Drone survey for agriculture
Multispectral crop health mapping, plant counts, irrigation diagnostics and variable-rate prescriptions for field crops, orchards and plantations.
- Covered per day
- 250 ha
- Earlier stress detection
- 2-3 wks
- Machine-ready output
- ISOXML
Context
See crop stress weeks before it is visible from the ground
Agriculture is a game of timing. An intervention two weeks early is agronomy; the same intervention two weeks late is loss assessment. Multispectral imaging closes that gap because near-infrared reflectance falls before the crop looks different to a human eye.
We calibrate every flight against a reflectance panel with an incident-light sensor logging throughout, which is what makes index values comparable between flights, fields and seasons. Uncalibrated NDVI is a picture; calibrated NDVI is a measurement you can act on and audit.
The North-East brings its own requirements - tea estates, rubber plantations, terraced and fragmented holdings - and the workflows differ from those for open field crops. We handle stand-level estate inventory, gap and vacancy mapping, and terrain modelling for drainage on sloped plantation ground.
What clients bring us
- Stress and disease found only once yield has already been lost
- Uniform input application across fields that are anything but uniform
- Plant population and gaps estimated by walking transects
- Irrigation problems invisible until the crop shows damage
What we do about it
- Calibrated NDVI and NDRE flights timed to the growth stages where the data changes a decision
- Vigour zoning converted into machine-ready variable-rate prescriptions
- Automated plant counting with gap maps for replant planning
- Waterlogging and irrigation uniformity mapping across the command area
Relevant services
What agriculture clients commission
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Working in agriculture?
Send us the site, the area and what the data has to support. We respond within one working day - and if the method you asked for will not hit your accuracy target, we will say so before you commit.