"The Agroclimate Viewer & Planner App: NDVI only is a free interactive web-based tool designed to help growers and researchers to monitor crop health in the fields. By leveraging Google Earth Engine (GEE), the application provides insights through satellite imagery. Users can draw field boundaries and generate NDVI visualizations to aid in informed agricultural decision-making.

The Agroclimate Viewer & Planner App is a free interactive web-based tool designed to help growers and other users monitor, forecast, and analyze agroclimatic conditions for their croplands. By leveraging Google Earth Engine (GEE), the application provides insights through satellite imagery, weather forecasts, soil data, and climate patterns. Users can draw field boundaries, select specific parameters, and generate visualizations to aid in informed agricultural decision-making.

Over past decades, there has been a steep emergence in the use of larger and heavier agricultural machinery including for tillage, planting, spraying, and harvesting. Although this is done to achieve higher productivity and efficiency, the unregulated traffic in the crop fields raise wheel loads to result in heavy soil compaction risks. Soil compaction is one of the major reasons for soil health degradation impacting physical, chemical, and biological properties of the soil and eventually the crop productivity. We present the impact of soil compaction on crop yield and assess Controlled traffic farming (CTF) as a possible solution. Study results show that the soil compaction was higher for the track zone compared to the no-track zone for both the corn and soybean growing fields. Importantly, this impact was prominent in the root zone depth i.e., till and beyond the hard pan. In some cases, the compaction varied so prominently that it led to the formation of two hard pans. Evaluations for the CTF also showed a trend that the field treatments with no cover crop experienced the highest soil compactions whereas the treatments with cover crop experienced the least compaction in most cases. It was also evident that soil compaction led to reduced crop health which likely also impacts the crop yield.