Case Study: CropSafe accelerates crop monitoring and satellite data workflows with SkyWatch EarthCache

How a Precision Agriculture Application Uses SkyWatch EarthCache

CropSafe, a mobile app for precision agriculture founded in Belfast, helps farmers monitor crop growth using satellite imagery, sensor data, and machine learning. As the company expanded beyond Ireland and the UK into North America, it needed a faster, easier way to access and manage satellite data from multiple sources, including both open imagery and high-resolution commercial data.

By using SkyWatch EarthCache, CropSafe was able to pull imagery from a single API endpoint, standardize multiple datasets, and add automated satellite tasking and archive preview for high-resolution data. SkyWatch helped CropSafe speed up its processes significantly, with the CEO reporting a 10x productivity increase after moving away from manual imagery ordering, while also eliminating large minimum-order constraints that had previously made satellite data harder to use.

CropSafe

John McElhone

CEO and co-founder