Space to Soil

LandScout is an onboard satellite intelligence system that delivers plant-health alerts to farmers in minutes instead of days. It consists of two working components: a mobile app where farmers draw their parcels and label their crops, and ScoutOS — lightweight onboard analysis software that runs on commercial low-power satellite hardware (NVIDIA Jetson, ~6 W). When the satellite passes over a registered parcel, ScoutOS executes a three-stage cascading pipeline using NASA-validated vegetation indices, spectral classification against published reference libraries, and lightweight vision-language verification to suppress false positives. Only confirmed actionable alerts (~300 bytes) downlink via Iridium and push to the farmer's phone. By moving decision-making into orbit, LandScout replaces terabytes of downlinked imagery with kilobyte-sized decisions, collapses decision latency from days to minutes, and enables pre-symptomatic intervention before crop damage becomes visible.

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