Detect-and-decide platform
Vision-guided treatment decisions for specialty crops.
Swathmark is developing a computer-vision platform that connects operational field imagery, biological threshold policies, and decision traceability. The intended output is a local treatment, no-treatment, or abstain decision that can be represented for third-party agricultural equipment.
Drag the handle — or focus it and use the arrow keys — to compare the capture with the detection layer.
Detection review
Field capture, detection regions, life stage, and review state.
The decision layer
Detection is not the decision.
Finding a pest in an image is only one step. A field treatment decision also depends on image quality, pest life stage, density, crop stage, biological thresholds, uncertainty, and the location where action may be justified.
Swathmark is being built to connect those inputs to a traceable treatment, no-treatment, or abstain decision.
How Swathmark is being built
From operational capture to a traceable local decision.
Capture
Register the field, crop, capture session, camera rig, calibration, operating geometry, and required metadata.
Verify
Validate data rights, provenance, metadata completeness, calibration status, and image quality before an asset enters the learning workflow.
Detect
Apply versioned computer-vision models to identify relevant pests, life stages, and spatial observations.
Decide
Evaluate model outputs, biological context, uncertainty, and a versioned threshold policy. Produce a treatment, no-treatment, or abstain outcome.
Export
Represent the decision as a geographic treatment zone and machine-readable decision record for a future third-party equipment interface.
payload → awaiting capture
Platform capabilities
One traceable workflow, end to end.
Swathmark is not a dedicated treatment machine and it is not a generic farm dashboard. It is a single traceable workflow from field media to a treatment-zone export. Curious where the product stands today? Reach out and we will walk you through it.
Why start with CPB
A concrete proving ground for a reusable decision engine.
Colorado potato beetle in potatoes provides a visible, biologically staged, threshold-managed validation domain.
Swathmark is designing the data, policy, evaluation, and equipment interfaces so the platform can extend beyond a single pest or crop. That extension remains a product direction, not a claim of current production performance.
Built for accountable decisions
Every decision needs a chain of evidence.
Swathmark is being designed so a treatment decision can be traced to its source media, field context, rights status, annotations, dataset, model, calibration, threshold policy, review history, and exported treatment zone.
Data rights
Training eligibility is intended to be an enforceable system state, not an undocumented note.
Biological policy
Threshold logic is intended to be versioned, reviewable, and separate from detector code.
Decision lineage
A decision is intended to retain the exact model, calibration, policy, and source assets that produced it.
Outcome (synthetic)
Localized treatment
Alternatives: no-treatment · abstain
Threshold decision
Policy version, threshold state, and treatment, no-treatment, or abstain outcome.
Field and research partnerships
Build the evidence behind the decision engine.
Swathmark is qualifying organizations and specialists that can contribute operational field access, controlled biological truth, capture capability, adjudication, or future equipment-integration context.
Research stations
Controlled infestation, replicated plots, and biological adjudication.
Commercial cooperatives
Operational acreage, real capture windows, and working equipment.
OEM engineering
Integration interfaces, edge constraints, and equipment contracts.
Entomology & agronomy
Threshold-policy review, life-stage adjudication, and field truth.
The public form is for initial qualification only. Do not submit confidential farm records, pesticide records, field logs, precise field coordinates, imagery, or proprietary research. A field program begins only under a separate signed agreement and approved data-transfer process.
Swathmark
The brain comes before the treatment machine.
Swathmark is focused first on the data, computer vision, threshold policy, validation, and decision infrastructure required to produce a defensible local treatment decision.
Dedicated treatment machinery is outside the current MVP. Future equipment integration begins from a defined software contract, not from building a machine before the decision engine is validated.
In depth
The detail behind each part of the chain.
Each page states its inputs, outputs, limitations, and what has and has not been demonstrated. Terminology is shared across all of them.
- Agricultural computer visionWhat agricultural computer vision estimates from field imagery, what it cannot establish on its own, and why a detection is not yet a treatment decision.
- Pest decision platformHow a pest decision platform differs from pest detection: the verified inputs it requires, the treat, no-treat, or abstain outputs it produces, and who uses it.
- Decision traceabilityWhat decision traceability means in practice: the provenance, model and policy versions, review history, and decision records needed to reconstruct a treatment decision.
- Biological threshold policiesWhat a biological threshold policy contains, how it differs from a detection, who sets thresholds, and why policy is versioned separately from model code.
- Uncertainty and abstentionWhy an agricultural decision system must be able to abstain, when it should, how uncertainty differs from abstention, and what happens after an abstain result.
- Field data verificationThe capture metadata, rights, calibration, and image-quality checks a field image must pass before it can support a decision or enter a training dataset.
- OEM integrationHow an equipment manufacturer would consume a Swathmark decision: interface design, the edge and cloud boundary, treatment-zone exports, and compatibility status.
- Colorado potato beetleColorado potato beetle biology and life stages, what computer vision can detect for each, why Swathmark starts here, and the current validation and evidence status.
- GlossaryThe definitions used consistently across every page of this site.
Questions
Common questions about Swathmark.
- What is Swathmark?
- Swathmark is a computer-vision decision and traceability platform for specialty-crop pest management. It is being built to turn verified field imagery into an explicit treat, no-treat, or abstain decision, and to retain the evidence behind that decision so it can be examined later.
- More on Pest decision platform
- How is Swathmark different from pest detection?
- Detection estimates what is present in imagery. A decision additionally requires verified inputs, biological thresholds, uncertainty handling, and traceability — the four things that let a treatment be defended, and corrected if it turns out to be wrong.
- More on Agricultural computer vision
- What decisions can Swathmark produce?
- Treat, no-treat, or abstain, for a defined area and time and only within stated operating and validation boundaries. Each outcome is retained with the model version and threshold policy version that produced it.
- More on Pest decision platform
- What does “abstain” mean?
- It means the platform has declined to produce a decision because the evidence or the operating conditions were insufficient to support one. The reason is recorded rather than replaced with a default answer.
- More on Uncertainty and abstention
- Does Swathmark make treatment equipment?
- No. Swathmark is the decision layer and is intended to work with compatible third-party equipment. Dedicated treatment machinery is outside the current platform scope.
- More on OEM integration
- What is the first proving domain?
- Colorado potato beetle in potatoes. Validation is confined to that crop and pest; extension to further pests, crops, regions, and capture systems is a design direction rather than a tested result.
- More on Colorado potato beetle
- Is Swathmark commercially available?
- No. Swathmark is under development and field validation. Product materials describe intended and pilot-stage functionality and do not constitute agronomic, pesticide-label, or treatment advice.
- Who can join the Field Program?
- Commercial specialty-crop farms, agricultural research stations, entomologists and agronomists, field-capture and sensing teams, and agricultural equipment manufacturers. A field program begins only under a separate signed agreement and an approved data-transfer process.
Work on the first field-to-decision program.
Swathmark is qualifying field, research, biology, capture, and equipment collaborators for pilot and validation work.