Agriculture

2-D and 3-D Mapping

Mapping is the perfect tool for farmers and ranchers who want to get a detailed look at their land. You can create topographic models of your fields, determine crop height, water pooling, and identify risk areas. Mapping makes it easy to optimize your land for agriculture production.

Real time drone maps allow for more accurate crop monitoring.  While satellite maps may be out of date, drone maps provide an up to the minute look at potential problem areas.  This leads to an effective IPM plan.

Volare Drone innovations produces extremely accurate models of landscapes and structures using 3D point-cloud and mesh models.

Drone surveying is a fast, accurate, and cost-effective alternative to traditional surveying. Drone usage drastically reduces the time spent collecting data, and a single flight can produce millions of data points that would take a team of humans weeks to gather. Not only is this method far more efficient and cost-effective than older forms of surveying, but the safety risks involved in surveying are drastically reduced – less time in the field means that there’s less risk to surveying teams in steep or unstable areas. We can apply georeferencing techniques to create standalone thermal maps and orthomosaics that combine both conventional photographs and thermal images.

Do you need to create a 3D model of your project, site or structure? Drone mapping and survey is the perfect tool for the job. Our drones can quickly create a detailed map of even the largest sites. So whether you're planning an investment or just want to show off your work, our drone mapping and survey service will get the job done quickly and professionally. With Orthorectified imaging, you can easily create 3d Maps of your project. This allows you to plan and design more effectively, and also provides a valuable marketing tool for promoting your work off-site.

Crop Monitoring

Data Insights

Volare Drone Innovations provides unique insights to vegetation growth, and our crop and plot trial research programs deliver timely, and accurate assessments based on high-resolution aerial imagery that can only be obtained using sensors flown at low altitudes by unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or “drones.”

Monitoring Field Conditions

Volare Drone Innovations provides unique insights to vegetation growth, and our crop and plot trial research programs deliver timely, and accurate assessments based on high-resolution aerial imagery that can only be obtained using sensors flown at low altitudes by unmanned aerial systems (UAS), or “drones.”

Keep your crops healthy and thriving with our Crop Monitoring service. With regular updates on your crop yields and health, you'll be able to ensure that your crops are in the best possible condition. Measure crop counts and Soil Temperatures to get a complete picture of your crops' health Mapping can be done at any time during the crop cycle, regardless of field conditions or accessibility.  Field maps can then be used by an agronomist to prescribe treatment.

RGB & Multispectral Imaging

RGB & multispectral imaging allows access to different indices, such as measure of irrigation, detection of nutrient deficiencies, and identification of areas affected by pests, weeds, and disease.

Monitoring Plant Health

Have you ever wondered if your crops were healthy? Wonder no more with NDVI scans from the air! This technology detects indicators of plant health invisible to the naked eye, so you can be sure that your crops are getting all the nutrients they need. Utilization of the Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) allows for evaluation of photosynthetic activity, biomass, plant and soil moisture, and plant stress.

• Improve irrigation efficiency
• Optimize fertilization plans
• Forecast yields more accurately
• Identify plants to be culled
• Target pesticides applications
• Improve field labor deployment

Aerial-based thermal imaging has also become an important tool for agricultural management. It is a non-invasive way to monitor crops, nurseries and greenhouses and even detect plant disease.

Aerial assessments and data gathering within the farming sector provides key information such as:

• Plant Vigor
• Plant Stress
• Plant Counts
• Field Uniformity
• Plant Height
• Other Variables

This information can be used to predict the need for fertilizer inputs, irrigation modifications, peak harvest, overall crop health, and ultimate, crop yield/value. Industrial farmers can now leverage these technologies, since they allow for better business decisions relating to agricultural issues.

Plant Vigor Assessment & Identification

This information can be used to predict the need for fertilizer inputs, irrigation modifications, peak harvest, overall crop health, and ultimate, crop yield/value. Industrial farmers can now leverage these technologies, since they allow for better business decisions relating to agricultural issues.

1. Quickly identify area of stress
2. Review ground-truth with your agronomist
3. Convert agronomist diagnosis into an action plan

Drone Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI)

Determine the health of surrounding vegetation.

Active Drone Solutions pilots perform NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index). NDVI is useful in a number of industries and the sensors help Agriculture, Construction, and Oil & Gas projects assess their impact on the surrounding vegetation and determine its health. By using near-infrared light to measure spectral reflectance off of plants, NDVI sensors can provide a quantitative index of vegetation greenness or vigor.

Farmers use NDVI's to assess the health of their crops, determining which areas might require more water, fertilizer, or pesticides. Construction operations can use NDVI's to measure the operation’s impacts on nearby vegetation. Understanding how they are affecting the nearby vegetation is extremely important in reclamation efforts.

Keep your crops healthy and thriving with our Crop Monitoring service. With regular updates on your crop yields and health, you'll be able to ensure that your crops are in the best possible condition. Measure crop counts, H20 Levels and Soil Temperatures to get a complete picture of your crops' health.

Clorophyll

Plants will often exhibit signature characteristics when they are stressed, thriving, dying, blooming, or infected. These signatures may not always be visible to the human eye; however, they will usually have a strong correlation to the content of chlorophyll within the photosynthetically active regions of plants. Healthy plants normally have greater chlorophyll content in their leaves than unhealthy plants.

Near Infrared & Red Edge

Plants with high amounts of chlorophyll within their reflective structures will reflect a greater percentage of near-infrared and red edge light wavelengths emitted from the Sun than plants with lower amounts of chlorophyll. Therefore, in many cases, the amount of reflected near-infrared and red edge light that is reflected off a crop can be used as a marker to help quantify characteristics associated with the health of a plant.