By DRONELIFE Features Editor Jim Magill With the holiday season in full swing, many people are looking forward to a turkey dinner with all the trimmings. However, with agricultural labor shortages and other rising costs, turkey growers are finding themselves hard-pressed to keep this staple of the festive meal affordable for the average family. A new study released by a … [Read more...] about Researchers Use Drones, AI Tools to Study Turkey Behavior
Agriculture
Delair and Geosys Partner on Precision Agriculture
French enterprise drone manufacturer and aerial data provider Delair and Geosys, a specialist in satellite and weather data analytics for agriculture, have announced a partnership to expand data gathering and analysis in precision farming. The result of the partnership will be a single analytics platform that integrates drone and satellite data for agriculture companies … [Read more...] about Delair and Geosys Partner on Precision Agriculture
Drone Funding: Paper Planes Ventures Flies $2M to Aerobotics
South African drone startup Aerobotics knows that paper airplanes are more than just childhood toys. The up-and-coming firm just received a $2 million boost in VC funding from Johannesburg-based Paper Planes Ventures. The Series A expansion brings the Paper Plane’s total investment to $4 million, an Aerobotics statement noted last week. “We are grateful that Paper Plane … [Read more...] about Drone Funding: Paper Planes Ventures Flies $2M to Aerobotics
The Ultimate Solution to Battery Endurance: Researchers Put Drone ‘Backpack’ on Bees to Help Gather Data for Farming
It's the ultimate solution to the problem of drone flight endurance - harnessing mother nature's power. Researchers from the University of Washington have put a tiny sensor backpack on bees to gather aerial data. Bees are more important to farming that you might have imagined. According to the 2004 USDA piece titled, "Bee Benefits to Agriculture" the USDA tells us that … [Read more...] about The Ultimate Solution to Battery Endurance: Researchers Put Drone ‘Backpack’ on Bees to Help Gather Data for Farming
Drones are Being Enlisted to Tackle Colombia’s Cocaine Farms
We're not quite at the stage at which drones are taking an active role in day to day agriculture. Despite hardware releases from DJI and other manufacturers with a view to autonomously sowing seeds and dispensing pesticides, most drone applications on the farm are more passive in nature: field mapping, crop health checks, that sort of thing. However, the Colombian government … [Read more...] about Drones are Being Enlisted to Tackle Colombia’s Cocaine Farms
