Category Archives: Agriculture

AeroVironment Donates 87 Quantix Drones to 35 US University Agriculture Departments

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 AeroVironment, Inc.  announced its 2019 Quantix and AV DSS University Collaboration Project. The project’s focus is to advance academic research, applications and crop production practices to improve the future of farming through the use of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) and advanced data analytics. Continue reading

Drones Help Farmers Save an Endangered US River

United States Department of Agriculture engineering technician Kevin Yemoto guides a drone into the air at a research farm northeast of Greeley, Colorado

A drone soared over a blazing hot cornfield in northeastern Colorado on a recent morning, snapping images with an infrared camera to help researchers decide how much water they would give the crops the next day. Continue reading

Israeli and Brazilian Joint Project for Modular Precision Swarming Crop Spraying Drone Solution

To overcome productivity issues common to maximum take off weight regulation found in many countries regarding UAV Crop Spraying, multiple automated collaborating drones are a solution. This technology requires knowledge of swarming and collision avoidance algorithms and experience in developing and operating Crop Spraying UAVs.
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