Parrot, the French high tech company best known for its consumer drones, has invested another $7 million in MicaSense a Seattle based firm that develops remote sensing solutions for the agriculture market. This brings Parrot's total investment in MicaSense to $9 million. MicaSense received $2 million in funding from Parrot in 2014. Yesterday Parrot announced Sequoia, a … [Read more...] about Parrot Invests Another $7 Million in MicaSense
Agriculture
Parrot Makes Push into Commercial Drone Space with Sequoia
Parrot, the Paris-based technology company with a portfolio of drones targeted at the consumer market, is making a significant push into the commercial drone market. The spearhead of this effort is Sequoia, a multispectral sensor targeted at the agriculture market. But there is more to it than that. Parrot has been investing in and / or buying a number of firms with … [Read more...] about Parrot Makes Push into Commercial Drone Space with Sequoia
Pix4D and Parrot Team for Agriculture Solution
Pix4D, a provider of professional image processing software, has teamed with Parrot to create precision agriculture solution Pix4Dmapper Ag: a photogrammetric software that converts multispectral images into agriculture-specific maps for better crop management and analysis. Pix4DmapperAg is being released in conjunction with Sequoia: a multispectral sensor from Parrot designed … [Read more...] about Pix4D and Parrot Team for Agriculture Solution
John Deere to offer Sentera’s Agricultural Drone Services
Sentera, LLC, a global provider of software, sensors, and drone technologies to the agriculture industry, is now a John Deere Operations Center Production Partner. John Deere's dealer and customer network now have access to a variety of Sentera's innovative agriculture solutions including AgVault™ Software, precision sensors, and fixed-wing and quadcopter agriculture scouting … [Read more...] about John Deere to offer Sentera’s Agricultural Drone Services
App from Measure Assesses ROI of Agricultural Drones
Earlier this month, Measure, a major drone operator, released the a Drone Flight Calculator to assist farmers with assessing the value of using their "Drone as a Service" in their agriculture operations. The web-based calculator comes out of a study and flight operations conducted with the American Farm Bureau Federation in 2015. The app, which is free, allows farmers to input … [Read more...] about App from Measure Assesses ROI of Agricultural Drones
