Orchard field note: a lower-vigor corner in a redacted cherry block

Section 1

What this source-backed example records

Farmbit product material uses a redacted North Okanagan cherry block to show how a first-walk note is written. It marks a lower-vigor corner with Medium confidence. The source provides no walk date, scene count, raw scene, field finding, intervention, yield result, or economic result, so this is an operating example rather than a completed customer case study.

Section 2

Method named by the current workflow

The current scouting view uses a recent 30-day lookback and names Sentinel-2 plus NDVI, NDWI, NDMI, NDRE, and EVI as available signal views. The source does not expose raw band values, exact scene dates, usable-scene count, scoring weights, or a downloadable image for this cherry block. Those details remain unknown here.

Section 3

What the lower-vigor corner can and cannot mean

The corner is a priority for a field check, not an identified cause. Uneven emitter flow, soil-moisture difference, pruning, replanting, slope, or a valve-zone boundary could all create a similar pattern. A satellite signal does not establish disease, pest pressure, irrigation failure, or a treatment need.

Section 4

First field procedure

Confirm the block polygon, review the usable observations and cloud or shadow state, then walk the lower-vigor corner first. Check emitter flow, irrigation pressure, and soil moisture; compare the flagged trees with adjacent rows; and record recent pruning, replanting, canopy gaps, slope, and valve-zone boundaries. Keep the remote signal and the field finding as separate records.

Section 5

Separate public demo boundary

The public Farmbit sample is a shifted-geometry vineyard demo, not this North Okanagan cherry example. It exposes file shape, ranking fields, and report artifacts, but its two checkpoints and values do not fill the missing cherry evidence or prove performance on a commercial orchard.

Sources and public artifacts

• Farmbit public sample output (separate shifted demo)
• Farmbit shifted-demo metadata (JSON)
• Farmbit shifted-demo temporal comparison (JSON)