Terms

Some of the terms as they are used by the application

Absolute color scale

uses a fixed minimum and maximum value that has been predefined for each data product for the the left- and rightmost colors of the scale

Relative color scale

uses the lowest and highest pixel value of the data product in the field at the selected period for the the left- and rightmost colors of the scale

Benchmark

a standard against which a field's data product performance can be compared. The average data product value of all fields with the same crop in the same week is a common benchmark.

Data product

a quality of a field that is calculated by a model, based on satellite data. For more information see this page

Field

an area of land. It has one or more field geometries. It goes through one or more growing seasons.

Field notes

rich text comments and pictures that can be added to a field

Field properties

information about a field that can be freely changed

Field shape

(= geometry) the shape of a field at some period in time. A field can have multiple geometries. A geometry consists of 1 or more polygons.

Growing season

(= coverage) a period of time in which a certain crop grows on a field

Pixel

a squared piece of a raster that represents an area of 10x10m or 20x20m

Raster

an image of a field composed of pixels