Introduction Precision agriculture workflows involve operation of aerial drones, sensors/cameras, and software applications. The goal is to gain valuable insights into your crops. In recent times, the number of growers using drones to collect crop and field data has increased significantly. Agriculture-specific applications have been developed to meet this demand. Users can plan autonomous flight
Many of us seek methods to optimize crop production by gaining more information from the field. Various technologies are available for grower’s aid electronic devices, sensors, data management applications, and artificial intelligence (AI) technology, to name a few. These trends became more critical in the past decade or so and became a center of research
FreeFly Astro Industrial Drones FreeFly’s newest commercial drones. It has RTK and a 61 megapixel Sony Camera FreeFly Astro drones are powered by Skynode and FreeFly’s mission control suite, Auterion. Skynode has: LTE connectivity and a built-in linux computer. It connects to the Auterion software suite that lets you conduct mission planning and fly the
It is a lightweight fixed wing drone. It provides accurate results (down to 1.5 cm/.06 in) using the built-in, on-demand RTK/PPK. As with other drones using RTK and PPK, it is not necessary to set ground control points (GCP) to achieve the desired precision in the mapping survey. It is compatible with several cameras that
NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) is a graphical display that represents the results from images that were captured with a multispectral sensor during a remote unmanned vehicle survey mission and analyzed for the presence of live green plant life. Thus, NDVI information will bear out a measure for crop health. Learn More (Last Edit: 18
RTK (real-time kinematic) positioning is a function that can be applied during an aerial survey to correct for errors in location positions of GPS or GNSS, or satellite navigation systems. The information being gathered by the unmanned drone is sent to a ground base station where real-time corrections are applied. Wikipedia RTK
These sensors measure light from six bands of the light spectrum. The spectral bands measured include RGB imaging plus red, green, red edge, and near-infrared (NIR). Images from the red edge light range of the spectrum allow one to determine the early onset of crop disease and crop stress and are used for both NDVI
This sensor is a dual-purpose thermal and mapping camera (640 x 512 px Flir sensor + 20 MP RGB). Micasense Duet T is capable of creating: Learn More
SenseFly eBee X The eBee X is a lightweight fixed wing drone. It provides accurate results (down to 1.5 cm/.06 in) using the built-in, on-demand RTK/PPK. As with other drones using RTK and PPK, it is not necessary to set ground control points (GCP) to achieve the desired precision in the mapping survey. The eBee
The Agras T-Series are Agricultural drones used for spraying your crops and fields. You can use one of these drones along with a Phantom series drone, for instance, a Phantom 4 RTK for a complete agricultural solution. A typical workflow would look like: Plan a survey flight with the Phantom RTK for precise data collection