See water-stress signals before your next field visit
A satellite signal can help you decide where to inspect, not prescribe an irrigation amount. Mothmr displays plant, soil and water observations with image dates and usable coverage, alongside weather and connected sensors. Cloud, soil and crop conditions affect interpretation.
How it works
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Find the parcel
Map your fields so each reading is limited to its own boundary and tracked through time.
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Compare evidence, not a single score
Review water-related changes alongside vegetation, surface-temperature context, hourly weather and sensor readings when connected.
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Inspect and document
Assign a field check, record observations and verify any completed follow-up work; do not treat remote sensing as a direct soil-moisture measurement.
What it covers
Satellite history, parcel by parcel
Every satellite pass over your field is recorded with its acquisition date and how much of the field it actually covered; a pass the cloud hid stays on the record as exactly that. Choose a year, a day and a pass to see the field in true colour with its boundary drawn on, filter the archive by period, coverage or cloud, and open any pass for its time, cloud figures, resolution and plant-reading statistics.
Crop monitoring over time
Dated series for plant vigour, canopy moisture and a chlorophyll-sensitive reading, each with its latest value, the change since a comparable earlier pass and a recent baseline. A sharp drop is told apart from a decline that persists over successive passes, you choose the window, and the measurements behind every comparison — coverage and usable pixels included — are one click away. A change is a reason to visit, not a diagnosis.
Heat that shows thirst
Landsat 8 and 9 measure the surface temperature of every field. Mothmr compares the field with the open ground around it: a crop with water runs cooler, and a field that has warmed to match its surroundings is worth checking. Readings arrive about every eight days and suit fields of roughly five hectares and larger.
Weather beside the work
Current conditions, the next twelve hours of rain and cloud, a five-day forecast and the past ten days, all for the field’s own coordinates, charted beside detailed tables that show the observation time and the forecast location. Official warnings are relayed when the provider supplies them, and a provider we cannot reach is shown as unreachable rather than as no warnings.
Field sensors
Where a device is connected to a parcel: soil water content and matric potential, soil temperature and electrical conductivity; air temperature, humidity, dew point, leaf wetness, pressure, rain, wind, gusts and solar radiation; water flow, volume, line pressure and valve or pump state; and battery. Each reading shows its units, depth, measurement and receipt times, freshness and quality flags. Read-only: no device is ever sent a command.
Sensors, satellite and work, read together
With a probe connected and its reference range reviewed, prompts can join the signals: low soil water beside a falling canopy-moisture trend, with heat when it applies; low flow or pressure after a recorded irrigation; plants declining although the probe shows water; a planned irrigation after recorded rain. Device faults are kept apart from field concerns, and each prompt sends someone to look — it does not diagnose a pipe or prescribe water.
Advice with its evidence
Daily and seasonal advice for the crop and the growth stage you have recorded, shown beside the readings and thresholds it was drawn from. These are rules, not a language model: the same inputs always produce the same answer, and it guides an inspection rather than replacing it.
What to keep in mind
Satellite observations
Sentinel-2, every few days, free and public. Cloud hides the ground, so some passes produce no usable reading — every reading is shown with its own acquisition date and the share of the field it covered.
Weather
Point estimates for a field's location, not a measurement of variation within it. Official warnings are relayed when the provider supplies them, and an unreachable provider is shown as unreachable rather than as no warnings.
Questions
A useful tool should be clear about what it can do, and where your judgement still matters.
Are satellite observations live?
No. The satellite passes every few days, and clouds can hide the ground. Each reading shows its acquisition date and usable coverage. When a pass is obscured, the last usable reading remains dated and visible. Sentinel-1 radar is not stopped by cloud, so a cloudy week still has a moisture reading.
Does Mothmr diagnose pests or disease?
No. A falling reading, a zone lower than the rest of the field or a low probe value is a reason to inspect, shown with the dates and figures behind it. Mothmr does not diagnose pests or disease, prescribe a product or a dose, or calculate an irrigation amount — the person in the field decides.
How local is the weather information?
Weather is a point estimate for the field’s coordinates, not a measurement within every part of it. Some layers and official alerts need a configured provider. Unavailable information is marked as unavailable.
See it on your own fields
Tell us about your farm and the work you want to coordinate, and we will plan a demonstration around your fields and roles.
Request a demo