Applied research · Satellite imagery × Deep learning

We research how AI reads the land.

// From orbit to insight - openly.

TechShoor Agri is an applied research group working at the intersection of remote sensing, deep learning and agriculture. We build multi-spectral models, crop-disease detectors and open benchmarks that read the signals nature already sends - from orbit.

Current focus · GeoAgri-MS-VLM
8Disease models
13-bandMulti-spectral
OpenBenchmark & data
Layered multi-spectral satellite analysis of farmland — imagery, land-cover and vegetation-stress planes captured from orbit.
31.5204°N 74.3587°E · Punjab
NDVI · Vigor0.81 Healthy
Tomato · Zone 4Late Blight
Soil moistureStress: Low
/ 02 - Disease models
Research prototypes · disease detection

Disease-detection models we've built.

A core strand of our research: deep-learning classifiers that identify crop disease from a single leaf image. Eight crops, published as free, interactive prototypes you can try right now.

Sentinel-2 · 13 bands
Punjab · Sindh · KP
Who we are

An applied research group for geospatial agriculture.

TechShoor Agri sits at the intersection of remote sensing, deep learning and agriculture. We're not selling a product - we're researching one: building multi-spectral models, disease detectors and open benchmarks, and partnering with researchers and institutions to turn satellite data into agricultural insight for Pakistan and beyond.

MA

Muhammad Azhar

Working on TechShoor Agri
/ 01 - Flagship research
Master's thesis · MS Artificial Intelligence, FAST-NUCES Karachi

GeoAgri-MS-VLM - teaching AI to read a field, not just look at it.

A Multi-Spectral Vision-Language Model for Geospatial Agricultural Analysis. One model that takes raw multi-band satellite imagery and answers questions about it in plain language - what's growing, whether it's stressed, and what to do next.

In active development MS Thesis · 2026 Target venue: IEEE TGRS / Remote Sensing of Environment Runs on a single GPU (RTX 3090 / 4090)
The problem

Most vision models are spectrally blind.

A standard vision-language model sees only Red, Green and Blue - the same three channels as a phone camera. But the earliest fingerprints of drought, disease and nutrient deficiency hide in the bands the eye can't see: red-edge, near-infrared and short-wave infrared. GeoAgri-MS-VLM reads all 13 Sentinel-2 bands, so it can flag trouble weeks before it surfaces in an ordinary photo.

RGB model sees 3 bands  ·  GeoAgri-MS-VLM reads 13

The architecture

From spectral pixels to a spoken answer.

Input
🛰️
Sentinel-2

13-band GeoTIFF tile

❄️MS Encoder
🌐
Prithvi-EO 2.0

Geospatial foundation model

🔥Projector
🔗
MLP Projector

Aligns vision → language

🔥LLM · QLoRA
🧠
Qwen2.5-VL-7B

Reasons & answers

→ Crop-type classification → Stress & disease detection → Agricultural Q&A (VQA)

❄️ frozen  ·  🔥 trained  -  only the lightweight projector and QLoRA adapters are trained, so the whole system fits and trains on a single consumer GPU.

What it can do

Three jobs, one model.

🗺️

Crop-Type Classification

Identify what's growing in each field straight from multi-spectral imagery - no ground visit required.

🍂

Stress & Disease Detection

Surface drought, nutrient and disease signatures early - while there's still time to act on them.

💬

Agricultural VQA

Ask a question about a field in plain English and get a grounded, evidence-based answer back.

🗺️
New open benchmark

PakAgri-GeoTIFF-VQA

A purpose-built benchmark pairing GeoTIFF satellite tiles with agricultural question–answer pairs across real farming regions of Pakistan - created to evaluate multi-spectral reasoning where it matters most.

📍 Punjab📍 Sindh📍 Khyber Pakhtunkhwa
Core contributions
  • 01
    A parameter-efficient adaptation recipe. A LoRA / QLoRA method for adapting multi-spectral VLMs, validated through six systematic, pre-registered ablation studies.
  • 02
    The PakAgri-GeoTIFF-VQA benchmark. A new, openly evaluable dataset for multi-spectral agricultural reasoning grounded in Pakistan's fields.
Research questions
  • H1
    Does a multi-spectral VLM outperform an RGB-only VLM on agricultural tasks?
  • H2
    How much does the spectral-fusion strategy change performance? (four strategies compared)
  • H3
    Does accuracy vary by crop type × growth stage - and where does the model struggle?

🌱 How it connects: GeoAgri-MS-VLM is the research engine behind the next generation of TechShoor Agri - evolving today's one-model-per-crop detectors into a single system that understands the whole field, end to end.

/ 04 - Why it matters
Why this research matters

The problem we're researching against.

The pressure on global food systems is real. Better, data-driven decisions in the field are part of the answer - and that's what our research is for.

0M

people face hunger worldwide

0%

of global freshwater goes to agriculture

0B t

of food is wasted every single year

0%

of crop loss is preventable with early action

/ 05 - Purpose & impact
Aligned with global goals

Sustainable Development Goals.

Our work maps directly onto four UN Sustainable Development Goals - food, water, livelihoods and climate.

02

Zero Hunger

More resilient yields for food security.

🌾
06

Clean Water

Smarter irrigation, far less waste.

💧
08

Decent Work & Growth

Higher returns for farming communities.

📈
13

Climate Action

Efficient, lower-impact agriculture.

🌍
Researcher, student or partner?

Let's collaborate on geospatial agriculture.

Get in touch Live demos
/ 06 - Mission
Why we do this research

Our research mission.

Read the signals nature already provides - rigorously, openly and cost-effectively - and turn them into knowledge farmers and researchers can use.

Better quality

Accurate, timely information about the health and condition of every crop.

More quantity

Optimized irrigation, fertilization and pest control for higher output.

Real-time signals

Satellite imagery and deep learning analyze crop conditions as they change.

Sustainability

Help farmers raise yields while making food production more sustainable.

Predictability

Deep learning surfaces patterns and trends for far more reliable forecasts.

Self-sustenance

The tools and knowledge farmers need to become more independent.

/ 07 - Research pipeline
How our research works

From raw orbit data to a tested model.

Four stages take us from raw multi-spectral imagery to rigorously evaluated, reproducible models.

1
🛰️

Data Acquisition

Gather multi-band Sentinel-2 imagery over real agricultural regions.

2
🗂️

Spectral Processing

Turn raw GeoTIFFs into clean, model-ready multi-spectral tiles.

3
🧠

Model Development

Train and adapt deep-learning and vision-language architectures.

4
📊

Evaluation

Benchmark rigorously against held-out data and open datasets.

Our research stack

The tools behind the research.