Upload field photos for vegetation analysis

Satellite indices are great for trend lines, but they miss what your eye picks up at ground level: a clay crust forming after the spring rains, root collars exposed by sheep grazing, the shade of a juniper canopy versus an almond canopy. Opus 4.7's Vision pipeline reads exactly those cues — and you can hand it a field photo in three clicks.

How to upload

1. Open a parcel or polygon report. The "Field photo" panel sits below the Verdict header on every report page.
2. Drag-drop a JPG/PNG/HEIC file (≤10 MB), or click "Browse". Drone photos taken with GPS metadata get auto-tagged with their geolocation; if the photo has no EXIF coordinates, you'll be asked to drop a pin on the map first.
3. Hit "Analyze photo". Opus 4.7 Vision returns vegetation-cover percentage, dominant ground type, visible erosion features, and any anomalies it finds (livestock damage, fire scars, recent logging). The verdict updates within ~20 seconds.

What Opus reads

• Vegetation cover & species hints. Crown shape, foliage colour, density. It will guess Pistacia vera vs Juniperus seravschanica from a clear shot.
• Erosion features. Rills, gullies, bedrock exposure, sheet erosion patterns.
• Hydrology. Standing water, flow lines, salt crust, irrigation infrastructure.
• Land-use signals. Grazing pressure, woodcutting evidence, terracing, fencing.

Where the photo goes

Files are stored in the resilland-uploads MinIO bucket (S3-compatible). Each upload row in user_uploads tracks analysis_status through pending → processing → done, and the Opus Vision response is cached so re-opening the report doesn't re-bill the API.

Use cases

• Pre-bid surveys. Drop 10 drone shots from a candidate restoration site; get an Opus 4.7 verdict per photo before you write the proposal.
• MRV ground-truth. Upload last quarter's monitoring photos alongside the NDVI snapshot — Opus calls out where the satellite trend matches and where it doesn't.
• Damage assessment. Post-fire, post-flood, post-grazing. The model will quantify what's left.

Heads-up: photo analysis uses Opus 4.7 (Vision is Opus-only), which is the most expensive cascade tier. With your demo allowance you can analyse roughly 30 photos per day before hitting the limit.