"Profit from Precision"
St. Paul, Minnesota precision-agriculture company builds drone sensors and crop analytics software; acquired by John Deere in May 2025.
Sentera is a precision-agriculture technology company headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota, describing more than a decade of work developing drone-based sensing and crop analytics for farming operations. The company relocated within the Twin Cities to St. Paul's Midway district in 2021 after raising a funding round. In May 2025, John Deere acquired Sentera to add aerial field-scouting technology to its precision-agriculture lineup; Deere extended job offers to Sentera's roughly 50 US-based employees as part of the deal.
Sentera's FieldAgent platform brings together cloud-based collection, analysis and sharing of field imagery for crop monitoring. Its sensor lineup includes high-resolution RGB cameras and multispectral sensors that compute vegetation indices such as NDVI and NDRE for plant-level assessment, mounted on fixed-wing and other drone platforms including its PHX aircraft for broad-acre field coverage. The company's SmartScript software analyzes imagery to identify weeds and generate targeted herbicide-application maps, and its PixelScout imagery tools support further field-level analytics.
Sentera now operates as part of John Deere's precision-agriculture business, continuing to serve farmers and agricultural retailers with imagery-driven decision tools for weed pressure, crop health and input management.
Primary type & automation activities this supplier delivers:
Cloud-based precision agriculture software platform for drone imagery analysis, agronomic insights, and weed prescription generation.
Multi-role fixed-wing drone platform for broad-area agricultural data collection with multispectral and RGB sensor payloads.
Contact Sentera
WEBSITE
https://sentera.comPHONE
1-844-736-8372HEADQUARTERS
United States
Company Facts
Founded
2014
Primary Role
Manufacturer
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Primary Region
North America
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Funding Stage
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