Land report

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  • Working it out…
From maps, rain records and your visit

Is there enough water.

Read live and free: rivers and ponds from open map data, 35 years of daily rain, the height of the land, and a long-term water map covering 1984–2021. You add the groundwater notice and borewell test.
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Water score

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Reading the records…

    Water near the field

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    • Looking for rivers, canals and ponds within 5 km. The map servers are run by volunteers and can take up to a minute to answer.

    Groundwater

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    From the government's block assessment. Know better from the ground? Change it and press Save.

    Wells around the fieldgovernment record · open map
    The well you tapped

    Tap a dot on the map to see that well's numbers here.

    What the colours mean
    Tested by the government, fresh (under 1,000 TDS) Tested, on the salty side (1,000 to 2,000) Tested, salty (over 2,000) Well or borewell on the open map, not tested Your field

    The tested wells are the Central Ground Water Board's sampling points, tested 2012 to 2015. The grey ones are wells people have drawn on the open map, with no readings. Neither says what a new borewell on your field would give: only drilling does.

    Water within 5 km of the field
    Your landRivers, canals and pondsLong-term water, darker means more often
    Is the land high or low?loading
    • Reading the height of the land…
    Water standing after heavy rainnot checked
    • Connect the satellite records at the top of the report.

    A radar summary can flag open-water-like conditions in a picture period. It cannot give the exact image time or fill gaps between pictures, so this report never invents “days underwater”.

    Rain in past years

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    • Reading 35 years of daily rain. On a slow connection this can take a minute or two.

    Rain in the next 10 days

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    • Reading the forecast…
    DayMost likely (mm)Range (mm)Heavy rain chanceChance of rainHottest (°C)

    Your borewell test

    Fill a drum from the borewell and time it with a phone stopwatch. The report records the measured flow and daily pumping volume.

    not tested
    From satellite pictures

    What has grown here.

    Every few days a European satellite photographs this field. Green leaves absorb red light, so the picture shows how much crop is standing. We read one figure a month since 2017, and we read the fields around it the same way, so this field is judged against its own neighbours in the same weather. It shows THAT something grew and how well. It never shows WHICH crop.
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    How green the field was, month by month

    Each point is one month. The line climbs while a crop is growing and falls after it is cut, so every hump is one crop. Two humps in a year means two crops off the same land. A low flat stretch means bare ground. A break in the line is not a bare field: it means cloud hid the ground that month, which happens most in the monsoon.

    This fieldThe fields around it
    Year by year

    Bare soil reads near 0 and a thick healthy crop reads near 0.9. The last column is how far above or below the neighbouring fields this one got, on that same scale.

    YearWhat was seenHow green it gotAgainst the neighbours
    What it means
    • not checkedConnect the satellite records above. No crop history is being guessed.
    From government soil tests

    What the soil is like.

    Real lab tests done by the government on fields near yours, every round since 2015. They are the closest thing to a soil test you can get without paying for one. If you do get your own test, type it in and it replaces these.
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    Government soil tests near this field

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    Looking for government soil tests within 1, 3 and 8 km of your field…

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      The form below is filled with these numbers on its own, marked as an estimate. Press this to put them back after editing.
      Where those tests were done

      Each dot is one government soil test, coloured by its result. Your field is drawn on top, split into parts, with the spots where you would dig your own samples.

      Soil numbers for your field not tested

      This fills itself in with the usual numbers from the government tests nearby, marked as an estimate. If you get your own lab sheet, type its numbers over them and press "Save as my own test"; a test of this field always beats the neighbours' tests.

      About the parts: we split the field into equal parts and marked spots to dig. That is only a sampling plan so one sample never covers too much ground. It is not a claim that the parts of your field are different — nobody has tested inside it yet.

      If you want your own test: for each part of the field, take 10 to 15 small scoops of soil in a zigzag walk, each one a spade deep (about 15 cm). Mix them all in a bucket and send half a kilo to the lab. One sample should not cover more than about 2.5 acres.

      Matched against this field

      What you can grow here.

      180 Indian crops screened across their supported seasons using the available soil, weather, water and land evidence, together with the Google Sheet. Reference-only sheet guidance is provisional; nearby observations and modelled estimates are not tests of this field. Crop cards show source guidance where available, and the summary and follow-ups use the wider field record, including growth history and unresolved risks. This is preliminary crop suitability, not a yield or sales guarantee.
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      Matched against: waiting for the soil and rain records.
      Crops this field can carry, season by seasonnot worked out

      Loading the Google Sheet before matching crops…

      Waiting for the soil and rain records.

      What is holding the rest back

      Waiting for the soil and rain records.

      Ruled out, and why

      Waiting for the soil and rain records.

      What it means
      • not checkedThe soil and rain records have to load before any crop can be matched.

      Ask about these crops

      Your crop results appear above automatically. Use the same field chatbot below to ask about a crop, its risks, nutrients, water or growing season.

      Checking the crop-reference sheet used by the chatbot…

      Checking chatbot availability. Your crop results do not depend on the chat.

      This conversation is open in the floating chat.
      From satellite pictures

      Which parts of it are weak.

      The field is split into squares and each square is judged on how green the crop got there, from the 10 m satellite, in every monsoon and winter season since 2017. A square that comes up weak most years is weak; one that is weak in wet years but fine in dry ones is telling you something else. Greenness answers for everything at once: water, sowing date, seed, fertiliser and care, not only the soil. A weak square is a place to walk to, not a diagnosis.
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      Written by an AI from the figures in this section only, and checked against them. The figures are the report's own; this reading of them can be wrong.

      Your field, square by square not checked
      Weak most seasons Strong most seasons Up and down by year About the same Not enough clear pictures
      Squares worth walking to

      Not checked. Connect the satellite records above.

      What it means
      • not checkedConnect the satellite records above. No part of the field is being guessed at.
      From satellite radar

      Does water stand on it.

      A radar satellite can see the ground straight through monsoon cloud. It cannot tell you the field is wet. It can only see ground that reads like open water: a sheet still and wide enough to show. We compare each picture with the way this same field normally reads, so we are looking for a change on your land, not a match to a picture of a lake. Even when it shows nothing, it cannot tell you what caused water, how deep it was, or how many days it stayed.
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      Written by an AI from the figures in this section only, and checked against them. The figures are the report's own; this reading of them can be wrong.

      What the satellite saw, year by year

      Not checked. Connect the satellite records above.

      Long-term water around the field
      Your landWater seen repeatedly from 1984 to 2021Rivers, canals and ponds on the mapOn the map, but never seen wet from space (dashed)Went dark like water in wet months, past yearsLow squares water drains into

      Once the radar history is read, the squares that read as water in past years are drawn on this map in blue.

      How soon after the rain we could look

      This matters more than it sounds. If water sat for three days and drained, and the satellite came a fortnight later, nobody would ever see it.

      YearBig rain dayHow much fellSatellite cameWater seen
      Waiting for the rain record and the radar.
      If it rains hard, where does the water go
      • Waiting for the height map.

      Where the water runs, square by squarenot checked

      The same squares as the crop history, with a ring of squares around them, each given a height from a 30 m height map. One rule is applied to every square: water leaves it towards its lowest neighbour. The arrow shows which way, the blue shows how many squares drain through it, and a dot marks a square with nowhere lower to go.

      Your landArrow: which way the square drainsDeeper blue: more squares drain through itDot: collects, nowhere lower to goGold arrow: where water leaves the field
      • Reading the height map.

      What it means
      • not checkedConnect the satellite records above. No flood history is being guessed.