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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 →

A new “Options” Menu button has been added to the location filter dropdown on most Topics, replacing the Hide L2/L3 toggle, which have now been moved into the Options menu dropdown.  The Selected Location Map action has also been moved … Continue reading →

GDA has added specially filtered crop-and-location-specific NDVI data to the Seasonal Analysis topic along with NDVI forecasts for the remainder of the current year.  Initially, the locations and crops that this data is provided for is as follows: Argentina L3 … Continue reading →

The CropSignal Tutorial PDF file has been updated to reflect the recent feature changes to CropSignal (especially Pivot Widgets and their controls).  You can download the PDF under the Help link.

The Monthly Crop Stats topic is now available.  It is similar to the Annual Crop Stats topic except it provides statistics that are monthly.  Such crops include oil palm, tea, cocoa, and coffee and available sources include Stat Canada, Indonesia … Continue reading →

New statistics from the State Statistics Service of Ukraine are now available in the Annual Crop Stats topic!

When generating widgets within any topic, new widgets are prepended to any existing widgets in the topics results windows.  Previously, any existing widgets were deleted and replaced with the new ones.  You can still delete one or all of the … Continue reading →

In the weather topic, you can now see crop-specific growing degree day (GDD) calculations for US States, Districts and Counties for some major crops.  There is a new crop dropdown where any crops that have this data available for it.  … Continue reading →