Workflow Narrative

In-Season Crop Stress Intervention Planning

Problem It Solves

Where should interventions be prioritized this week to limit stress-driven yield loss?

Who It Is For

Agronomy advisors and farm operations teams managing in-season response.

Primary User

Precision agronomy service providers and large production farms.

What It Does

Prioritizes intervention zones from in-season crop stress indicators.
Combines vigor decline with optional thermal and moisture stress context.

How It Works

Uses NDVI/vigor deficit as the primary stress signal.
Harmonizes optional canopy-temperature and soil-moisture rasters to the NDVI grid.
Produces intervention-priority and intervention-class surfaces.
QA acceptance guidance:
`status=pass` indicates intervention burden is below review threshold.
`diagnostics.acceptance_thresholds.high_priority_fraction_review` defines escalation threshold for broad intervention risk.
High `summary.high_priority_fraction` should trigger stress-source verification before large-scale treatment rollout.
MVP hardening assets:
Benchmark scaffold: `tests/fixtures/precision_ag_ops_benchmark/`
Promotion guide: `docs/internal/development/TERRAIN_PRECISION_AG_BENCHMARK_PROMOTION_GUIDE_2026_04_14.md`

Inputs

Parameter	Optional	Description
ndvi	no	NDVI/vigor raster normalized to [0,1].
canopy_temperature	yes	Optional thermal-stress raster normalized to [0,1].
soil_moisture	yes	Optional moisture-deficit raster normalized to [0,1].

Outputs

Parameter	Type	Description
intervention_priority	GeoTIFF	Continuous intervention-priority score [0,1].
intervention_class	GeoTIFF	Discrete intervention class raster (1 low to 4 urgent).
summary	JSON	Machine-readable summary report containing run metadata, QA diagnostics, and key metrics.
html_report	HTML	Human-readable customer-facing report generated from the summary contract for stakeholder review and QA traceability.

Python Example

import whitebox_workflows as wbw

wbe = wbw.WbEnvironment(include_pro=True, tier="pro")

priority, classes, summary = wbe.in_season_crop_stress_intervention_planning(
    ndvi="data/ndvi_current.tif",
    canopy_temperature="data/canopy_temp_stress.tif",
    soil_moisture="data/moisture_deficit.tif",
    output_prefix="output/in_season_stress",
)

print(priority)
print(classes)
print(summary)

License Notice

Use of this function requires a license for Whitebox Workflows Professional (WbW-Pro). Please visit www.whiteboxgeo.com to purchase a license.

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