Objectives of the Product

Key Features:

• Daily monitoring: receive daily updates on crop conditions, with high-resolution images and data.
• Health analysis: utilise NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) and other spectral indices to assess plant health and detect stress early. It includes a proprietary algorithm to compare different crop vintages.
• Growth tracking: monitor growth stages based on continuous data collection and analysis.
• Weather impact assessment: understand the impact of weather events on crops with historical and real-time weather data integration.
• Damage assessment: provide accurate and timely damage assessments to support insurance claims, using satellite imagery and advanced analytics to quantify the extent of crop damage.
• Enhanced risk knowledge: historical satellite time-series to assess risk level associated to every single crops.
• Customised reporting: get tailored reports that meet the specific needs of growers and insurance companies, with actionable insights and recommendations.

---

Customers and their Needs

As the agriculture industry shifts towards precision farming, the demand for accurate and timely data is increasing. In addition, governments are pushing towards precision farming techniques by providing funds to invest in new technologies.

Crop insurance companies are looking for innovative solutions to enhance their services and reduce risks, making Saturnalia a perfect fit.

Saturnalia’s daily satellite crop monitoring service addresses critical needs in the agriculture and insurance sectors, offering a sophisticated, reliable, and user-friendly solution. By providing near real-time data and actionable insights, we empower growers to optimise their operations and insurers to manage risks effectively, driving overall productivity and sustainability in agriculture.

Saturnalia serves two core markets: agricultural producers and agricultural insurance companies. Producers use our service to optimise daily operations such as irrigation, fertilisation, and crop health monitoring. Insurance companies benefit from our technology to better estimate risks, manage claims, reduce fraud, and assess damages from natural disasters. The potential for transformation in these traditionally conservative industries is immense.

---

Target customers/users’ countries

Farmers targeted so far are located all around the world. To this day, more than 140 pilot cases have been completed across Italy, France, Austria, Germany, Portugal, Australia, US, South Africa and Argentina.  The market for crop insurance companies is again global, with main contacts in Italy and Germany.

---

Product description

Saturnalia aims to enhance agricultural productivity and resilience, thereby improving lives through better resource management and crop protection.

A various set of heterogeneous data sources is organised and harmonised to offer easy access. Daily images and weather data are automatically ingested and processed every day.

Growers can benefit from all these datasets by using a web platform, available for all devices. Insurance companies may leverage results via API or via a web platform.

---

Added value

Saturnalia’s daily satellite crop monitoring service addresses critical needs in the agriculture and insurance sectors, offering a sophisticated, reliable, and user-friendly solution. By providing near real-time data and actionable insights, we empower growers to optimise their operations and insurers to manage risks effectively, driving overall productivity and sustainability in agriculture. Many competitors in this space often rely on lower resolution data and do not prioritise the interaction with the final users. On the other hand, for insurance companies specific damage models will allow them to save time of loss adjusters operations in the field.

---

Current Status

This activity is completed. The current service automatically ingests daily satellite data and distributes them via a simple web interface. A mobile app is also available on App Store and Play Store. It allows to run comparisons on the different datasets, to compare with what users might see with their own eyes and also to collect geolocated reports in the field to keep track of what is happening.

Insurance companies can benefit of our monitoring services as well as models to detect anomalies. More than 140 case studies have been completed across Italy, France, Austria, Germany, Portugal, Australia, US, South Africa and Argentina. Several crops have been tested, such as grapes, tomatoes, rice, corn, artichokes, apples, etc.