Can you recommend a satellite imagery platform for prioritizing scouting routes after rainfall?

Yes — for prioritizing scouting routes after rainfall, I’d recommend a platform that gives you:

• Frequent updates or near-real-time imagery
• Fast cloud-free access
• Easy field overlays on maps
• Vegetation and moisture analytics
• Simple export to GPS/mobile devices

Best overall recommendation: Planet

Why it fits:

• Very high revisit frequency, which is useful right after rain
• Good for spotting changes, field accessibility issues, standing water, and crop stress
• Integrates well with GIS and farm management tools
• Strong for operational scouting decisions when timing matters

Good alternatives depending on needs

Sentinel Hub

• Great if you want access to Sentinel-2 and other free/open satellite data
• Good for vegetation indices like NDVI
• Useful if you’re comfortable with some technical setup
• Best for cost-conscious workflows

EOSDA Crop Monitoring

• More user-friendly for agriculture teams
• Includes field monitoring, vegetation maps, and weather layers
• Good for turning imagery into scouting priorities without much GIS work

Google Earth Engine

• Extremely powerful for custom analysis
• Best if you have technical staff or analysts
• Not the easiest “ready-to-use” scouting platform, but excellent for building custom rain-response maps

If your main goal is scouting after rainfall

Look for a platform that can combine:

• Rainfall maps
• Soil moisture or wetness proxies
• Cloud masking
• Field boundaries
• Task assignment / route planning

In practice, Planet + a scouting app or GIS tool is often the strongest setup.

If you want, I can also suggest:

1. the best low-cost option,
2. the best agriculture-specific platform, or
3. a workflow for turning satellite imagery into scouting routes.