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Fields Workspace is the single-field view. It is where an operator or agronomist spends most of their working day. The map is the primary surface; every panel is a lens over the same selected Field, Season, and satellite pass.
Fields Workspace does not introduce a new data model. Everything on screen is a projection of what already exists in Field Data Model, Risk Model, and the event stream that powers Activity & Alerts and Activity Log.

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Layout

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The context bar

The strip across the top always shows what the workspace is scoped to. It is the same strip on every workspace view; changing it changes everything below.

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The layer switcher

Below the context bar, the layer switcher controls what the map draws.

Index

NDVI, NDRE, NDMI, NDWI, LST, CWSI, Salinity. Same list as Vegetation Indices. Each index shows on the map with its own color ramp (-1 to +1 for normalized indices) and legend.

Overlays

Blocks, Zones (computed or drawn), in-flight and applied VRA maps, scout GPS tracks, sensor pins, verification markers. Toggle any combination.

Basemap

Satellite (true color), hybrid (satellite + labels), or terrain. The basemap does not affect analysis; it is context only.

Blocks scope

Show all Blocks, one Block, or a saved multi-Block selection. Everything below the map (indices, trend, findings) rescopes accordingly.

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The map

The map is the primary surface. It shows the current index colored per pixel, clipped to the Field boundary, with overlays drawn on top.
  • Click a Block to open its drilldown: rule cards, active alerts, scout tasks, recent VRA activity, verification history. All information is filtered to that Block for the duration of the click.
  • Click a Zone (computed cluster) to see per-zone stats: mean index, area, severity rank, and the source pass.
  • Draw an ad-hoc polygon with the map tool. Draw is transient by default; Save as Zone to keep it as a named Zone, or Promote to Block if it should persist across seasons. See Block vs Zone.
  • Hover any pixel or Block for a value tooltip with index name · value · pass date.

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Quick actions (the FAB)

The floating action button (bottom right) creates work from whatever is currently selected. Every action inherits the current Field, Block, pass date, and active index as context.

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The time scrubber

Below the map, the time scrubber is the second most important control after the layer switcher. It moves the entire workspace to a different pass in the season.

Pass ticks

One tick per satellite pass across the current season. Solid ticks are clear passes; hollow ticks are cloud-blocked. Tick height encodes the pass’s mean index value for the Field, so the ridge line is the season’s index curve at a glance.

Cloud-cover badge

Selected pass shows date · XX% clear. Passes below 50% clear render the map with a striped overlay and disable per-pixel drilldown, because the underlying data is unreliable.

Play / step

Step forward or back one pass at a time, or play the season as an animation. Useful for spotting when a stress event started.

Anomaly jump

The Anomaly button jumps to the pass where the selected index deviates most from the seasonal curve. This is the fastest way to answer “when did something go wrong?” without scrubbing manually.
Combine Anomaly jump with Ask the advisor to get a grounded explanation in two clicks: the anomaly pass becomes the advisor’s evidence context, and the response cites the specific rule card that best matches the deviation.

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Analytics tabs

Under the map, six tabs give you different lenses over the same field and season. All are projections of existing data; none introduce new sources. See Analytics Tabs Reference for the full detail of each tab.

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Ask the advisor from the workspace

Every workspace view has an Ask the advisor entry point. When invoked from the workspace, the advisor inherits:
  • Current Field, Estate, and Season
  • Current Block scope (if any)
  • Current index and pass date
  • Any Zone or drawn polygon selected
  • Any active rule-card match on the visible Blocks
The operator does not re-describe context. The advisor answers using the four-part schema documented in Risk Model: what’s happening, parameters, what to do, how to do it.

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Export

Export buttons live in the top-right of the workspace. The current view (map + active tab + time scrubber position) drives every export.

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Common workflows

Open the workspace on your Field. Confirm NDMI as the active index. Scan the map for orange or red Blocks. Click each concerning Block, read the top rule-card finding, hit the FAB to create a scout task or a VRA map. Total time under two minutes per Field.
Switch index to NDVI, click Anomaly. The scrubber jumps to the offending pass. Read Distribution to see if the drop is uniform (weather / drought) or patchy (biotic / infrastructure). Click Ask the advisor to get a grounded read. Assign a scout task from the FAB if the advisor is uncertain.
Open the Compare tab. Pick the same Field in the previous Season. Overlay the NDVI curves. Look at where the curves diverge and cross-reference with Actions for what was done differently. Feeds farm_history back into the Risk Model.
Set the scrubber to today, the tab to Trend, and export as PDF. Includes phenology, NDVI curve with confidence, top findings, and reproducibility footer. Attach directly to a stand-up deck or forward via Notification Preferences digest.