Field monitoring · public data
Every morning, you know which fields to check.
CropOwl brings together the weather, water restrictions, soil, terrain and satellite images for each of your fields. When something deserves a visit, it tells you: in the app, and by email at 7 am.
A few minutes to get started · computer and phone, even without signal
To checkRisk of water stress
- Water restriction: heightened alertVigiEau · decree of 1 August 2025
- 7-day water balance: −31 mmOpen-Meteo, Météo-France · 2 h ago
- Vegetation (NDVI): 0.81 → 0.66Sentinel-2 · clear image of 12 August
What CropOwl watches
Four signals, worked out for each field.
Water stress
Little rain and high evapotranspiration over the last 7 days, with no useful rain forecast in the next 48 hours.
Open-Meteo · Météo-France models
Water restriction
A prefectoral decree limits irrigation in the field's zone, depending on where your water comes from: surface, groundwater or mains.
VigiEau
Vegetation decline
The NDVI drops sharply compared with the field's trend. During the harvest period, CropOwl simply asks whether it has been harvested.
Sentinel-2 · Copernicus
Severe weather
Frost, extreme heat, strong wind or heavy rain in the next 24 to 48 hours. If it's within the next 24 hours, the email goes out straight away.
Open-Meteo · Météo-France models
Every alert says why it was raised: the values recorded, the thresholds crossed and the version of the rule. You turn it into a task with a due date, or dismiss it and say why; those reasons are used to tune the thresholds.
In the field
In your pocket, at the edge of the field.
CropOwl goes with you to the field: it opens without signal, keeps what you see there, and fits your farm.
Even without signal
Install the app on your phone's home screen: your fields, alerts and tasks open in the middle of your land, and what you do there goes out as soon as there is signal again.
Your photos on the map
Photograph a field or a task, and say what you see. With its position, each photo takes its place on the map, coloured by what it shows: season after season, the spots to check again stand out.
The hollows where frost is harder
For each field, the terrain tells whether its lowest point lies in a hollow below the land around it. On clear, calm nights, cold air settles there.
Your thresholds, your rhythm
Set the farm's weather thresholds, pause alerts on a fallow or sold field, and get the digest every morning or only on Mondays.
Get started
Your fields monitored in a few minutes.
Find your farm
Type an address or the name of the town: the map centres on your land.
Click your parcels
The parcels declared under the CAP appear: select yours, merge those that form a single field, or draw an outline. Or import this year's Telepac declaration in one go.
Answer three questions
Crop, field status, irrigation. The profile builds straight away, and the monitoring begins.
Data
Figures whose origin you know.
CropOwl doesn't make up data: it gathers the figures of the reference bodies, dates them and relates them to your fields. Estimates are flagged, and an unavailable source shows the date of its last value.
All the sources and their licences| Data | Source | Refreshed |
|---|---|---|
| Weather and water balance | Open-Meteo, Météo-France models | every 3 h |
| Water restrictions | VigiEau | every day |
| Vegetation (NDVI) | Sentinel-2, Copernicus | every day, cloud permitting |
| Soil | SoilGrids, ISRIC | estimate, once |
| Terrain | IGN, RGE ALTI | once per outline |
| Parcels and crops | IGN, RPG, or your Telepac declaration | yearly edition, or this year's |
You decide.
CropOwl flags conditions to check; it prescribes nothing. For irrigation, the prefectoral decree is what counts.
Your data stays yours.
No reselling, no advertising. Export your tasks whenever you like.
Hosted in Europe.
Database in Frankfurt, encrypted connections, access limited to your organisation.
Pricing
Free to start, no card needed.
Free
€0
Up to 10 fields and 2 members per farm.
- A profile for each field: weather, water, satellite, soil, terrain
- Fields picked on the map or imported from Telepac
- Alerts and an email digest, every morning or every Monday
- The app on your phone, even without signal, and your field photos
- Tasks, CSV export, in four languages
Larger farms
Soon
More fields and members, and connections to your stations and software: a paid plan is on its way. Let's talk about your farm:
contact@cropowl.comQuestions
Before you start.
Do I need to install anything?
No. CropOwl works in the browser, on a computer as well as on a phone. On the phone, you can also install it on the home screen: it then works without signal, in the middle of your fields.
My field doesn't appear, or its outline has changed.
The published parcel register is about a year behind. Import this year's Telepac declaration, or draw the outline directly on the map: the profile builds the same way.
The suggested crop is wrong.
It comes from the declaration of the register's year. Import this year's Telepac declaration, or correct it when you create the field, or later, at any time.
Does CropOwl replace my agronomist or adviser?
No. CropOwl tells you what to go and look at, and when. The diagnosis and the decision stay in the field, with you and your advisers.
Who sees my fields?
The members of your organisation, and nobody else. The public data services only receive coordinates, never your name. Our privacy policy
What if I import my Telepac declaration?
CropOwl only reads its blocks and parcels: numbers, outlines and crops. The rest isn't read, and the file isn't kept. Our privacy policy
And my photos?
They're optional. What the camera writes in the file (model, position) is removed before sending; the position is recorded only if you allow it on your phone. They also help us check how right the alerts are. Our privacy policy
In which languages?
French, English, Spanish and German, emails included. Choose the language in the menu at the top of the page or of the app.
What about winter?
There is less vegetation to follow, but the weather watch goes on: frost, strong wind, heavy rain. And your fields are ready for spring.
Let CropOwl keep watch.
Create your account and add your fields: the monitoring starts straight away.