It is difficult to achieve effective farming without a knowledge of accurate area and location of each field. It is hard to overestimate the value of up-to date high resolution aerial imager. It brings information about crop health, soil conditions and even the current state of drainage tile system to the table. Our cutting edge technologies will provide you with vital data for efficient decision making, reducing expenses and raising yields.
Land inventory and surveying
Actual size data for every field is the key for successful costs management. Every miscounted hectare leads to erroneous seeds, fertilizers, pesticides and fuel cost assessment. This will also end up with inaccurate yield estimation. Aerial surveying with UAV is much more productive than traditional land observations. You can obtain thousands of hectares of highly accurate imagery of your fields per day, just at a fraction of a manned services cost. Our UAV systems provide images with spatial resolution better than a satellite can offer. You will always get great results despite any cloud cover. The level of image detalization (fine image quality) allows detection of accurate fields shape and area, real land use and land cover, crop types and patterns, erosion, tillage issues and even plant height.
Crop health monitoring
NDVI maps along with high resolution RGB images are a great source of valuable information about the current crop health situation. Vegetation index maps are also often used for identification of homogeneous fertility zones. These data help to create prescriptions for planting, chemical treating, watering and fertilizing. Knowing the location of homogeneous fertility zones, you will be able optimize soil sampling for physical or chemical content and pest issues. Taking samples at specific points of interest, instead of regular grid, decreases the number of pieces and reduces the impact of random factors on analysis results.
Using GIS Sputnik, you can create and visualize NDVI maps, calculate histograms for particular areas and perform classification with simultaneous vectorization. Export to CSV, txt and shapefile formats is available.
Real time supervision of agricultural activities
UAVs from BC company can be equipped with optional payload for real time video monitoring. This is very useful for harvest control, machinery supervision and unauthorized loads prevention.
Agricultural insurance
Our technology allows accurate overall crop state assessment throughout the season. Detailed 3D models provide reliable volume measurements, for example of sugar beets or wheat open piles. Such data will help you with insurance costs estimation, risk management and damage assessment in case of insured event.
