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In order to make CropSignal more accessible to new users, we have added a new default Snapshot Topic that only requires a user to select one crop type and one location (World or Country) and can quickly view National or … Continue reading →

New reports from Rural Bank and Australia Oilseeds Federation are available in the Reports topic.

We have added Min/Max versions of the Area, Yield, and Production variables in the Annual Crop Stats Topic.  This was implemented to support sources (namely Brazil’s CONAB, and GDA forecasts) which provide upper and lower limits to their area and … Continue reading →

You can now add a second variable to the label on every location on a map.  For example, you can set the main map variable (classifier and label) as the percent change from the 5 YR Avg, but also include … Continue reading →

New week modes that label explicit dates have been added to the Seasonal Analysis topic.  Previously, the data were listed with just week numbers (with optional years), but now an approximated date for the end of the week (e.g. ‘Apr … Continue reading →

A new source of reports has been added to the CropSignal inventory, available within the Reports topic.  The source is Pakistan Agriculture Research (listed as PAR) which releases reports for Pakistan for Cotton, Palm Oil, Cotton, Wheat, and Dairy.

Within the Seasonal Analysis Topic, GDA has added new derived variables to help analyze the NDVI time-series for a particular administrative unit location and crop type.  These frequency variables show the percentage of pixels for a given MODIS NDVI composite … Continue reading →

Previously, the topic filters would only allow you to select years and/or variables for which data was available in the CropSignal database – making it difficult to configure widgets to also include future years/months/variables for when that data inevitably becomes … Continue reading →

A new feature has been added for pivot charts – you can now override the default series order and customize it.  This can be useful when showing area/line charts where series are drawn ‘on top’ of one another.  You can … Continue reading →

Within the Seasonal Analysis Topic, GDA has added new derived variables for GDA-processed crop-specific NDVI to compare a given year with the prior year, 5 Yr Avg or 10 Yr Avg.  These variables are Timeshift and Delta.  Timeshift calculates the … Continue reading →