Presentation for the SkyClaim - Fieldview integration showcase by Dr. Cassidy Rankine, co-founder and co-creator of SkyClaim More info at www.skyclaim.io

1. Presents
SkyClaim
Precision Crop Loss Analysis
Turning Imagery to Information
www.skyclaim.io

2. SKYMATICS – who we are
We are remote sensing engineers, geomatics experts, big data
scientists, AI developers, and unmanned technology enthusiasts
Focused on simplifying big data image analysis challenges

3. Why map your field with a drone?
A. Precision Agriculture
> Variable Rate Application maps
B. Crop Scouting / Spot Checking
> Weeds, Disease and Pest management
C. Disaster and Loss Management
> Severe weather, wildlife, machinery failure, etc

4. Using drones after disasters…
Fast and effective to
spot damage areas
from the air….
but challenging to
measure the exact
losses

5. The SkyClaim App by Skymatics
What is SkyClaim?
An online application that
identifies, measures and
reports crop loss areas using
high definition aerial imagery.
Designed to simplify complex &
tedious image analysis tasks to
evaluate crop disturbances
Example SkyClaim Crop Damage Analysis Report

6. Detailed Claims Support

7. SkyClaim uses AI to find damages
In addition to using combinations of vegetation indices
we use advanced object-based image analyses
Enables higher level feature extraction and
crop damage classification accuracy

8. Combine Layers of Image Information
Extracting spatial,
spectral, and
structural plant
information from
layers of image data
significantly improves
our accuracy and sets
us apart from other
image processing
approaches

9. Unproductive areas all look the same using vegetation
index maps - hard to differentiate cause of stress/dieback
Beyond Greenness Indices
RGB

10. Using computer vision to identify non-crop features
Semantic segmentation used to classify all components of the scene

11. Landscape Feature Classification

12. App
Users
Over 1000 drone maps analyzed
(150,000+ acres)
50+ crop types in 39 Countries
across 6 Continents
On Dronedeploy

13. Fire Damage
Ground estimate was 50 acres
Our same day analysis showed 75 acres

14. Wind Storm Damage

15. Wind: Tornado Path 13% of field or 17.5 acres
severely damaged

16. Crop Lodging
Orthomosaic

17. Wildlife Damage: Herbivory

18. Wildlife Damage: Trampling

19. Wildlife Damage: Trampling
AFSC measured 12%
yield loss after harvest,
we estimated ~10%
using our image analysis

20. Hail Damage Assessment
Heavy Hail
Light Hail

21. Flooding

22. Flooding

23. Reviews:
what people are saying
“Having a report with a breakdown of damage,
especially widespread damage, is huge…
“When you are talking about this amount of
money that is going to be paid out or not paid
out, I tell people, ‘if your insurance agent
doesn’t provide you with something like this,
you should be providing it for yourself!’ ”
- Jeremy Jones
Overhead Ag, Illinois

24. Integrating SkyClaim with Climate FieldView
● Phase 1 – Share Field Boundaries – Late August 2018
○ Import your field boundaries from FieldView to SkyClaim to constrain damage analysis
● Phase 2 – Damage Analysis in FieldView – Early 2019
○ Run a SkyClaim Crop Damage Analysis and generate Reports for qualified imagery in your
FieldView account
○
● Phase 3 – Field Data Integration – Mid 2019
○ Leverage Your FieldView Production Data for high accuracy loss assesment

25. Contact Us:
info@skyclaim.io
Cassidy Rankine
crankine@skymatics.com
Presents
SkyClaim
Precision Crop Loss Analysis
Turning Imagery to Information
www.skyclaim.io