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Data sources & licences

Last updated 28 October 2026

PaddIQ uses public data alongside your own records. Each source below is used under its licence, with the credit that licence asks for. Where a provider also needs its credit next to the data — the map tiles, for example — it is shown there too.

SILO climate data

Queensland Government (Long Paddock)

Daily rainfall, evaporation and temperature at your rain-gauge pins and station — fills months your gauge has no reading for, and the rainfall history behind the yield ceiling and the N rate's season odds.

Credit

Rainfall and climate data: SILO, Queensland Government (Long Paddock), CC BY 4.0.

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source

Changes made

Daily values summed to months and combined with your own gauge readings; used as inputs to PaddIQ's models. SILO does not endorse PaddIQ.

Also shown

The full credit sits under Rain gauges, in a gauge's day-by-day SILO view, under the Season Tracker heading, and on the N chart when it uses the rainfall history; “SILO” is named on each rain-gauge month it filled.

Long-term rainfall averages

Bureau of Meteorology

The long-run monthly rainfall for each station area, used for the months of the season still to come.

Credit

Long-term rainfall averages: © Commonwealth of Australia, Bureau of Meteorology, CC BY 4.0.

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source

Changes made

Station means grouped to PaddIQ's rainfall areas.

Weather forecasts

Open-Meteo

The 16-day forecast and hourly conditions on the Weather page and for spray conditions.

Credit

Weather data by Open-Meteo.com, CC BY 4.0.

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source

Changes made

Several weather models compared for agreement; Delta T worked out from temperature and humidity.

Also shown

The credit, linked, sits under the forecast heading on the Weather page. Never written into a spray diary record (those carry only what you typed or a machine logged).

Satellite imagery

Copernicus Sentinel-2 (European Union / ESA), through the Earth Search catalogue on Amazon Web Services and Digital Earth Australia

Crop biomass (NDVI and the other indices), the season biomass chart, satellite yield estimates and imagery zones.

Credit

Contains modified Copernicus Sentinel data 2026.

Licence

Copernicus Sentinel data terms and conditions (free, full and open, with a source notice) · source

Changes made

Clouds masked, turned into vegetation indices and paddock statistics.

Also shown

The notice sits in the map corner on every satellite picture (Farm Map, Imagery), under the season biomass chart, Satellite Yield and the Zones library, as the legal notice asks for adapted imagery.

Soil colour (Barest Earth)

Geoscience Australia / Digital Earth Australia

Bare-soil brightness and redness for zoning — fetched for one paddock at a time.

Credit

Barest Earth © Geoscience Australia / Digital Earth Australia, CC BY 4.0.

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source

Changes made

Clipped to your paddock, resampled to 10 m and turned into soil brightness and redness.

Also shown

The credit rides on the layer's name wherever the saved layer is listed or opened.

Gamma radiometrics

Geoscience Australia

Airborne potassium, thorium and uranium for zoning.

Credit

Radiometric Grid of Australia v4 (2019) © Geoscience Australia, CC BY 4.0.

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) · source

Changes made

Clipped to your paddock and classed for zoning.

Also shown

The credit rides on the layer's name wherever the saved layer is listed or opened.

Satellite basemap

Esri, with imagery from Maxar and Earthstar Geographics

The photo background on every map.

Credit

Powered by Esri. Satellite basemap: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community. Grey and label layers: Esri, HERE, Garmin, © OpenStreetMap contributors, and the GIS User Community.

Licence

Esri terms of use · source

Also shown

“Powered by Esri” and the sources in the corner of every map — Esri's attribution rules require it on the map itself.

Street map

OpenStreetMap contributors

The street background on the Farm Map.

Credit

© OpenStreetMap contributors.

Licence

Open Database Licence (ODbL) · source

Also shown

In the corner of the map whenever the street background is on, linked to openstreetmap.org/copyright — OpenStreetMap requires it there.

Chemical registrations, withholding periods and plantbacks

Australian Pesticides and Veterinary Medicines Authority (APVMA) PubCRIS register, via data.gov.au

Withholding and plantback markers, product matching and alternatives.

Credit

Source: APVMA PubCRIS (data.gov.au), CC BY 3.0 AU. The registered label is the legal document.

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia (CC BY 3.0 AU) · source

Changes made

Matched to the products and dates in your records.

Also shown

Shown with the withholding, plantback and alternatives details, because the label — not PaddIQ — is the legal document.

John Deere Operations Center

Deere & Company

Your fields, boundaries, operations, machines and map layers, when you connect your John Deere account.

Credit

John Deere and Operations Center are trademarks of Deere & Company. PaddIQ is not affiliated with or endorsed by Deere & Company.

Licence

John Deere API terms and your own John Deere account terms · source

Also shown

The same trademark line is in the footer of paddiqag.com and in the Terms.

None of these providers endorses PaddIQ. Questions about a source: admin@paddiqag.com.