Case study

Field-level tea mapping, Kenya

  • Tea
  • Kenya
  • Sysmera analysis
Kenya: Sysmera delivery site at NairobiNairobi
Kenya282,727 ha

Context

An open, peer-reviewed dataset and a 10 m satellite map, built into a processing chain for every tea-growing area.

What we built

A processing chain over an open, peer-reviewed dataset and a 10 m satellite map; an atlas, an interactive map, a data pack and a field-validation protocol.

Outcome

282,727 ha of Kenyan tea mapped at field level from open satellite data and 16,825 hand-labelled fields.

Figures

282,727 ha

of tea mapped at field level

16,825

hand-labelled fields behind the model

10 m

Sentinel-2 resolution, 2023

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2023.

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