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Drones in agriculture (Crop spraying (Light detection, Distance measuring…
Drones in agriculture
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Crop monitoring
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Monitoring challenges are exacerbated by increasingly unpredictable weather conditions, which drive risk and field maintenance costs.
Previously, satellite imagery offered the most advanced form of monitoring.
Planting
Startups have created drone-planting systems that achieve an uptake rate of 75 percent and decrease planting costs by 85 percent.
These systems shoot pods with seeds and plant nutrients into the soil, providing the plant all the nutrients necessary to sustain life.
Irrigation
Drones with hyperspectral, multispectral, or thermal sensors can identify which parts of a field are dry or need improvements.
Additionally, once the crop is growing, drones allow the calculation of the vegetation index, which describes the relative density and health of the crop, and show the heat signature, the amount of energy or heat the crop emits.
Health assessment
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By scanning a crop using both visible and near-infrared light, drone-carried devices can identify which plants reflect different amounts of green light and NIR light. This information can produce multispectral images that track changes in plants and indicate their health.
Soil and field analysis
Drones can be instrumental at the start of the crop cycle. They produce precise 3-D maps for early soil analysis, useful in planning seed planting patterns.