Sentinel Ag

Sentinel Ag's platform acquires satellite imagery and agronomic data, analyzes it automatically, and provides nitrogen decision support; it determines crop potential dynamically and works without yield goals, soil samples, or in-season sampling. A team originally collaborated with cooperating corn growers to develop and test a system using field imagery to inform nitrogen management decisions, producing software called N-Time with promising on-farm validation results. The company started in fertigation and extended its technology to nitrogen management in all production systems.

The platform acquires satellite imagery and other agronomic data, analyzes it automatically, and provides decision support tools. Sentinel determines the crop's potential dynamically without a yield goal, and in-season soil or tissue sampling is unnecessary because imagery isolates nitrogen impact on crop performance. Its methodology uses imagery to stay a week ahead of stress in the crop, and agronomists and farmers have deployed Sentinel to enhance nitrogen management in their operations.