Boulder, Colorado-based Agribotix is helping farmers save money and conserve water and resources in a new way: by flying drones over their fields to measure crop density, growth and many other factors.
Category Archives: Agriculture
FAA Grants First UAS Exemption for Precision Agriculture
Advanced Aviation Solutions (ADAVSO), LLC has announced its selection as the first company in the United States approved by the FAA to legally operate commercial Unmanned Aircraft Systems for precision agriculture. Continue reading
Parrot Invests $2M in Sensing Solutions for Precision Agriculture
MicaSense, a sensor and information company has raised $2M in Series A funding from Parrot. MicaSense delivers a fully integrated hardware solution for agricultural remote sensing from any unmanned aerial platform, tightly coupled with cloud-based analytics to provide crop health information to growers. The funding will enable MicaSense to expand its engineering and manufacturing capabilities to support a growing network of customers worldwide.
Peruvian, Panamanian Indians to use UAS to Protect Rainforests
Indigenous peoples of Peru and Panama plan to deploy drones to document rainforest pollution and destruction and help preserve their ancestral lands’ natural resources. Continue reading
Intel Capital Invests in PrecisionHawk
PrecisionHawk, which uses a small, lightweight UAV 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, which brings together more than 1,000 founders and CEOs from Intel Capital’s portfolio, Fortune 1000 business executives and industry leaders from around the world.
$4M Funding for Research on UAS Crop Surveillance
The Canadian Federal Government announced Tuesday that they are financially backing a new defence and aerospace innovation programme at UBC Okanagan. Minister of State for Western Economic Diversification, Michelle Rempel, was on hand to announce the $3.8 million in funding to support the establishment of the Survive and Thrive Applied Research Facility (STAR). Continue reading
AgEagle UAS Designed for Agriculture
AgEagle has shipped 125 unmanned aircraft systems designed for agricultural use to customers across the world since Jan. 1, said Bret Chilcott, a former aircraft employee who grew up on a farm near Udall.
senseFly Joins AgGateway – a Non-Profit Consortium for the Agriculture Industry
senseFly has joined AgGateway, becoming the first UAV manufacturer to join this non-profit consortium of businesses that serve the agriculture industry. As an official AgGateway member, senseFly has already joined AgGateway’s Precision Ag Council. This will allow the company to collaborate closely with other council members to help define appropriate standards, guidelines and implementation protocols, which will, in turn, improve the integration of UAV data into the precision agriculture workflow. Continue reading