Aerial imagery is quickly becoming one of the most dynamic tools you and your agronomist can use to better understand what's happening in your field. Aerial imagery through Servi-Tech helps spot long-term field trends like compaction problems and short-term conditions like application errors.

1. Servi-Tech Aerial Imagery
Product Description and Annotated Examples 2016

2. Imagery Products
Native (true color) image
• Similar to a Google Earth
image, but higher resolution
and very up to date.

3. Imagery Products
Native (true color) image
• Similar to a Google Earth
image, but higher resolution
and very up to date.

4. Imagery Products
Advanced Difference
Vegetative Index (ADVI)
• Serves the same purpose as
NDVI.
• Colors are based how green
(or stressed) the crop is.

5. Imagery Products
Advanced Difference
Vegetative Index (ADVI)
• Serves the same purpose as
NDVI.
• Colors are based how green
(or stressed) the crop is.

6. Imagery Products
Thermal
• Healthy plants are cooler
(because there is more
transpiration.)
• Stressed plants are warmer
(because there is less
transpiration.)

7. Imagery Products
Thermal
• Healthy plants are cooler
(because there is more
transpiration.)
• Stressed plants are warmer
(because there is less
transpiration.)

8. Imagery Products
Bare Ground Thermal
• Moist ground is cooler.
• Dry ground is warmer.
This map can be used for:
• Moisture probe placement
• Planting prescriptions
• Soil sampling zones
• Tile drain placement

9. Imagery Products
Bare Ground Thermal
• Moist ground is cooler.
• Dry ground is warmer.
This map can be used for:
• Moisture probe placement
• Planting prescriptions
• Soil sampling zones
• Tile drain placement

10. What can I learn from Aerial Imagery?
*May be visible only after the damage is done.
Still better than not knowing!
Long-term field trends
• Soil properties
• Compaction problems
• Land use history
Short-term conditions or events
• Irrigation problems or inconsistencies
• Nutrient deficiencies
• Application errors
• Weather damage
• Insects*
• Disease*

11. More Examples

12. Good placement for a
moisture probe.
Greatly reduce planting
population and fertilizer
use due to water losses.
Drier soil not visible
without thermal.
Bare Ground Thermal

13. Good placement for a
moisture probe.
Very dry ridge!
Consider a drought-
resistant hybrid here.
This corner is disked
and ridged for pipe.
Bare Ground Thermal

14. Soil variability caused by
field levelling decades ago.
Wet area. Consider
drainage solutions?
Dry area.
Bare Ground Thermal

15. Native (true color) Image
Identify mechanical problems:
This pivot isn’t supposed to bend
like that!

16. Native (true color) Image
Identify mechanical problems:
The purge valve has been left open
on the end of this pivot.

17. ADVI Image
This 80 was sprayed when
the soil was dry enough. This 80 was sprayed when
the soil was too wet!
The yield loss from this error
can’t be identified from a yield
monitor that is averaging 8
rows at a time!

18. In-Season Thermal
Moisture stress ahead of the pivot.
Moisture stress in the
non-irrigated corner.

19. In-Season Thermal
Moisture stress varies greatly
in this field due to soil type
and topography.
This information can be used
to better manage irrigation.

20. ADVI Image
Corn hybrid test plots show
varying health (greenness.)
Early-planted corn was more
susceptible to spider mites moving
in from the edge of the field.
Few spider mites moving into the
later-planted corn.

21. Drought-resistant
hybrid test strips.
ADVI Image
Direction of tillage is still
visible in mature crop.

22. Easy to Navigate Website and IOS app
SWIPE
Select
image

23. • Compare imagery side-by-side.
• Export data in many different
formats.
• View your position in the field in
real-time.
• Create ready-to-download
prescription files on the website.
Easy to Navigate Website and IOS app

24. Ordering Information
• Confirm that your Servi-Tech representative created a
shapefile for the correct field.
• Go through the contract process with your Servi-Tech
representative.
• March 11th is the deadline to guarantee the first flights
are not missed.
• One-time in-season flights may be available on a limited
basis, but at a higher per-flight cost.

25. Ordering Information
• For Pricing:
– Austin Bontrager
• Agronomic Technology Support Specialist
• 234-567-9182
• austin.bontrager@servitech.com
• stepspro.com