How we deliver
The IDGeo Platform, drone processing and custom solutions
The IDGeo Platform brings the layers, the people and the field work together. It starts with the Canadian field, pivot and water layers already loaded, so your team opens a working map instead of an empty one.
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IDGeo Platform
Scoped per projectWeb platform
- Fields, farms and sub-basins on one map, with their history season by season.
- Import your own vector and raster layers, and drone imagery.
- Users and teams, with control over who sees what.
- Field visits planned and followed from the office.
Field app, iOS and Android
- Georeferenced points, with a route to each point.
- Photos and custom forms, filled in on the spot.
- Visit plans and messages in one place.
- Works without cell coverage and syncs when you are back online.
Reports and integration
- Indicators and dashboards that update on their own.
- Custom reports with filters, exported in the formats you use.
- An API to feed your own systems.
- Your data stays under a written agreement.
Drone imagery processing
Send us your drone flights, or those of a certified operator, and get back layers you can use in the platform. Drone and satellite sit on the same field layers, so a field seen from a few metres up and from space can be read side by side.
IDGeo Inc. does not fly. Drone operators are responsible for pilot certification, special flight operations certificates where required, and permission from landowners. Accuracy depends on ground control and is stated in each report.
Custom solutions
A method and a delivery built around your decision.
- Software and dashboards built around your decision.
- Artificial-intelligence analysis of your data.
- Integration with your own systems through an API.
Technology and data
Built on open Earth-observation data and research
IDGeo works with the data and the tools that space agencies and research groups around the world use, and turns them into answers for Canadian land.
Open data and sensors (outer ring)
- Sentinel-1 radar
- Sentinel-2 optical
- Landsat thermal
- RADARSAT Constellation
- Drones and high-res imagery
- ERA5-Land climate
- AAFC crop maps
- Alberta soil layers
- USask field boundaries
- Water Survey of Canada, Alberta Rivers
- Drought and snow networks
Our technology (middle ring)
- Google Earth Engine
- QGIS and PostGIS
- Python geospatial
- Random forests, gradient boosting
- Time-series models
- Optical, thermal, radar fusion
- Radar (SAR) processing
- Drone photogrammetry
- Cloud APIs
- Web maps and reports
- Quality checks
The answers (centre)
- Irrigation
- Crops and pasture
- Water and drought
- Credit and land risk
- Environment
- Confidence rating
From the sky to the decision
Every source feeds the same models, and every model feeds the same answers. Radar is meant to fill the gaps that cloud leaves in optical imagery (a radar-first model is in development), thermal and climate data explain what the crops are living through, and field boundaries and crop maps tie it all to a place on the ground.
- Outer ring: the world's open data and sensors, from space agencies and public services.
- Middle ring: the technology that connects them.
- Centre: the answers that reach districts, farms, lenders, insurers and agencies.
AI and modelling
Our models turn imagery into evidence: what is on the land and what changed.
Classify
Crop type, land cover and irrigation, field by field and season by season.
Count in drone imagery
Plant counts and gaps from drone flights, scoped per project.
Fuse the sensors
Optical, thermal and radar read together. This is the next build, not yet in the Headgate series.
Track in season
Season status on set dates, before the season ends (in development).
Compare
Shows where our map and your records differ, for you to check, once your records are shared.
Say how sure
Every call comes with a confidence rating (calibration under way), so you know which ones to lean on.
Built for Canada: on 115,864 mapped fields in Alberta and six seasons of imagery.
In step with global research
We follow the main international work on Earth observation for agriculture, irrigation and water, from the European Space Agency, NASA, the USGS, Copernicus and the Canadian Space Agency to university research, and we keep a running review of the peer-reviewed literature. What is proven abroad, we test on Canadian land.
Open data, our own models
The world's open satellite archives, combined with models built and tested on Canadian land.
Radar, in development
RADARSAT Constellation (2025 to 2026) and Sentinel-1 are processed over the basin from public archives. The radar model is still being built.
A small team, fast answers
A specialized team that goes from data to a working answer quickly, and grows with the project.