PlanetWatchers

PlanetWatchers provides data and analytics services for North America’s crop insurance industry, helping insurers automate policy data capture and claims validation. Its mission is to tell the story of every field through accurate, reliable agricultural monitoring, including the use of synthetic aperture radar analysis.

The company’s acreage services include forecasted acreage reporting to support sales quotations, automated reports delivered by July 1 that include planting dates, crop identification and acreage, and validation of manually collected reports after July 15. These services help identify discrepancies and reduce administrative work.

For claims, PlanetWatchers offers wind-damage detection, prevented-planting reports that consolidate relevant adjustment information, and forensic analysis of field events using time-series data from multiple sources. Its damage assessments also cover hail and flood events, with detailed crop damage maps intended to guide inspections and support faster, fairer claim resolution. PlanetWatchers works with customers to improve data collection, validation accuracy and operational efficiency.