Regenerative agriculture

Verify regenerative practices across your supply chain

Turn regenerative agriculture commitments into continuous, plot-level evidence. Monitor where practices are implemented, how they change over time, and where intervention is needed across thousands of farms.

The Challenge

Regenerative agriculture is scaling. Verification isn’t.

Regenerative agriculture programs increasingly span thousands of farms, multiple suppliers, and different production systems. But understanding what is actually happening on the ground still relies heavily on farmer declarations, periodic surveys, and sampled field visits.

That creates a fundamental visibility gap. Teams may know which practices they want farmers to adopt, but not consistently where they are present, whether they are being maintained, or how they are changing over time.

Different practices also leave different signals. Tree cover and vegetated buffers are persistent features. Cover crops and tillage appear seasonally. Crop rotations only become visible through a multi-year history. No single snapshot can capture them all.

As a result, sustainability and sourcing teams are left asking:

The Solution

See regenerative practices, plot by plot

Insights Hub turns satellite observations and geospatial data into consistent evidence of regenerative practices across the supply base — from persistent tree and landscape features to seasonal management practices and multi-year cropping patterns.

Trees & perennial systems

Monitor the structure, establishment and persistence of perennial vegetation:

  • Agroforestry & shade trees — Detect and distinguish shade trees from the crop canopy within production plots, measure their coverage and monitor persistence over time, providing a reliable basis for tracking tree-based carbon and other agroforestry outcomes.
  • Hedgerows & boundary vegetation — Identify and monitor vegetated features around fields where these form part of landscape, biodiversity or farm-management programs.

Seasonal & soil-cover practices

Observe management practices changing within and between growing seasons.

  • Cover crops / inter-row vegetation — Monitor soil cover between crop rows and across seasons to verify where cover cropping is being implemented.
  • Tillage or low/no-till — Track changes in vegetation and exposed-soil signals associated with soil preparation and tillage practices, since those are linked to significant GHG emissions.

Crop history & transitions

Build a historical record of what happened on each plot — not just what is visible today.

  • Crop identification — Identify crops across production areas to strengthen the foundation for practice monitoring and supply-chain analysis.
  • Crop rotation — Follow crop sequences over multiple seasons to understand rotation patterns rather than having to gather and rely on declared practice adoption.
  • Planting & harvest timing — Build a historical view of planting and harvest cycles where these can be observed remotely.
  • Renovation & replanting — Detect when perennial production plots are cleared and replanted, creating a dated record of renovation events and helping teams understand where productive capacity is being renewed.

Landscape & water protection

Verify whether regenerative production protects the ecosystems around the farm.

  • Riparian buffers — Identify waterways, map the required protection zone, and assess whether surrounding vegetation is being maintained or agricultural activity is encroaching.
  • Boundary and buffer vegetation — Apply the same geospatial pattern to defined vegetation or buffer requirements around production areas, subject to application-specific calibration.
  • Protected areas – monitor encroachment within protected areas and assess if agricultural activity is in line with the specific regulations.
Why does it matter?

Turn practice visibility into better decisions

Verify adoption beyond self-reporting
See where regenerative practices are actually observable across the supply base rather than relying only on declarations, surveys, or sampled farm visits.
Track persistence, not just adoption
Move beyond “was this practice implemented?” to understand whether tree cover, buffers and other interventions remain in place season after season.
Connect practices to wider outcomes
View regenerative agriculture alongside production risk, carbon, deforestation and other Insights Hub signals to explore relationships between practice adoption, resilience and supply risk.
Target investment where it is needed
Identify plots that already meet program goals and those requiring intervention, helping direct seedlings, technical assistance and program resources more effectively.
Strengthen sustainability evidence
Create a consistent evidence base for internal targets, supplier engagement, certification programs and sustainability reporting.
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From satellite signals to practice-level intelligence

Different practices require different evidence. Insights Hub combines satellite time series, GeoAI, land-cover and environmental datasets to interpret the signals relevant to each practice — from tree height and canopy structure to vegetation cover, exposed soil, waterways and multi-year crop history.

Reliable insights start with reliable plot data

Validate supplier geolocation and plot boundaries before analysis to create a consistent spatial foundation for practice monitoring across suppliers, regions, and seasons.

Practice-specific GeoAI

Different practices leave different spatial and temporal signatures. Picterra applies the appropriate combination of canopy, vegetation, soil, land-cover, and contextual signals rather than forcing every practice through a single detection method.

Crop context makes the signal meaningful

Crop identification and historical crop context help interpret what satellite observations mean for a particular production system — creating a stronger foundation for practice verification, rotation analysis and change detection.

Historical and continuous by design

Combine current observations with satellite time series to establish baselines, identify when practices or transitions first appeared, and monitor whether they persist over time.



From regenerative commitments to observable progress

Frequently asked questions

Remote monitoring, reporting, and verification (MRV) makes it possible to assess regenerative agriculture practices across large supply bases without relying solely on farmer declarations or sampled field visits. Picterra combines satellite imagery, geospatial data, and GeoAI to detect and track observable practices at plot level — providing consistent evidence of where practices are implemented, how they change over time, and where further verification or intervention may be needed.