Glossary
Key terms and concepts in agricultural APIs and precision farming.
Key terms and concepts in agricultural APIs and precision farming.
Geospatial data is any data that includes a geographic component — coordinates, boundaries, or spatial relationships — allowing it to be placed on a map and analyzed in relation to physical locations. In agricultural software, nearly everything is geospatial: fields are polygons, yield measurements are points, prescriptions are zones, and equipment tracks are linestrings.
When working with FieldMCP's APIs, you'll encounter these formats:
Agricultural geospatial data almost universally uses WGS 84 (EPSG:4326) — the same coordinate system as GPS. FieldMCP normalizes all provider data to WGS 84 longitude/latitude pairs. If you need to calculate areas or distances accurately, project to a local UTM zone first.
For developers building on FieldMCP:
FieldMCP's MCP tools return geospatial data as GeoJSON by default. See the tools reference and the data normalization glossary entry for how cross-provider data is standardized.