Product profile
TerraSentia
TerraSentia is EarthSense’s ultracompact autonomous field phenotyping robot for collecting under-canopy crop data throughout a growing season. Its integrat...
Facts
- Company
- EarthSense
- Product type
- agricultural_robot
- Status
- commercial
- Primary capability
- Autonomous field phenotyping and trait collection
- Website
- https://www.earthsense.co/terrasentia
About TerraSentia
TerraSentia travels between crop rows beneath the canopy, where aerial imagery cannot directly measure stems, ears and lower leaves. Four high-definition cameras record plants from several angles, while onboard compute and positioning maintain row navigation even where dense foliage degrades satellite reception.
EarthSense software converts the imagery into traits including stand count, stem width, plant and ear height, leaf-area index and soybean pod count. The robot operates for more than three hours, turns within its own footprint and handles wet field conditions. Fleets can collect repeated measurements throughout a growing season, with EarthSense reporting autonomous operation across more than 200,000 corn plots.
Market context
ground_robot, official_16x9_ready, Field Phenotyping Robot, official_product_media, agriculture_robot, Field Phenotyping Robot, agriculture_robot, field_phenotyping_robot, agriculture_robot
Summary
Type: Field robot
Core: TerraSentia
Function: Trait capture
Audience: Crop researchers
Specifications
- camera_count
- 4 high-definition RGB cameras
- runtime_h
- 3+ hours h
- scan_rate
- 10 plants per second plants/s
- simultaneous_traits
- 5+ traits simultaneously
Operations
- Environment
- agricultural_fields
- Primary user
- Crop breeders and agricultural researchers
- Role
- Autonomous field phenotyping and trait collection
- Interaction model
- autonomous_and_operator_supervised
- Mobility class
- wheeled_ground_robot
- Product detail
- ground_robot, official_16x9_ready, Field Phenotyping Robot, official_product_media, agriculture_robot, Field Phenotyping Robot, agriculture_robot, field_phenotyping_robot, agriculture_robot
Research, Articles and recent verified events
- EarthSense reports 80 TerraSentia robots deployed — 2020-07-22
- EarthSense wins NSF Phase II award for TerraSentia robotics — 2020-04-13
- EarthSense raises seed funding for TerraSentia — 2019-06-01