Precision Drone Surveys for UK Agriculture: Boost Yields, Cut Costs, Detect Issues
Farming is evolving, and drone technology is at the heart of this transformation.
Low Altitude provides field mapping and crop health drone surveys for all growers, from agricultural farms to orchards. Using the latest sensor technology mounted on drones, multispectral images can be obtained, processed and analysed quickly, allowing growers to make rapid and effective decisions.
Our drone-powered precision agriculture solutions are making a profound impact on farm management by:
1. Optimizing Crop Yields
Drones equipped with advanced sensors capture high-resolution multispectral imagery of your fields, crop scouting for you. This data provides valuable insights into the health of your crops, enabling early detection of issues such as pest infestations, disease outbreaks, or nutrient deficiencies. With this information, you can take targeted actions to maximize your crop yields.
2. Reducing Resource Wastage
Precision agriculture is all about doing more with less. Farm drones allow you to precisely monitor farm conditions, water usage, and fertilizer application. By optimizing these variables, you can reduce resource wastage and minimize your environmental footprint, while simultaneously lowering production costs. We can provide targeted application maps for your smart farm machinery, saving you time and money.
3. Increasing Overall Profitability
The ultimate goal of all farmers is to increase their profitability. Drones play a pivotal role in achieving this. By making data-driven decisions based on the insights generated by drone technology, you can make strategic choices that significantly boost your bottom line.
Whether it's adjusting planting density, monitoring livestock, or identifying potential problems, the impact on your farm's profitability is undeniable.
What is Multispectral Imaging?
Plants naturally reflect light in differing degrees, depending on chlorophyll absorption. Multispectral sensors view light in the normal visual range that our eyes can see, as well as additional bands that are invisible to us, such as near-infrared. By measuring the canopy reflectance values we are able to reliably detect stressed vegetation before it becomes visible to the eye; often around 3 days beforehand!
Multispectral images are processed through a range of vegetation indexes, which give clear insight into vine stress or photosynthetic activity. Surveys can detect the early onset of disease such as Powdery Mildew before it spreads to the rest of the crop. Images are further complimented by satellite data layers indicating water content, providing yet deeper insight into vine health.
As a drone can cover a lot more acreage in a shorter period of time than traditional scouting, you save time and cost by reducing the need for visual inspection of every row. Areas of interest can be targeted for a 'boots on the ground' view of a specific area highlighted by the drone report. Further savings can also be made through the application of water or fertilizer to drone-targeted, GPS marked areas; great for your bottom line as well as the environment!
Monthly surveys enable growers to constantly monitor their vineyard health and protect future yields.
What is the service?
• Mission planning
• Survey flight(s)
• Post processing and analysis
• Comprehensive PDF report with highlighted areas of interest
Results
It's critical to receive the results in a timely manner, so that you can take any action you deem needed based on the post-survey analysis. Therefore, we will normally provide results within 36 hours; in most cases the results are actually provided within 24 hours!
How much does it cost?
Agricultural mapping surveys are competitively and simply priced to enable integration with your current management processes. Choose a one-off survey to obtain a 'current state', or opt for monthly monitoring surveys across the growing season. With no monthly subscriptions, you are truly in charge of your costs.
We charge a 'per site visit' rate of £260 plus a low 'per hectare' rate, depending on level of detail required. We provide surveys across the South, including Hampshire, Dorset, Wiltshire, West and East Sussex. Please contact us for a specific quote.
Call us on 02382 146615
Email us at hello@lowaltitude.co.uk
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