Delivering actionable intelligence for precision agriculture.
As a commercial drone operator looking for additional work, precision agriculture is a potential revenue stream with nearly unlimited potential. Crops are literally everywhere. The driest state in the nation, Nevada, has nearly six million acres in production, yielding a harvest of $600 million each year.
If you’re anything like us here at the Roswell Flight Test Crew, however, agriculture has always seemed like a fraught proposition: It requires specialized, expensive sensors and relies on arcane types of analysis, like Normalized Diff erence Vegetation Index (NDVI)— whatever that means. My perception started to change when I met Dr. Gregory Crutsinger and he showed me how to do precision-agriculture work with my existing fl eet of drones. Together, we headed out to the Oregon wine country and spent a couple of days fl ying over vineyards, and for the very fi rst time, I really began to understand the true potential of drones in this industry.
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