Food Security Systems — Agriculture, Food Security & Rural Land Systems — Satellize

3.2Subsection · 6 applications

Food Security Systems

Women farmers inspecting maize crops in a rural African field during harvest season — Farmers planting rice seedlings in flooded fields now receive satellite warnings before such harvests face catastrophic, preventable failure.

Satellite Early Warning for Crop Failure

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Earth Observation
Multispectral sensors measure NDVI crop health
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Downlink
Daily imagery relayed to regional ground stations
3
Analytics Platform
Yield forecasts and drought stress maps generated
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Food Security Alert
NGOs and governments receive 6-week harvest warnings

Satellite NDVI data flows from orbit to analysts, delivering early harvest failure warnings to relief organisations in time to act.

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Agricultural Risk Intelligence

Subsection 3.2 — Agriculture, Food Security & Rural Land Systems

Food Security Systems

6 applications.

Applications

3.2.1 National Food Security Monitoring — Continuous satellite-based surveillance of crop condition, soil moisture, drought extent and harvest outlook across a nation's entire agricultural footprint.
3.2.2 Crop Yield Forecasting — Using multi-spectral and SAR satellite time-series to generate sub-national crop yield estimates weeks before harvest, independent of ground-survey networks.
3.2.3 Agricultural Production Shock Detection — Detecting sudden, large-scale disruptions to crop production—drought, flood, pest outbreak, frost—before they cascade into food-price crises or humanitarian emergencies.
3.2.4 Agricultural Supply Intelligence — Tracking the full agricultural supply chain from field to port using satellite imagery, RF monitoring and vessel tracking to give governments independent commodity flow intelligence.
3.2.5 Food Import Dependency Analysis — Quantifying a nation's structural reliance on food imports by fusing satellite-derived crop production estimates with trade flow and port activity intelligence.
3.2.6 Staple Crop Monitoring — Continuously tracking the growth, health and area of staple crops—wheat, rice, maize, cassava—from seedling emergence through harvest using multispectral and SAR satellite data.