Here's What's New in Solvi

The first update of the year brings a splash of color to Zonal Statistics!

We’ve made it easier than ever to customize the look and feel of your zones:

Flexible Classification: Choose any number of classes for your plots.

New Color Schemes: Select from 5 new color schemes, with the option to invert colors.

New Classification Modes: Classify your stats using equal intervals, equal count, or natural breaks.

Custom Opacity: Make zones fully transparent or set your preferred opacity.

And the best part?

All your settings in Zonal Statistics are now automatically remembered and reused in future datasets.

Fewer clicks, more analytics! 🚀

This last update of 2024 brings a few improvements:

• Improved performance in Plant Focus - navigating the map with Plant Focus turned on could often get slow, but not anymore. We have improved the rendering of the vegetation masks for better and smoother navigation.
• Second slider for max values in Plant Focus - it is now possible to create vegetation masks by filtering out values beyond the max threshold. It can be useful for example for filtering out soil pixels using thermal imagery.
• Custom percentiles in Zonal Statistics - custom percentile options, from 5 to 95 percentiles can now be chosen in addition to previously available 25 and 75 percentile options.
• Better management of custom attributes in Zonal Statistics - when zones with custom attributes are imported from a SHP-file, the data types of the attributes are now preserved all the way to the export of the statistics. In addition, the styling of custom attributes should now be more consistent.
• Updated component for choosing and creating Fields - the old component where fields could be both chosen and created within the same dropdown was quite confusing. It’s now replaced with a dropdown for selection of the Fields and a separate button to create new ones.
• Export of Canopy Height Models - CHM can now be downloaded as GeoTIFF or JPEG, similar to the DSMs

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We are excited to release a major update to the Elevation tool that now features:

• New dynamic map rendering - you can now choose how to colour-classify different elevation values, similar to the Plant Health maps
• Create Canopy Height Model using manual reference points or a DTM created in the early pre-emergence growth stages
• Use Canopy Height Model to calculate height of the crops in the Zonal Statistics tool
• Upload your own DSM, for example one created from LiDAR data for better accuracy

See how it works in practice:

In this update, we bring you a few new features and updates:

• Support custom coordinate systems for raster exports : Orthomosaics, Elevation and Plant Health maps can now be downloaded in custom coordinate systems. UTM is used as a default.
• It is now possible to delete Farms that don’t have any uploads.
• For users in an Organisation access can now be managed on the Farm-level
• Full and more descriptive attribute names are now displayed in Zonal Statistics CSV exports
• Zonal Statistics can now be downloaded in Geopackage format

We are excited to release a major upgrade to the Trial Plot Creation Tools!

This new update includes:

• New workflow for plot generation - mark corners of the whole trial, specify number of rows and columns (or plot dimensions) and gaps, and the plots will be generated for the whole trial automatically
• Possibility to choose which side of the trial area is rows and which is columns
• More flexible naming of the plots
• Possibility to import plots from Excel - for every cell in the Excel file that has value, a plot will be created and cell’s value will be used as plot ID

See how it works:

In this update we released a few minor improvements:

• Declutter plot labels in Zonal Statistics in outer map zoom levels
• Plot labels now always keep horizontal orientation, even when the map is rotated
• In fields with multiple uploads, “View map” button on the field card is always visible, even if there is an ongoing upload so that previous uploads can be accessed
• Non-NADIR images that the DJI drones have at some point started taking after the mission is completed are now automatically removed from the upload to avoid potential stitching issues
• Improved generation of the PDF-reports to avoid cases when some parts of the map were not rendered
• Add support for thermal imagery from DJI Mavic 2 Enterprise Advanced

In this update we bring you a new feature - Density Maps, and a few improvements:

• Density Maps can now be created for Plant Counts. Choose the grid size and direction of the rows and plant density (plants per hectare or acre) will be calculated for the whole field
• Enterprise users - custom vegetation indices are now available for the whole Organisation so all users, including new ones, automatically get access to all indices
• Opt in to get notified when a PlantAI detection has finished processing
• Histogram range in the Plant Focus tool can now be “zoomed in” for better accuracy

We are excited to introduce a new tool - Plant Focus!

With Plant Focus, you can can remove unwanted parts of the imagery, like soil or weds, from the analysis so that Plant Health maps and Zonal Statistics only use crop data.

This is achieved by creating Vegetation Masks using one of the approaches:

• Vegetation Index: Use any vegetation index, such as NDVI or VARI, in the early growth stages to distinguish crops from soil by choosing the appropriate index threshold
• PlantAI Detections: Utilize PlantAI detections to separate crops from other vegetation like weeds or grass between the rows

Learn more about Plant Focus in this article.

In this update we improved support for thermal imgery:

• Single-band thermal orthomosaics (in centikelvin format) can now be uploaded
• RGB and Thermal images from DJI Mavic 3T can be uploaded together. Higher-resolution RGB will be used for stitching and displayed as default map layer. Thermal imagery can be visualized in the Plant Health tool and used for thermal stats calculation in Zonal Statistics