Nobody likes getting a shot - but even plants might need them sometimes. MIT researchers are exploring ways to administer injections to plants with drones. As described in the original article plants, much like people, get sick. The treatment traditionally involves the spread of chemicals designed to mitigate or alleviate the disease. Spreading or spraying chemicals … [Read more...] about Giving Tomatoes Their Shots: The Future of Plant Medicine May Come From Drones
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DELAIR and BASF Partner to Advance Agricultural Research with Drone Data
"It is important for startups to pursue their business, given the current global situation," writes Delair's Laurence Collet. We couldn't agree more. In a far from normal environment, business still continue to form partnerships that will drive both the drone industry and other sectors forward, contributing to innovative solutions for the problems the world faces. This … [Read more...] about DELAIR and BASF Partner to Advance Agricultural Research with Drone Data
The Best Pairing for Wine May be a Drone
With a wide and global customer base, drone mapping platform DroneDeploy is continually identifying new uses for drone technology. Precision agriculture was one of the early adopters of drone technology: and now, more vineyards are adopting drones to make better wine. It's not the romantic view of the wine industry pictured on travel brochures, but drones are helping growers … [Read more...] about The Best Pairing for Wine May be a Drone
Enterprise Scale: DJI Introduces New P4 Multispectral for Precision Agriculture and Land Management
At DJI Airworks this morning, DJI announced a new integrated tool to take precision agriculture to the next level: the P4 Multispectral, a totally integrated multispectral imaging drone. Jan Gasparic, DJI's Director of Strategic Partnerships, told a group of media professionals yesterday that the new offering represents a push forward in precision agriculture. "Historically, … [Read more...] about Enterprise Scale: DJI Introduces New P4 Multispectral for Precision Agriculture and Land Management
Can Drones Compete with Satellite Images? How BVLOS Will Change Global Agriculture
At this week's InterDrone conference in Las Vegas, Michael Ritter of SlantRange gave a great presentation - and explained how drones may be able to completely revolutionize global agriculture. Imagine aerial data that can tell you much, much more than which areas of your fields are planted and relatively healthy or the standard analysis received from comparing crops to … [Read more...] about Can Drones Compete with Satellite Images? How BVLOS Will Change Global Agriculture
