Tolbi · Yield · 2024 — now
Yield forecasts at 10 metres, for thousands of one-hectare farms
Per-parcel yield forecasts, crop stages and fertility maps for smallholder farms, served fast and reliably.
- 137×
- faster heaviest endpoint (31.5 s → 0.23 s)
- 28,000 → 1
- PNG tiles per season replaced by one COG per layer
- ~730
- tests on the service
Cooperatives upload their parcels and get back, for each field, a yield forecast and the maps that go with it, down to 10 metres.
I’ve been the main author of this backend since 2024. My work was on the engineering side: keeping the product stable while the models behind it changed, making results correct and reproducible, and making the heaviest parts of the API fast enough to use day to day.