Get More from NDVI: How Standard and Dynamic Views Help You Act Faster

Get More from NDVI: How Standard and Dynamic Views Help You Act Faster

NDVI imagery is one of the many high-value tools built into the Taranis platform to help you make fast, informed decisions across your operation. While leaf-level insights—like stand counts, weed species, and disease detection—offer a detailed ground view, NDVI complements them with a broader perspective. It shows trending crop health at the field and farm level. With just a glance, you can spot variability, monitor progress across the season, and prioritize where to focus efforts. With two distinct NDVI views—Standard and Dynamic—you can tailor your analysis based on the type of decision being made. 

NDVI Standard: For Field-to-Field and Season-to-Season Comparisons

Standard NDVI applies a fixed color scale across all fields and all dates. It’s ideal when consistency matters—such as comparing different fields or tracking changes over time.

Use it when you want to:
  1. Compare overall health across multiple fields.
  2. Benchmark one field’s progress against another.
  3. Spot seasonal trends or measure treatment impact.
What to Expect:
  1. Greens, yellows, and reds reflect absolute vegetation values:
    1. Dark green indicates strong vegetative growth—typically your healthiest zones.
    2. Yellow to orange shows moderate vegetation.
    3. Red highlights weak or no vegetation, such as thin stands, waterlogged areas, or stressed zones.

Tip: Because the color scale is fixed, a red zone in one field is directly comparable to a red zone in another. This makes Standard NDVI perfect for evaluating performance across time and space.

NDVI Dynamic: For Spotting In-Field Variability

Dynamic NDVI recalibrates the color scale for each field and date, making it highly effective for identifying subtle differences within a single field.

Use it when you want to:
  1. Detect variability and stress within a single field.
  2. Prioritize where to scout or sample.
  3. Catch early warning signs before yield is impacted.
What to Expect:
  1. Colors reflect relative performance within the field:
    1. Dark green shows the best-performing areas of that field on that date.
    2. Yellow to red marks areas that are lagging behind—even if the overall field is healthy.
Tip: You may see red or yellow zones even in strong fields—these simply represent the lower-performing areas relative to the field’s top-performing zones. Dynamic NDVI helps you find and investigate these local outliers.

Where to Find NDVI Imagery in Taranis
  1. Log in to the Taranis Web App.
  2. From the Recent Insights tab, select a field of interest and shift to Map View.
  3. On the left side of the screen, click the Layers icon (second from the top).

  1. Choose either NDVI Dynamic or NDVI Standard.

  1. Select the time range to view images from different points in the season.

  1. Select Compare Layers to view two NDVI images side by side.


The Bottom Line
When you need consistent comparisons across fields, dates, or treatments, Standard NDVI is the right choice. To focus on in-field variability and pinpoint subtle differences, turn to Dynamic NDVI. Used together, these two perspectives offer a complete picture of field health—helping you scout smarter, plan more precisely, and act faster. 


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