DRONELIFE originally published this article in 2014 - this article has been completely updated from the original as of 2017. While drones are spreading into industries from warehousing to oil exploration, precision agriculture remains one of the most robust segments of the market. The ROI for drones in agriculture is compelling: and farms of every size are taking advantage … [Read more...] about The 7 Best Agricultural Drones on the Market: Our Updated List
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Intel Capital Joins PrecisionHawk’s Series B
(Source: media.precisionhawk.com) PrecisionHawk, which uses a small, lightweight UAV [Unmanned Aerial Vehicle] and cloud-based software to collect, process and analyze aerial data, today announced that Intel Capital has joined its previously announced Series B funding round of $10 million. The new investor announced its participation at the Intel Capital Global Summit, … [Read more...] about Intel Capital Joins PrecisionHawk’s Series B
The 7 Best Agricultural Drones on the Market Today
Check out the updated version of this post: https://dronelife.com/2015/10/14/7-best-agricultural-drones-market/ It's no secret drones are becoming increasingly popular on America's farms. As demand for drone data rises, so too do the number of companies that can provide it. Despite the FAA's supposed restriction on the use of agricultural drones, the space is attracting more … [Read more...] about The 7 Best Agricultural Drones on the Market Today
Drones Take to the Agricultural Skies
(Source: gereports.ca) Today’s drone technology promises a bumper crop of rich data for farmers, ecologists, ranchers and scientists Advances in drone technology are literally soaring, and the agriculture and sustainability sectors are poised to benefit. Shedding their battlefield and pizza delivery reputations, drones are taking off as precise collectors of valuable … [Read more...] about Drones Take to the Agricultural Skies
Hyperspectral Drones See ‘Down to the Grape’
from optics.org The word itself might conjure up images of remote military operations and modern warfare, but drones – more formally referred to as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) - are capable of many civilian applications. And they are increasingly being deployed in combination with state-of-the-art photonics technology for a variety of innovative agricultural … [Read more...] about Hyperspectral Drones See ‘Down to the Grape’
