Agricultural drone surveys

Farming is evolving, and aerial drone technology is at the heart of this transformation. 

Low Altitude provides field mapping and crop health drone surveys for all growers, from agricultural farms to orchards. Using the latest sensor technology mounted on drones, multispectral images can be obtained, processed and analysed quickly, allowing growers to make rapid and effective decisions.

We're excited to share how our drone-powered solutions are making a profound impact on farm management:

1. Optimizing Crop Yields

Drones equipped with advanced sensors capture high-resolution multispectral imagery of your fields, crop scouting for you. This data provides valuable insights into the health of your crops, enabling early detection of issues such as pest infestations, disease outbreaks, or nutrient deficiencies. With this information, you can take targeted actions to maximize your crop yields.

2. Reducing Resource Wastage

Precision agriculture is all about doing more with less. Farm drones allow you to precisely monitor farm conditions, water usage, and fertilizer application. By optimizing these variables, you can reduce resource wastage and minimize your environmental footprint, while simultaneously lowering production costs. We can provide targeted application maps for your smart farm machinery, saving you time and money.

3. Increasing Overall Profitability

The ultimate goal of all farmers is to increase their profitability. Drones play a pivotal role in achieving this. By making data-driven decisions based on the insights generated by drone technology, you can make strategic choices that significantly boost your bottom line. Whether it's adjusting planting density, monitoring livestock, or identifying potential problems, the impact on your farm's profitability is undeniable.

Plants naturally reflect light in differing degrees, depending on chlorophyll absorption. Multispectral sensors view light in the normal visual range that our eyes can see, as well as additional bands that are invisible to us, such as near-infrared. By measuring the crop reflectance values we are able to reliably detect stressed crops before it becomes visible to the eye; often around 3 days beforehand!

Multispectral images are processed through a range of vegetation indexes such as NDVI, which give clear insight into crop stress or photosynthetic activity. Crop surveys can detect the early onset of disease before it spreads to the rest of the crop. 

Areas of interest can be GPS tagged for a 'boots on the ground' view of a targeted area, saving time and cost by reducing the need for visual inspection of the whole field. Savings can also be made through application of water or fertiliser to only those areas highlighted by the drone.

Images are further complimented by satellite data layers indicating water content in the plant, providing deep insight into crop health.

Monthly surveys enable farmers to constantly monitor their crop health and protect future yields, whilst also making savings of up to 10% on water, fertiliser, herbicide and insecticide use.

Great for the environment, and also your bottom line!

Agricultural drone surveys are competitively and simply priced to enable integration with your current farm management processes. Your investment includes pre-planning, the crop survey flight, post-processing with area analysis and comprehensive PDF report, including any targeted application maps which are compatible with precision agriculture smart farm machinery, such as John Deere. 

Choose a one-off farm survey to obtain a 'current state', or opt for monthly crop monitoring surveys across the growing season. We don't tie you in to any subscription.

We charge a 'per visit' rate plus a low per hectare rate, with no VAT to add.

Further, we offer a 25% discount on your first survey; we believe our service will truly help you and providing an introductory price will enable you to see this first-hand.

We offer bespoke quotations for field and boundary mapping. We are pleased to offer our crop health drone surveys across Hampshire, Wiltshire. Dorset and West Sussex.

Are you ready to embrace the future of farming with agricultural drones? 

Call us now on 02382 146615 to discuss how we can help you.