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Mapping Software for Precision Agriculture
As a farmer, you know the ins and outs of your farm, how it breaths, when it thrives, and when it’s in distress. With boots on ground and hand-tending, your eyes are trained to notice every important detail.
But what about the things that your eye isn’t trained to see, simply because our human eye can’t see certain wavelengths? And what if those wavelengths tell an invisible story about your farm health?
Plants reflect different amounts of red, green blue, red edge (RE) and near infra-red (NIR) light, that heavily depend on the state they are in, as well as their concentration and distribution of biochemical components.
The multispectral images the sensor captures are used to create vegetation indices like the most commonly used NDVI (normalized difference vegetation index). Each index tells a different story about the source of a plant’s distress. In many cases, these indices become an essential layer of information in crop protection and crop production, but they are also used for insurance, general farm management and more.
Additionally, the term ‘less is more’ in agriculture is closely connected to drones and sensors. Knowing where to put ‘more’ or ‘less’ fertilizer, pesticide, herbicide…or even water, comes directly from Variable Rate Maps, derived from crop health and vegetation indices. This reduces cost, increases yield and improves the soil and crop quality overall. Saving money is always a plus, but saving while getting better yields and improving your farm health is priceless.
While hand-tending of small scale farms is manageable, it is about using your knowledge of the farm, and taking it to a next level by using tools that make the invisible, visible.
Precision Agriculture
Drone mapping can provide your investment with a rich amount of data that can be used to make more informed decisions about issues like crop reseeding and targeted nutrient applications.
Maximize your income by focussing in on the exact requirements that our specific to your crops using accurate index maps.
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NDVI / NDRE
Index maps combine information from the reflectance maps to highlight plant health differences that are directly or indirectly related to issues such as water stress, nutrient deficiencies, pests or more.
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Orthomosaics
High resolution aerial maps made from RGB images, with corrected perspective and uniform scale, give you geographic data from an aerial perspective.
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Application maps
Maps that aggregate and visualize the values derived from your index maps. Exported as a shapefile (*.shp), they can be directly imported into farm-specific equipment for later application in the field.
