DJI Mavic Pro Platinum and AgroCam Multispectural Kit
Wings Aerial Applicators offers drone agricultural imagery and analysis. Utilizing drones for imagery is an incredible tool for analyzing fields and gathering data that you can use in conjuction with ground-truthing and scouting to act on quickly and know you are making an informed decision. We have several license drone operators and do in-house imagery analysis.
There’s no better or more accurate way to assess the magnitude of an issue in the field then from the air. Also, with the use of near-infrared imagery, we can identify conditions before they are visible to the naked eye.
Here is what data we can provide you using drone imagery analysis:
Accurate plant count and size for an entire field
Plant health and nutrient deficient areas
Early detection of specific problems like ferry ring or rust
Prescription maps for variable rate applications
Measure size of specific zones in a field that have a problem
Early detection of plant stressors
Detection of insect and animal damage
Field drainage issues
Equipment damage in the field
Identify storm or wind damage and acreage
Calculate plant maturity
Accurate field acreage and elevation maps
How it works:
Just like a spray or fertilizer job, you can call our team and provide us the field maps for the areas you want to be analyzed. If you have a specific problem you are trying to target, we will focus on that durring the analysis.
One of our licensed drone operators will visit your field. The drone autonomously flies a profile taking high res images, both visual and near infrared (multispectural).
The images are uploaded into a software platform called PrecisionHawk, one of the industry leading ag analysis software programs. From here, we can analyze the images using a slew of proven algorithms and vegetation indices.
We then take those results, and deliver them to you in a comprehensive report.
Example of an NDVI survey map. In this image you can see several problems that can be identified and quantified. There are drainage issues putting strain on the crop, and although this might be evident from the ground, we can acurately determine the exact acreage that is effected. Also identifyable is the variation in plant health in alternating rows, identifying a potential equipment, planting, or fertilizing issue. There are also isolated areas that have strain on the crop like the area on the east side of the field. Using other overlays like elevation, plant count, and the orthomosaic, we can identify if these are potentually due to animals, insects, fungus, nutrition, drainage, equipment damage, etc.