditional ground-based surveys and low-resolution imagery had proven insufficient for capturing early signs of issues like pest infestations and wildfires, especially across Nebraska’s 1.1 million acres of forested land. By using EOSDA LandViewer, NFS achieved substantial improvements in both efficiency and accuracy, saving approximately 30% in operational time and improving data precision by 40%.
With EOSDA LandViewer’s NDVI and EVI vegetation indices, NFS was able to monitor forest health, map canopy coverage, and identify zones affected by drought or pests, delivering actionable data for conservation decisions. High-resolution images allowed Kun-Yuan Lee, a Conservation Forester GIS specialist at NFS, to streamline workflows by automating vegetation analysis and capturing updated canopy maps in real time. This enhanced monitoring capability was instrumental in enabling the NFS team to conduct thorough health assessments, producing quicker and more reliable insights for stakeholders, including local landowners, community councils, and federal grant programs.
Although some NAIP images were outdated, EOSDA LandViewer’s continuous updates provided recent images for most of the Nebraska region, enabling the NFS to monitor real-time forest conditions and detect environmental threats early. These improvements reduced the time and effort needed to assess forest health manually and allowed the NFS to take proactive measures in forest management and fire prevention.
With EOSDA LandViewer, Kun-Yuan and his team were able to substitute missing temporal images from NAIP with photos from other satellites, such as Sentinel-2. Source: Kun-Yuan Lee
Through EOSDA LandViewer, NFS not only increased operational efficiency but also set a foundation for long-term sustainable forest management. This case exemplifies how satellite technology can empower conservation teams with timely, high-resolution insights, helping them make data-driven decisions that protect Nebraska’s forests and ensure their resilience against climate challenges.
EOSDA Crop Monitoring: Reducing Costs, Improving Yields
EOSDA Crop Monitoring, another EOSDA’s standout tool, brings together satellite imagery, crop health metrics, and weather data into an easy-to-navigate platform. This tool’s core strength is its ability to spot early signs of crop stress — whether from cold, drought, pests, disease, or weeds — allowing users to respond swiftly and make cost-effective decisions that drive up yields and save valuable resources.
Productivity Map
To showcase quantifiable benefits the platform can provide, it’s best to dive into one of its successful implementation stories.
Agribest Technologies, a pioneering Mexican agro-biotech company, faced a significant challenge: the results of its soil restoration and fertilizer products often differed between laboratory settings and real-field applications. Due to factors like moisture variability, soil quality differences, and crop characteristics, Agribest needed more accurate, data-driven insights to show clients the actual field performance of its products.
To tackle this, Agribest turned to EOSDA Crop Monitoring. By using indices such as NDVI and ReCl, alongside features like multilayer maps and historical weather data, EOSDA enabled Agribest to measure and visualize the impact of its products on soil and crop health. For example, in one instance with a 32-hectare tomato field, EOSDA’s analysis showed that only six hectares needed treatment, saving Agribest’s clients up to 80% in fertilizer costs and minimizing environmental impact by reducing the use of chemicals like Glyphosate and Methyl parathion.
EOSDA Crop Monitoring’s insights also improved disease detection. When Ralstonia was identified in banana trees using NDVI data, Agribest quickly intervened, halting the disease and protecting the yield. In addition, the platform’s seven-year historical weather and soil data allowed Agribest to predict seasonal needs and advise clients accordingly. Agribest’s shift to EOSDA’s satellite monitoring cut down the need for on-site visits, streamlining operations and enabling engineers to monitor large areas remotely. This led to a 25% boost in market penetration and increased product credibility by 90%, reflected in higher sales as clients gained trust through visible results.
Agribest’s value has grown by 30% annually since integrating EOSDA Crop Monitoring, fueling its expansion across Mexico.
Autor:
Vasyl Cherlinka is a Doctor of Biosciences specializing in pedology (soil science), with 30 years of experience in the field. With a degree in agrochemistry, agronomy and soil science, Dr. Cherlinka has been advising on these issues private sector for many years.