Satellite land measurement

Prawn Farmer · Mar 23, 2014

A couple of years back I remember that someone had posted a site that you could use to take land measurements and figure area via satellite. Couldn't find it in the archives - does anyone know of a legit site?

RGMartin · Mar 23, 2014

http://acme.com/planimeter/

Prawn Farmer · Mar 23, 2014

Man, that was quick - appreciate it!

Lazy WP · Mar 23, 2014

Just remember, if you have trees around a field, you aren't going to get an accurate measurement. Anyway, you didn't used to.

49716 · Mar 23, 2014

or you can use http://websoilsurvey.nrcs.usda.gov/app/WebSoilSurvey.aspx

gwece · Mar 23, 2014

Here is the one I use a lot. Works pretty well for my use. They also have one for area. Will post link for it in a second post.
Distance Calculator

gwece · Mar 23, 2014

Here is the one I use for area calculations.
Area Calculator

Dave H (MI) · Mar 23, 2014

I use the one referenced in the post below and include a direct link here. It is a little slow but really informative. I have a guy who leases a few fields from me and he has started to use GPS to determine how much he will pay me. Every year my fields seem to get smaller along with the check. I have ground surveys and they differ from his GPS. Sent him a bill this year for discrepancies and, to his credit, he paid it rather than argue. Just saying, these are not the last word in accuracy.
Area and soils.

Row Crop · Mar 24, 2014

I use Google Planimeter.

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