Intelescope

Empowering Agro Business

Through High-Resolution Aerial Remote Sensing
for Precision Agriculture

Intelescope
 Recognizing & classifying high resolution remotely acquired image data is the core technology of
Intelescope. Precision agriculture, mining and urban planning are potential applications

Core Technology & Target Opportunity

Intelescope blends expertise Precision

in Remote Sensing, Image Agriculture

Recognition & Agronomy to

improve agricultural yield.
Mining &
Military Target
Remote sensing and image Natural Acquisition
Resources Remote
recognition technology have
Sensing
wide applicability above and Image
beyond agriculture. Recognition

Mining applications use

remotely acquired Urban-Planning Robotics /
hyperspectral images. Infrastructure Computer
Traffic Detection Vision

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Rich Data in Geographical Information Systems

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 Briefcase deployable Mapping

Next Phase R&D

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Agenda

Land Parcel Due Diligence, Production Auditing & Land Use

Forestry

Field Crops

Urban Applications, Counting Cows & Misc

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Demonstration of Due Diligence Abilities
Following sequence of images demonstrate operational resolution & object recognition capabilities.

Isolation of
parcel
Cropped Parcel – Determine Area of Interest

• Potential land parcel acquisitions

can be scrutinized through aerial
analysis.
• Due diligence process is simplified
for very large parcels in difficult to
access areas
• Analysis deliverables:
• Precise (±25cm) geo-
referenced orthophoto map
• Precise gradient information
for each pixel (GSD – 15cm X
15cm)
• Detection of rocks and debris
inhibiting soil conditions
• Acidity & fertilization map
(correlated with soil samples)
• Soil thickness & water
retention ability
Area of interest @ 480cm / pixel
@ 240cm / pixel
@ 120cm / pixel
@ 60cm / pixel
@ 30cm / pixel
High resolution multispectral aerial images facilitate the due diligence process.

High Resolution Object Detection for Land Parcel Due Diligence

15cm/Pixel

3.22 m

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Land Use: Classification & Auditing

Interpreted Geo-
Referenced Image

Patria Soragna (near Orthophoto, GSD 25cm)

Rectified Geo-Referenced Mosaic of
Aerial Photographs in red, green & NIR
bands.

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Each plot type is classified through geometric & radiometric matching .The base image from which
this collage is composed was taken in NIR, Red and Green bands.

Land Classification w/ Legend

Legend
Border delineation

Farmed areas
Full vegetation cover

Farmed areas
partial vegetation cover

Water

Constructions

Woodland / Trees

Pasture

Vines

Tree cultivation

Unused

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This image is part of a project for Italian Agriculture Ministry on whether subsidies were
appropriately used to seed & expand vineyards

Land Use Audit: Automatic Detection of Vineyards

Analysis Details
Automatic detection of
rows and breaks in
vineyards. (Image is in
RGB + CIR)

Image interpreted and

geo-referenced. Relevant
aspects (such as length
of rows, breaks in rows,
seeded area) are stored
in geographic
information database.
Thus
changes overtime can be
tracked automatically.

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Agenda

Land Parcel Due Diligence, Production Auditing & Land Use

Forestry

Field Crops

Urban Applications, Counting Cows & Misc

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Each tree in field is counted (labeled with precise GPS location). The biomass of plantation is
measured. This can be used to obtain TER Carbon Credits.

Automatic Tree Recognition & Counting for Carbon Credits

Tree story

Height Anomaly
ID: 47.521990 W
23.593409 S
Euc3301-21/06/06 +
Slope: 5%
Soil: Terra Rosa

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Forestry: Extracting Data from Aerial Photographs

Tree story

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In this example – gaps in tree planting are automatically classified, and measured

Tree Counting: Object Recognition & Classification

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Location of the Pilot
 Area: 16,000 hectares

Photography Date: 24/07/2008

Areas of interests

Sample of 5
plantations
 Plots names

Plot 15D010_a

15D010_a

15D011_a

15D010_b

15D011_b
15D011_c
Planting Holes Recognition
Tree Counting
RMS Error: ±5%

Each Tree Gets an XY

Coordinate
Sieving Holes according to Size
0-5 m2
Example:
5-10 m2
Ignore holes under 10-15 m2
5 m2 10-20 m2
<20 m2
 Sieving Holes according to
Length-Width Ratio Index
1 - 1.5 LWRI
1.5 - 2 LWRI
2 -3 LWRI

3 - 4 LWRI
< 4 LWRI

Holes

Not Holes
(Row Gaps)
Orthophoto Orthophoto 3D view

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Cro

Height cross section

ti on
s ec Taller trees Road Smaller trees
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4m
Height

3m

2m

1m

0m
10m 20m 30m 40m 50m

Distance
Tree height variability

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Tree height variability

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Orthophoto

Sample
plot
Plot zoom in
Individual tree mapping

Total: 23,568 trees

Individual tree mapping

Geo-location is assigned to
each tree

3.5m
m Stand extraction
2.5

4m
 Surface elevation model

High

Low
 Terrain elevation model

High

Low
Plot diagonal view
 Surface elevation model

High

Low
 Terrain elevation model

High

Low
 Tree height extraction

Surface
Tree Height

Terrain
 Tree height model

5m

3m
 Individual tree height

5m

3m
Tree height layer + Tree count
 Individual tree height 3D

5m

3m
 Plot inventory report

Tree X Y Tree height Actual stand

ID coordinate coordinate (m) (trees/ha)
1 7988368 427345 3.50 1050
2 7988369 427345 3.25 1050
3 7988369 427348 4.00 1000
4 7988372 427348 4.50 950
5 7988372 427351 4.25 950
6 7988374 427351 4.50 950
7 7988374 427354 4.75 800
8 7988376 427354 5.00 800
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Vegetative intensity in Soybean and Cotton (using the spectral
index). Exposure of fertilization defects, Brazil.

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RTS / ATR (total recovered sugars) can be accurately measured. This information can be used to
hedge production. Sugar Cane financers can audit their clients with this information.

Measuring the Biomass and Sugar Cane ATR (RTS)

Biomass Crop
Height (2m)
Volume

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Specific Localization of Weeds facilitates less use of herbicides – saving costs and minimizing
pollution. Eliminating weeds improves agricultural yields.

Weed Detection Through Spectral Analysis

OrthoPhoto RGB+CIR Weed localization with GPS coordinates

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Thermal imaging (middle image) can accurately pinpoint cows on a field. Red Xs (right most
image) denote the location of each detected cow

Object Detection: Counting Cows

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