Agriculture

For generations farmers have walked their fields investigating crops manually for signs of stress or disease. This traditional, labor intensive method is time consuming and can be difficult when crop canopies thicken.

Farmers are now able to evaluate their crops at scale while simultaneously creating crop maps that help them manage crops and time better. Detailed images that are essential for analysis are captured in the field.  The NDVI camera allows for multi-spectral crop inspections, giving the farmer to access the data from their mobile device and create a road map for spraying.  The data output files can then be uploaded to DJI Agras T40 series and control the output of spray to a field depending on the data.  

Innovations in Drone Application

Drones have been used in a number of innovative ways from pest and disease control in the Maldives to integrating them with traditional grape farming techniques or even in smart farming, optimizing potato and rice yields.  One large scale potato farmer in Washington State saw an 80% reduction in insect damage by conducting spot spraying on a 60-hectare field.  In Japan a local rice producer was able to save on fertilizer and increase his yield, giving him an additional 5,425 USD per hectare. Some of the more novel use cases include pollination, shaking dead flowers from fruit trees, and spraying of antifreeze and sunscreen for fruit trees.