What’s New in FieldClimate:

• Hybrid Station Extension:
  You can make your physical METOS^® station “Hybrid” by extending it with virtual sensors. The service is available via a yearly subscription. Your station-sensor configuration will be automatically extended with the available set of virtual sensors apart from the existing physical sensors. The available sensors for the extension are: Air temperature (virtual), Relative humidity (virtual), Leaf wetness (virtual), Precipitation (virtual), Wind speed avg (virtual), Wind speed gust (virtual), Wind direction (virtual), Global solar radiation (virtual), Soil temperature (virtual)

The service is applied per station: all the users having access to a station with an active “Hybrid station extension” subscription will see the configuration of the extended sensors.

• Disease Models Page:

  • Hazelnut > “Monilia Risk” model available. Requires temperature and leaf wetness sensors.

  • Potato > “White mold” infection model available. Requires air temperature, relative humidity, leaf wetness, precipitation, and soil temperature sensors.

  • Strawberry > “Anthracnose” infection model available. Requires leaf wetness and air temperature sensors, therefore, the model can be used in greenhouses.

• Notifications:

  • New notification option for “Precipitation – current day”: if the station has a rain sensor – in addition to the alert for the “Precipitation – Raw” value – an option to set an alert for the “Precipitation – Current Day” value is now also available. As a result, the user will receive a notification based on a threshold set for the cumulated precipitation on the current day (from midnight until the last data reading).

  • General notification experience improvements:

    • A new notification counter is now shown in a badge on the bell icon;

    • In the Notifications History, the unread notifications are highlighted in green.

• What’s New in FarmView:

  • Yield Prediction Page: Potato now available: The Yield Prediction feature now includes potatoes, alongside our existing crops wheat, barley, rapeseed (canola), durum wheat, soya beans, and maize. 

What’s New in FieldClimate:

• User Menu Page:

  • API Services > New API subscription flow: We’re excited to bring you the latest update from Pessl Instruments – a brand-new API subscription flow designed to cater to your diverse data needs and usage scales. Now, activate your API subscription directly from FieldClimate! And, if you’re already subscribed, you can easily monitor your current API usage.

  • User Licenses > API subscriptions are also displayed on the renewed page: API subscriptions will be displayed on details with “start” and “expiry” dates, package and tier types, likewise, the number of API calls for each station per day.

• Dashboard:

  • In the station list and map widgets, new sensors can be selected in the corresponding drop-down menus. They are:

  • Wind speed
  • Leaf wetness, 1 hour
  • Wet bulb temperature
  
  Furthermore, for stations logging and transmitting data at intervals shorter than 1 hour, the station list and the map widgets now show the last raw values, ensuring a full real-time experience.

• Disease Models Page:
  • “Alternaria sp.” model added to the crop package “Walnuts, Almonds and Pistachio”.

• Many drop-down menus are improved with a search option.

• Dashboard Page:

• Wind Rose Diagram widget: available for stations with wind speed and wind direction sensors, the new widget shows a Wind Rose chart giving an overview of wind speed and wind direction distribution at a particular location over a specific period of time.

• Stations List widget > Export table as xls: once downloading the xls file, the sheet will contain all the other available sensors and values.

• Device Settings Page:

• We adjusted the default suggested value for measuring, logging and transmission settings of some IoT devices (nMETOS and METOS FWT).

What’s New in FieldClimate:

• Dashboard map: the “refresh”button was removed. The map is now instantly updated once switching between the drop-down sensors.

  • Date and last measurement: mousing over the pins will show date and time of last measurement for that value.

• Station data page:

  • Charts: for “daily” aggregations, the bar charts for precipitation, leaf wetness, and sunshine duration are now placed on top of each day.

• Station list: star icon allows to favoritize and fix stations on top of the list.

• New Features: new features or pages in FieldClimate are now identified with an icon and a simple description of its functionality.

• FarmView:

  • Cropzone list: star icon allows to favoritize and fix cropzones on top of the list.

• Weather Forecast:

  • Weather Maps -> Weather warnings: new maps plugin to announce weather warning changes – followed by warning pop-ups – for current and forecasted conditions.

  • History & Climate -> Risk Assessment -> Water capacity: a new sub-page with historical data for estimated probability of remaining soil water amount (mm).

• Device Settings page: a dedicated page to set the elevation for devices with ultrasonic sensor, in particular indicated as “Field Water Tube Settings” for METOS^® FWT devices and “Water Level Settings” for other water level measurements. In this page, elevation values can be adjusted and archived.

• iSCOUT^® page: Insect renaming is now easier. Additionally, to make it simpler to search among your pest insects, we replaced the Latin order names with their common names.

What’s New in FieldClimate:

• FarmView:

  • Yield Prediction – new crops available: in addition to wheat, barley, and rapeseed (canola), the crops soybeans, maize (for grain), and durum wheat are now available.

  • Yield Prediction – fine tune maturity timing and yield potential: in the settings, slider rulers are now available to adjust the parameters and account for local environment conditions and cultivar specifics, including early vs. late ripening or low vs. high yield potential.

  • Yield Prediction – required Weather Forecast license NOTE: as mentioned previously, Yield Prediction requires an active Weather Forecast license to function properly.

What’s New in FieldClimate:

1. Weather Forecast page:

• New History & Climate: a broad scope of functionalities focused on historical climate data per station location.
  • Risk Assessment: displays the probability of a specific weather event or risk to occur during a year. Diagrams are available for cold, warm, and precipitation events, based on 30 years of historical simulation data. 
  • Climate Comparison: both subpages show expected weather and a comparison of historical weather variables to display the “Next 6 days” and “Last 12 months”, respectively. 

2. Work Planning page:

• New Spraying Window: Code was updated with new parameters and thresholds, improving the performance of the model towards standard-international recommendations and simplified outputs. 

3.FarmView:

• Cropzone duplication from Management page: allows multiple cropzones to be duplicated at once, with settings copied from the previous one. 
• Yield Prediction – New precipitation graphs: display rain events, current and historic average cumulative rain under the Yield Prediction chart.
• Yield Prediction – Required Weather Forecast license NOTE: to ensure the proper functioning of Yield Prediction, it is essential to have an active Weather Forecast license on your virtual or physical weather station.

What’s New in FieldClimate?

• Accumulator tool -> Chilling Units:
  • Utah Positive CU model added: the new model of Positive Chill Units (PCU) is a modification of the Utah Model.
• Extreme Weather Monitoring page: new page in FieldClimate for a more friendly monitoring and forecasting of frost and heat waves. Keeping an eye over measured and forecast data on the same chart in a combination with the thresholds from notifications and SMS warnings. At least one of the following sensors required: air temperature sensor or Wet and Dry bulb temperature sensors.
• Work Tracking Device settings: device configuration settings simplified.
• iSCOUT page:
  • Insect Hierarchy: implementation of a structure to identify insects on different levels (Order, Family, Species) to be applied on different approaches (pest monitoring, biodiversity studies).
  • Search option on insect list: by entering the insect name in a searching field that specific insect can be filtered easier from the whole list.
• License Warning Messages: available for all pages with licensing services, a new warning message will be displayed 10 days before license expiration, on top of the page.
• FarmView:
  • Yield Prediction: the Previous Yields chart was redesigned to better display measured vs. forecast yields at a glance.

What’s New in FieldClimate?

• Station Data page:
  • Sunshine Duration: quantity derived from solar radiation is available on the All Sensors and Growing Climate profiles
    • Available for iMETOS 3.3 (FW 8.603.20220609) and µMETOS NB-IoT (FW 3.11.20220511)
    • Sensor Menu: default periods were adjusted for a more friendly data visualization.
• Station Settings:
  • Frost Notifications: now distinguished and highlighted in blue, under your notifications’ list
• iSCOUT page:
  • Updated insect list: Extended and improved insect list. Focused on a greater diversity of insects, not only on “pest insects”.
• FarmViews
  • Yield Prediction: water-based Yield Prediction for wheat, barley, and canola, currently as a free beta-test version (until October 2022).
  • Manual Rain Gauge: rain events can be manually added through Irrimet calendar. Select if you want to retrieve rain data from your stations or enter them manually per cropzone.
  • Bug fixes in license management.

What’s New in FieldClimate?

• Work Tracking widget: a new widget, available to be set on the FieldClimate dashboard, giving a glimpse of all Work Tracking trips, plus, the possibility of comparing different devices.
• User menu -> Account Settings:
  • Close Account: option to automatically close account, compliant with legal privacy requirements.

Where to get licenses for FarmView and other FieldClimate services:

• Ask your distributor, visit our online store: shop.metos.at, or contact us: [email protected]
• As a FieldClimate user, you can activate and configure your licenses directly on the FieldClimate portal: fieldclimate.com – User menu – Product Activation. Active licenses are visible also in the User menu – User licenses

What’s New in FieldClimate?

• Station Settings page -> Configuration
  • Frost-Monitoring Mode: this feature automatically sets shorter-transfer intervals (5 or 10 minutes, instead of 1 hour) during frost conditions. Only when the temperature sensor selected by the user (either wet bulb temperature, dry bulb temperature or air temperature) goes below 5°C or 41°F values.
    • Once Frost Mode is enabled, new notifications will be automatically sent out when the temperature value goes below 1°C or 33.8°F (same temperature sensor previously selected by the user in Frost Mode). Users can then change the sensor, edit the threshold or delete the notification at any time.
    • Available for iMETOS 3.3, iMETOS ECO D3 and μMETOS stations.
• “Satellite-only” licenses: the FarmView Satellite Page (with LAI and NDVI indexes in time-series imagery) is now available detached from other FarmView modules, with dedicated licenses (for 25 or 100 crop zones).
• User menu -> API services:
  • Customization of JOHN DEERE Operations Center data forwarding: individual sensors on iMETOS devices can be activated or deactivated for the sync.

Where to get licenses for FieldClimate services:

• Ask your distributor, visit our online store: shop.metos.at, or contact us: [email protected]
• As a FieldClimate user, you can activate and configure your licenses directly on the FieldClimate portal: fieldclimate.com – User menu – Product Activation. Active licenses are visible also in the User menu – User licenses

What’s New in FieldClimate?

• Account Notification List:
  • New Notification list: dedicated to show all of your account notifications in only one place. Users can access “History” or “Configuration” to create new station notifications via this new feature, given by the bell icon on your right corner of the FieldClimate page.
• Work Planning page:
  • Sowing window: new crop (cotton) has been added to the list to calculate crop-sowing suitability.
  • Tropical Sowing Window sub-page: New model to calculate crop-sowing suitability for tropical climates.
    • This is an additional license that needs to be activated apart from the Work Planning license. Furthermore, this model is especially dedicated to crops from tropical environments.
• Station Settings page:
  • Correct Precipitation Data: precipitation data can be manually adjusted. Data can be corrected per hour, filtered to a certain time period or even reset to 0, in case of incorrect measurements, for example, due to sensor movements in installation or service phase. Changes will be instantly seen on all the data pages and applications.
• Data page for MobiLab Devices:
  • MobiLab sampling data: in FieldClimate, visualized on a map, plus, raw-data table with all measurements displayed.

What’s New in FarmView?

• Satellite page: Improvements on the NDVI fitting curve.

Where to get licenses for FarmView and other FieldClimate services:

• Ask your distributor, visit our online store: shop.metos.at, or contact us: [email protected]
• As a FieldClimate user, you can activate and configure your licenses directly on the FieldClimate portal: fieldclimate.com – User menu – Product Activation. Active licenses are visible also in the User menu – User licenses

What’s New in FarmView?

• Satellite page: Satellite Map: a map, with satellite-layer, to visualize the cropzone boundary with LAI or NDVI indexes overlaid. Displayed for the individual images of 10m resolution.

What’s New in FieldClimate?

• Dashboard Page: Station List Widget: an improved widget for easy data access. Sort table data per column, or, via sensor selection, and export the full station list in one file.
• Weather Forecast Page: Improvements on meteoblue Maps Plugin: the map shows by default satellite with radar option, for any part of the globe.

Where to get licenses for FarmView and other FieldClimate services:

• Ask your distributor, visit our online store: shop.metos.at, or contact us: [email protected]
• As a FieldClimate user, you can activate and configure your licenses directly on the FieldClimate portal: fieldclimate.com – User menu – Product Activation. Active licenses are visible also in the User menu – User licenses

What’s New in FarmView?

• Cropzone Settings page: Shapefiles upload: users can now import shapefiles as an option to create new cropzone boundaries. The file can contain multiple zones, from where you can select one cropzone to work with and set up your data.
• Satellite page: Improvement on Satellite LAI and NDVI graphs: mean values, for LAI and NDVI indexes, are now included in the graph.
• Cropzone Nutrition page: Data display for MobiLab samples, inside the cropzone boundaries. Check samples in time and space.

What’s New in FieldClimate?

• Weather Forecast page -> Precipitation radar: Maps plugin: new feature includes 24h radar history with forecast and the map “Weather Radar” for Global, EU (+2h Forecast) and USA (+1h Forecast).

Where to get licenses for FarmView and other FieldClimate services:

• Ask your distributor, visit our online store: shop.metos.at, or contact us: [email protected]
• As a FieldClimate user, you can activate and configure your licenses directly on the FieldClimate portal: fieldclimate.com – User menu – Product Activation. Active licenses are visible also in the User menu – User licenses

What’s New in FarmView?

• Satellite page: NDVI Index added: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) is a qualitative indicator of vegetation health, based on photosynthetic activity radiation. Data is displayed on a graph – NDVI development over time – plus, on satellite images with the index.
• New Cropzone pages:
  • Cropzone Nutrition page: DualEx samples are now visualized inside the cropzone boundaries, on a map.
  • Cropzone SoilGuard page: SoilGuard samples are now visualized inside the cropzone boundaries, on a map.

What’s New in FieldClimate?

• Station data page: Pore Water EC calculation is now available for 5TE and GS3 sensors.
• Accumulator Tool page > Degree Days: Page improvements with terminology clarifications – Minimum Temperature was renamed as ‘Base Temperature’ and formulas were added to the help button.
• iSCOUT page: Definition of “ glue boards” for seasonal tracking of insects:
  • iSCOUT Glue Boards: define your insect pest on glue boards.
  • iSCOUT Seasons: summarize glue boards to seasons and be therefore able to track your target insect through the whole season. With that approach also multiple targets could be followed.
  • Monitoring data: shows counts and population curve of the defined target insect of the glue boards.
• Station Settings page > Sensors and Nodes: For soil moisture sensor PI54-D: possibility to change between two existing calibrations, applied to the relative dielectric permittivity to obtain the VWC (Volumetric Water Content) output. In the default option “PI54D Default” no calculation is applied in FieldClimate and the adopted calibration is the one defined in the device firmware. After saving new settings, on the Soil moisture page or on the Station data page, one click on the red “Refresh” button is necessary to load updated data.

Where to get licenses for FarmView and other FieldClimate services:

• Ask your distributor, visit our online store: shop.metos.at, or contact us: [email protected]
• As a FieldClimate user, you can activate and configure your licenses directly on the FieldClimate portal: fieldclimate.com – User menu – Product Activation. Active licenses are visible also in the User menu – User licenses

What’s New in FarmView?

• Station distance selection, in Irrimet settings: Rain and ET0 stations can be placed within 10 or 30 km radius from the cropzone, and distinguished in FarmView settings. A facility for growers with larger fields.
• Satellite page: imagery sequence changed from left to right to match with the graph timeline.

What’s New in FieldClimate?

• iMETOS iSCOUT page: iSCOUT Pests – Insects can be customized (pest species, common name) and will be tracked automatically back and forward as long as they are visible on the glueboard.
• Data page for SoilGuard devices: SoilGuard sampling data can be visualized on a map with colored-threshold indications for VWC and Temperature variables.
• Hydroponics page: Data display for the required hardware solution with high scale resolution and drainage status for hydroponics. Calculations include: drainage and uptake quotients, plus quantification of Water In and Water Out . The page also includes a raw data table and export button.

Where to get licenses for FarmView and other FieldClimate services:

• Ask your distributor, visit our online store: shop.metos.at, or contact us: [email protected]
• As a FieldClimate user, you can activate and configure your licenses directly on the FieldClimate portal: ng.fieldclimate.com – User menu – Product Activation. Active licenses are visible also in the User menu – User licenses

What’s New in FarmView?

Download the Satellite Module Brochure and read about the changes made.

What’s New in FarmView?

FarmView Premium Service got a crop zone management page:

• FarmView Premium Service requires a license.
• New FarmView Irrimet screen offers PAW in % of available water and complements already existing Available Water in mm.
• FarmView will start working with a licenses system from 25/02. Different licensing packages will be available for a full experience with FarmView.
• Stay tuned for the new Satellite module release in March 2021.

What’s New in FieldClimate?

• Support of new camera control unit: now its possible to monitor and evaluate clima data together with your iScout and CropVIEW imagery
• Two camera systems can be connected to one camera control unit
• API integration of Davis WeatherLink stations to FieldClimate platform. Davis sensors can be linked to Disease models, Irrimet and Soil moisture modules. Ingest service requires a license.
  More about the activation process in the video.

Where to get licenses for FarmView and other FieldClimate services:

• Ask your distributor, visit our online store: shop.metos.at, or contact us: [email protected]
• As a FieldClimate user, you can activate and configure your licenses directly on the FieldClimate portal: ng.fieldclimate.com – User menu – Product Activation. Active licenses are visible also in the User menu – User licenses

What’s New in FarmView?

FarmView Premium Service got a crop zone management page:

• Cropzones and fields can be now viewed at glance via our management page in the upper right menu.
• The page offers options to view, sort, filter, edit, delete or rename cropzones, fields and farms.
• We also added an option to show or hide already finished cropzones. The option is available in the management page or at the bottom of the cropzone list in the upper right menu.

Irrimet improvements:

• You and your workers are even better connected. The irrigation events are visible to any logged-in user(s) instantly after storing.
• Your irrigation parameters and model recommendations can be viewed or exported into xls format.
• We don’t stop expanding our existing modules. Irrimet module now has a better design to make the data interpretation easy to read.

What’s New in FieldClimate?

Irrimet improvements:

• Users can add species to be used for manual annotations on iScout imagery.

FieldClimate notifications & alerts – Integration with latest FieldClimate Apps:

• On the FieldClimate portal you can now configure your sensor alerts, which can trigger an email or a push-notification sent to your smartphone.
• Server alerts require read-write station access for your FieldClimate user account.
• FieldClimate mobile app can receive users’ alerts as FieldClimate notifications on the smartphone. The logged-in user in the app must be the one with the configured alerts on the web portal. Get the latest FieldClimate mobile app from official stores: [Play Store, App Store].

Disease model updates:

• Wheat and Barley: Drechslera teres, Drechslera graminea

Ingest service added:

• Generic data import for 3rd party IoT sensors and data loggers via FieldClimate API is available

General improvements:

• Dashboard widget updates

What’s New in FieldClimate for Android & iOS:

• Reception of FieldClimate Push-Notifications. To be configured on FieldClimate.
• Weather Summary: customizable sensor selection and order [videos: customization, device selection].
• Soil Moisture: colors and ranges based on editable soil water budget information [video].
• Map View: last position for trackers is shown.
• Station Overview: added plant-available water.
• UI fixes, support for 20 languages.

• Farmview Premium Service: you are enabled to:
  • document your field by providing borders, crop, management dates and related iMETOS® sensors
  • document your irrigation operations with help of easy-to-use calendar
  • learn how much and when to irrigate
  • prioritize irrigation strategies within your farm

  Click here to access the tutorial.
  Press release was launch on 17.3.2020 and can be found here.

• General improvements:
  • Special characters are allowed in custom names during device registration
  • Station list stays during typing and automatically disappears when getting out of focus
  • Pressure switches are now visible in soil moisture page
• Work planning:
  • Fine tuned plant protection recommendation graph for low delta T
  • Added harvesting window under work planning page
  • Chart visualization includes varying amplitudes besides colors for the hourly values
• Active trackers:
  • Optimization of data handling and presentation: faster page load and resource optimization
  • Complete trip segmentation handling overhaul: precise trip calculation and trip duration
  • Functionality of reports and service intervals needed to be temporary removed

• General improvements:
  • Added dedicated Português do Brasil (pt-BR) language support
  • Added support for multiple dashboards
  • Delta T data can be exported to Excel similar to physical sensors
  • Only visible sensors in the Station Data section are included in the export
  • Fixed empty columns in Station Data monthly Excel export
  • Added service interval for tracked machines
  • Added mmHg and inHg pressure units
  • Smaller UI fixes
• New forecast variables:
  • Added snow amount and sunshine time to weather forecast details graphs
• Mobile devices support:
  • Besides our FieldClimate app, FieldClimate renders nicer on mobiles and tablets
• JohnDeere OP Center:
  • Device synchronization fixes
  • Tracker icon changed on Operation Center map
• Azure FarmBeats:
  • Added configuration for data push to FarmBeats environment

• General:
  • Fixed hidden labels bug requiring refreshing the pages
  • New users are better guided for adding initial station(s)
  • Export of sensor data lists in MS Excel format
  • Station list provides a vertical scroll bar and the search boxes stay on top
  • Added translations
• Soil Moisture page:
  • Fixed conversion factor for unit [in/4in]
  • Restructured custom views and replaced “Custom View” button label by an icon
• MyJohnDeere station data push configuration in User menu > API services:
  • Station list splits into pages if there are many
  • R/w access to station is necessary to activate last sensor readings push to MyJohnDeere
  • FieldClimate appears as a tool on My.Deere.com
• Work planning page:
  • Stability improvements