Smoke & Hazards

6th Grain’s Smoke & Hazards platform provides immediate and direct information for growers, distributors and salespeople to manage risk from smoke and fire during the fire season. We provide information via the platform to provide the following products to help improve decision making and reduce risk.

Data for Managing Sensitive Crops

• Identify the most effective time to combat weeds
• Plan herbicide application according to Spray Calendar
• Daily smoke data presented, along with past seven days
• Air quality observations

Smoke Hazards

• Active fire polygons and fronts
  Zoomable across multiple scales
• Burned area maps
  in key agricultural regions from satellites
• Asset risk
  Gives capability to put client and distributor buildings, warehouses, vehicles at risk for specific locations
• Available Air quality particulates PM 2.5 maps
  and air quality index maps and time series
• Aerosol Optical Depth (AOD)
  surface data from GOES and VIIRS sensors

Additional Hazards

• Hail
• Frost
• High Winds
• Heavy Snow