you know farmers yeah we’re out you know
we’re digging in the dirt always to use
a shovel I gotta sell a little back my
picked up but I started here I’ve never
thought our tractors will be steering
themselves and UAVs are just the next
evolution that technology
we have a decrease in amount of land
base for farming and we have more people
in the world every day so we have to do
better at what we do farm wise so UAVs
are a natural extension of increasing
yield and quality of the products that
we grow
so you maybe could fly the field spot
areas in the field that have butyl
infestation which you would not see at
7,000 feet on the fixed-wing aircraft
and then you could come across that
field with any number of different ways
to apply insecticide only to those very
small areas that have the beetles one of
the big things that is a misconception
is that all drones are the same or that
only quad copters are drones or
something to that effect and really what
we’re talking about is aerial robotics
and aerial robotics is about deploying
devices to actually go do useful work
and our system is different in that it’s
actually tailored to agriculture
agriculture is the work that we’re in
it’s the space that we’re in and so you
have to actually design the system all
the way from the aerodynamics to the
cameras to the data in a particular way
our system all up is about 4.7 pounds
can fly up to an hour cover up to 800
acres has a near-infrared camera onboard
and visible camera and the ability
actually to utilize thermal cameras as
well
some crops like blueberries were putting
in you know you can take a drone or UAV
today and fly over individual rows and
you can pick out plants but then you put
it on a crop like potatoes you know you
go from 1517 air plants per acre to
potatoes that have twenty six twenty
seven thousand thirty thousand plants on
our seed farm and then it’s a whole
different problem because you’re the
amount of data that you’re handling is
huge and to be able to pick out an
individual plant that’s on you know six
or seven is facing versus two and a half
foot spacing there’s a lot of work
that’s got to be done growers have to
spend money to make money because of the
high yields out here you have to use
fertilizer you have to use water you
have to do these things but you got to
use it right you’ve got to use it and
they do but every way we can save on
their use of their dollars save use a
little bit less nitrogen use a little
less pesticide a little less water every
time we do that we are increasing the
opportunity for yields because we’re
keeping those plants healthier longer
and in so being will allow us then to be
able to feed a very hungry world
you
we’re digging in the dirt always to use
a shovel I gotta sell a little back my
picked up but I started here I’ve never
thought our tractors will be steering
themselves and UAVs are just the next
evolution that technology
we have a decrease in amount of land
base for farming and we have more people
in the world every day so we have to do
better at what we do farm wise so UAVs
are a natural extension of increasing
yield and quality of the products that
we grow
so you maybe could fly the field spot
areas in the field that have butyl
infestation which you would not see at
7,000 feet on the fixed-wing aircraft
and then you could come across that
field with any number of different ways
to apply insecticide only to those very
small areas that have the beetles one of
the big things that is a misconception
is that all drones are the same or that
only quad copters are drones or
something to that effect and really what
we’re talking about is aerial robotics
and aerial robotics is about deploying
devices to actually go do useful work
and our system is different in that it’s
actually tailored to agriculture
agriculture is the work that we’re in
it’s the space that we’re in and so you
have to actually design the system all
the way from the aerodynamics to the
cameras to the data in a particular way
our system all up is about 4.7 pounds
can fly up to an hour cover up to 800
acres has a near-infrared camera onboard
and visible camera and the ability
actually to utilize thermal cameras as
well
some crops like blueberries were putting
in you know you can take a drone or UAV
today and fly over individual rows and
you can pick out plants but then you put
it on a crop like potatoes you know you
go from 1517 air plants per acre to
potatoes that have twenty six twenty
seven thousand thirty thousand plants on
our seed farm and then it’s a whole
different problem because you’re the
amount of data that you’re handling is
huge and to be able to pick out an
individual plant that’s on you know six
or seven is facing versus two and a half
foot spacing there’s a lot of work
that’s got to be done growers have to
spend money to make money because of the
high yields out here you have to use
fertilizer you have to use water you
have to do these things but you got to
use it right you’ve got to use it and
they do but every way we can save on
their use of their dollars save use a
little bit less nitrogen use a little
less pesticide a little less water every
time we do that we are increasing the
opportunity for yields because we’re
keeping those plants healthier longer
and in so being will allow us then to be
able to feed a very hungry world
you
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