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New drone technology makes crop walking more efficient
E
asy-to-use drone technolo- gy that will help farmers to walk crops more effi cient- ly is to be unveiled by Drone Ag at LAMMA.
The Skippy Scout is a crop monitoring application (app) that uses drones to automatically cap- ture images which are analysed by ground-breaking artifi cial intel- ligence (AI) to offer arable farm- ers vital broad acre crop insight. The phone-based app uses GPS and mapping software to fl y a drone to points in a fi eld selected by the farmer. Images taken by the drone provide an accurate green area index (GAI) and count emerg- ing plants. They can also identify weeds and capture insect damage on a single leaf. Drone Ag founder and farmer Jack Wrangham will be speaking
at LAMMA to explain how drones are already an essential tool for many farmers – and how over the next fi ve years drones will help provide the information to aid pre- cision farming. “Farmers have always walked their crops. However, the time to do this in the traditional way is di- minishing. As farm sizes increase and labour units per hectare de- cline, the risk of losing crops be- cause a problem has not been identifi ed quickly enough will in- crease.”
Skippy Scout offers every farm-
er the chance to see and evaluate crops easily and effi ciently using just a phone and a drone, says Mr Wrangham. “Technology is not a threat to farming, it is an aid that can save time and money,” he adds. “Adapting farming methods to
The Skippy Scout uses high resolution images to analyse crops, pests and weeds
make use of technology like Skip- py is crucial if agriculture is go- ing to provide for the world’s ev- er-growing population. We have involved hundreds of farmers as trialists and many more are wait- ing to use Skippy in 2020.” Drone Ag was able to crowd-
fund the investment needed to develop Skippy Scout and will launch the product in March 2020. A partnership with drone special- ists Heliguy will offer farmers the opportunity to lease a package of drone and software – rather than buying them outright.
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