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SpotGuard: Deep Intelligence for a Resilient Planet 

Predicting Soil Water Index for Global Agricultural Resilience 

The Challenge: Disaster Monitoring (The "Hidden" Drought Crisis)

Effective disaster monitoring in agriculture is incredibly difficult because the most devastating threats often happen out of sight.

• Massive Economic Impact: Annually, European farmers lose around 28 billion dollars from drought.

• The Visual Lag: By the time a farmer sees crop stress—such as wilting and yellowing—the yield loss is already irreversible. The damage is done before the warning arrives.

• Surface Blindness: Standard satellite indices miss the critical root zone entirely.

Our Solution: Remote Root-Zone Intelligence 

SpotGuard delivers deep monitoring with a completely hardware-free solution. Because there are no physical probes to install, calibrate, or maintain, there is zero hardware investment required, and it is operational from day one.

How We Do It:

• TerraMind ViT Engine: The platform is powered by TerraMind, a custom-tuned Vision Transformer architecture that is purpose-built for agricultural earth observation.

• Multi-Layered Data: SpotGuard utilizes data from Sentinel-1, Sentinel-2, and COP-DEM elevation to generate its models.

• Actionable Financial Insights: We calculate the precise intersection area where detected risk events overlap with field boundaries. This allows farmers to budget irrigation costs down to the euro for a 3, 7, or 10-day horizon.

• Risk Mitigation: By identifying the specific fraction of yield at risk, users can make data-driven decisions. Preventing even one single day of root-stress can preserve 10-15% of the total harvest value.

See Further. Act Smarter. 

Team member contributions: 

• Tasadan Luca: Data Science & Business
• Macra Alexandru: Backend Engineer & Research
• Manu Ioan Daniel: Frontend Engineer & Business 
• Lirca Mihai: Frontend Engineer & Research

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