Questions about building management zones with TerraZoner

Zones and prescriptions export as a standard zipped shapefile, the format farm and mapping software commonly reads. Import steps vary, so the trial is the way to test it on your own equipment.

You also get a PDF report, a KML and a GeoTIFF. Prescriptions cover up to six products, and you type the rates. TerraZoner recommends none.

You pick the seasons and can see every one that went in. In Performance Zones, each zone then shows its own record against the field average.

The terrain can also pull apart ground that imagery alone often lumps together, such as a wet low and a dry knoll. From there the zones go on to a rate map, and it’s all one flat yearly price.

In your browser while you work, and in the files you save. TerraZoner doesn’t store them and there is no shared field library, so save a project backup before you close the browser. It reopens the whole field later.

If you stop paying, access ends with the membership. Backups are files you keep, and they reopen in TerraZoner if you come back. Exported zones and prescriptions are ordinary files that keep working.

Yes. Each year is compared with its own field average, so a different crop stays in. Leave out only a year where something went wrong. For a year with two or more crops in the field, tick “Adjust for mixed crops” where crop maps cover the field. It stays off until you do.

Check them on a field you know, then against soil tests or yield if you have them. The zones show how the field performed. The why, and the final call, stay with you. One limit: the satellite can't tell a crop from weeds, so a slough full of cattails or a weedy headland can read as the best ground in the field. The boundary editor lets you cut it out.

Prices are in Canadian dollars in Canada and in US dollars everywhere else, and you can change the currency at checkout. A membership renews in the currency it was bought in. Tax is added where it applies. The membership renews automatically each year unless cancelled before the renewal date.

One flat yearly price depending on seats: C$1,500 to C$4,500. See Pricing.

Request a free trial and we'll send you a link for 7 days of TerraZoner. If you'd like a walkthrough first, we can do that on Google Meet.

Ask within 30 days of your first membership payment and we refund it in full, no reason needed. Renewals aren't refunded.

If LiDAR-detail terrain is the reason you’re buying, check the coverage map first.

As many as the work calls for. Each boundary can be up to 1,500 acres. Licensing says who can share a login.

You do, with full commercial rights to use, distribute or sell the zones, maps, prescriptions and reports on any basis.

Keep the imagery credit when sharing or selling outputs. TerraZoner credits Copernicus with the imagery years and adds Planet Insights Platform for imagery processed through Planet. Copy the applicable credit from the app or PDF report.

Your name, email and login, your membership and payment records, and anything you send us through a form or a support message. Passwords are encrypted and card numbers stay with Stripe. Boundaries, projects and zone maps stay in the browser and in the files you export. The Privacy policy says how long each is kept.

Only with the services that help run TerraZoner, such as hosting, analytics, the website forms and Stripe for payment, across GIS4AG products for sign-in, and where the law requires it. A satellite imagery request passes the field’s area to the imagery provider. We don’t sell personal information or share it for marketing. The Privacy policy has the full list.

Anyone who makes decisions about fields, your own or a client’s. You don’t need a GIS background, and the rates and other decisions stay yours.

A membership and a field boundary. TerraZoner runs in a current browser such as Chrome, Edge or Firefox on a laptop or desktop, so there's nothing to install, and the satellite imagery is included.

KML, KMZ, or a zipped shapefile (.shp, .shx, .dbf and .prj together), one field per file. A boundary exported from farm software in one of these formats will usually load. No file? Draw it on the map. The boundary editor can cut a hole, clip an edge or extend a line.

The Academy has video lessons, and two manuals walk through the software.

No, it's included with every membership, on the same login. Search scenes by date range and cloud limit, classify a scene into zones, or run a damage estimate. See In-Season.

Tag a clear scene on each side of the event. Every acre the scenes can see gets a severity call, and ground hidden by cloud is marked “not assessable”. The PDF report shows the damage map and the acres by severity.

The acres are an estimate built from satellite imagery. The adjuster makes the call, no insurer is bound by the numbers, and TerraZoner carries no liability if the field count comes back different. Treat it as documentation that supports the conversation, not a replacement for a field inspection.

Composite Zones lets you pick the seasons, the method and the number of zones. Performance Zones needs four or more usable seasons, and the data picks the zones unless you set a number from 2 to 10. Terrain refinement splits the lowest-performing zone into wetter and drier ground. Landscape Response sets position on the land against performance. Survey-based zones use uploaded EC, yield or pH data. The Features page walks through the choice.

Yes. Composite Zones and In-Season can use NDVI or EVI2, and Performance Zones uses EVI2, the default. The Features page says why.

Sentinel-2 at 10 m pixels from Copernicus, with seasons back to 2016 and fewer on some fields. Each season's value is the greenest look across the growing season. Cloud and snow read low, so they rarely set it, and Performance Zones checks each spot had enough clear days.

LiDAR where it covers the field, in the US (USGS 3DEP) and Canada (NRCan HRDEM, LidarBC), and Copernicus 30 m satellite elevation everywhere else. Data & Coverage says what each can show, so you can judge it for your fields.