When you think of farming, you typically think of horses, plows, and tractors, right? Today’s farms are becoming high tech centers. It is predicted that the use of agricultural drones will increase at a compound annual growth rate of 30 percent between 2016 and 2022. This means that drones may well outnumber tractors on the farm one day soon.
Farmers are utilizing drones equipped with infrared cameras to monitor irrigation patterns, map soil variations or even detect pest and fungal infestations. This type of imagery can be collected with satellites, but farmers are finding that drones are less expensive and, when combined with the proper software, more accurate. In addition to imagery, drones have the capacity to delivery chemical “spot treatments” very precisely to areas that need it. This means less waste of the chemicals on the areas that don’t.
Currently there are both fixed wing and multi-rotor options for agricultural drones. Both types serve a different set of requirements.
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