Tools for land managers to generate grazing, forage quality, and nutrient application reports.
Built for ranchers, farmers, and land managers across the western United States, Zubr turns hyperspectral remote sensing and field calibrated lab chemistry into forage quality maps and decision reports. We are based in Missoula, Montana.
Rangeland decision dashboard: forage-quality heat map with crude protein, silica, biomass, and available AUMs by pasture.
What we deliver
Four service lines share one engine and one growing calibration dataset, so every new customer strengthens the asset that serves the rest.
Forage Intelligence Report
Seasonal or one-time assessment of forage quantity, quality, and grazing capacity for a ranch, allotment, or treatment area.
Treatment ROI Monitoring
Before-and-after measurement of vegetation response and recovered forage value from weed control or restoration work.
Conservation Documentation
Program-ready baselines and before/after monitoring for NRCS-style conservation and Defend the Core work.
Advisor & Cooperative Platform
Multi-property monitoring with standardized, white-label reporting, plus dashboard access over time.
How it works
A field-validated bridge from imagery to forage decisions.
Calibrate
Field crews collect grass samples; lab chemistry (silica, nitrogen, fiber) anchors our spectral calibration library.
Fly
Hyperspectral and lidar UAV surveys scale those signals from the bench to the canopy across your acres.
Model
Interpretable, uncertainty-aware models predict forage quality and biomass, and flag low-confidence pixels.
Decide
Maps become grazing-days, AUMs, nutritional-risk classes, and treatment-priority scores you can act on.
Process graphic: field sampling → hyperspectral UAV flight → calibrated forage-quality map → decision report.
forage yield loss documented in ventenata-invaded rangeland
estimated U.S. cost of plant invasions, the second costliest biological threat
spectral range we mine for silica, nitrogen, and fiber signatures
the range our calibrated models are built to scale across
Who we work with
We sell to the organizations that manage and document decisions across many properties: grazing advisors and range consultants, conservation and weed districts, NRCS-style technical service providers, restoration and herbicide firms, grazing cooperatives, and agency staff managing federal and state grazing lands.
Tell us about your rangelandBuilt with research and engineering partners
An NSF STTR team spanning field science, optical engineering, and rangeland ecology.
UM Spatial Analysis Lab
University of Montana, field calibration and validation
MSU Optical Technology Center
Montana State University, instrumentation and optical engineering
MT Headwaters Tech Hub
Commercialization & test-bed access