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Satellite view of Kenya and the East African rift.

How Mavuno sees the bigger picture.

Mavuno brings together four kinds of information and explains what they mean for the question you are asking. The pictures themselves are free and public. The care taken between the picture and your page is the part that matters.

Sources

What we bring together.

Satellite pictures show physical conditions. Rainfall records show whether a season was normal, wet or dry. Maps show distance, routes and markets. The business tells us what it does and where. Everything below is open and public, apart from what a business chooses to share.

SourceRole in a packAccess
Sentinel-2 satellite imagesFree European satellite pictures that help us see changes in vegetation and land conditions over time.Open data
Landsat 8/9 satellite imagesFree American satellite pictures that let us look further back in time at the same places.Open data
CHIRPS rainfall recordsRainfall estimates by area, used to show how wet or dry a season has been compared with normal.Open data
Sentinel-1 radar (used selectively)Radar sees through cloud. We use it where cloud hides an area for long periods.Open data
Information from the businessSite locations, boundaries, suppliers and routes, shared with permission.Provided by the business

Basemaps on this site are rendered from OpenStreetMap data via CARTO tiles. Map geometry shown in demonstrations is synthetic.

Processing

From a satellite picture to a written observation.

Step 01

Choose the pictures

We pick images that cover the agreed area on the dates that matter to your question.

Step 02

Clear the cloud

Cloud and shadow are removed first. Dates with too little clear view are left out, and we note that we left them out.

Step 03

Measure

We measure conditions across the area you asked about, and across the land around it for comparison.

Step 04

Check

We check the area matches, that we have enough of the season covered, and that nothing looks odd.

Step 05

Write it down

Each observation is saved with its source, date, area, method, confidence and limits.

Step 06

Human review

A person reads the pack and its stated limits before it goes to you.
LivePlanned capability

What works today, and what is planned

We say plainly what exists today and what is still planned. Nothing here is automatic, live or self-learning, because it is not.

  • Today: Evidence Packs prepared by our analysts for a defined place, using the sources above.
  • Planned: repeat observation over time, compared against a dated starting picture.
  • Planned: more sectors beyond the initial agribusiness and cold-chain focus.

Limits we state openly

  • Satellites see through gaps in the cloud. Some places and seasons are poorly covered.
  • Small, mixed or intercropped plots can be too fine to see clearly from space.
  • Rainfall estimates cover an area, so they can differ from a gauge at one exact point.
  • What we see is surface condition. It is not yield, tonnage, quality or ownership.
  • Mavuno makes no automatic decisions and never presents an estimate as an observation.

Have a business question that depends on place?

Tell us the question and the place it concerns. We will say whether Mavuno can add useful evidence to it, and what it would not settle.

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