TerraZoner Academy Twenty short videos, open to everyone
Short video lessons on building management zones.
The videos follow each step from the field boundary to the rate map. They show what the software is doing and where a method has its limits. There is nothing to register for.
No GIS background needed.
Twenty short videos, five tracks
Each video covers one job. Watch them in order, or jump to the one you need.
1 · Getting Started
Field boundary requirements
Everything inside the boundary gets zoned, so it should hold the ground you want zones for.
2 · Getting Started
The first imagery fetch
“TerraZoner fetches every season it can see this field in. The ones it skips are the ones it could not see clearly, and it tells you.”
3 · Getting Started
EVI2 and NDVI: what the map is made of
“Both indexes measure the same thing. EVI2 keeps telling the strong ground apart when NDVI has stopped, so EVI2 is the default.”
4 · Workflows
Choosing the seasons that make good zones
You choose which seasons go in. Keep the years with a different crop, and leave out a year only if something went wrong in it.
5 · Workflows
Composite Zones: create and edit
“You chose the zone count, so the map draws that many zones whether the field has that much variation or not.”
6 · Workflows
Refine Composite Zones by terrain
A low zone can be low because it is too wet or because it is too dry. The terrain can separate the two.
7 · Workflows
Performance Zones
Leave the count to the field's record, or set the number yourself. If the record gives two zones, that is what the field shows.
8 · Workflows
Refine Performance Zones by terrain
The terrain does not change how the ground performed. It can show whether the low ground is wet or dry, which may change what you do about it.
9 · Workflows
Landscape Response Zones
This map suggests a likely cause for each part of the field, as a starting point for your own read.
10 · Outputs
Exporting zones: shapefile, KMZ, GeoTIFF and the PDF
Exports are standard files: zipped shapefile, KMZ, GeoTIFF and PDF. There is no viewer to install.
11 · Outputs
Project backup and restore
A project backup is one file with everything in it, so nothing needs re-downloading. Fields live in your browser, and a backup is how a project moves or stays safe.
12 · Imported data
Elevation from a shapefile where LiDAR is unavailable
Outside LiDAR coverage, elevation points you bring can stand in for satellite elevation, and the terrain is only as good as the points.
13 · Imported data
Weighted Composite Zones from two layers
“This map is your recipe: two layers, your weights. It tells you where the recipe says to look, not how the crop grew.”
14 · Imported data
Matrix zones
A matrix keeps both readings in the zone name. Low and wet is not the same ground as low and dry, and the name shows it.
15 · Outputs
Variable rate prescriptions
The acres sit right beside the rate, so the total is easy to check before ordering.
16 · Outputs
The soil sampling tool (beta)
Sampling by zone can help the lab results explain the map.
17 · In-Season
In-Season: introduction
Zones show how a field has done over the years. In-Season shows the latest clear scene.
18 · In-Season
A variable rate prescription from recent imagery
One scene is one moment in the season, so a prescription built from it speaks only to that moment.
19 · In-Season
Which fields are furthest along
The satellite can show which fields are turning first. A look at the field decides the rest.
20 · In-Season
Damage reports: what they are and how to create one
“This report shows what the satellite saw before and after. It is evidence for a conversation, not the verdict.”
The same videos sit inside the TerraZoner user manual once you are working in the software.