Agriculture Drones

Prince Charles Talks Drones with GeoAerospace by DRONELIFE Staff Writer Ian M. Crosby On March 24th, His Royal Highness, Prince Charles traveled to Ireland, where he met with experts in agricultural innovation, with representatives from Teagasc, Glanbia PLC, Bord Bia & GeoAerospace. GeoAerospace drone display at Shane Fitzgerald’s farm, Co. …

Zena Drone has helped revolutionize the burgeoning hemp industry.  In this guest post, Leah Jacobe outlines five ways that intelligent drones in the agriculture sector are helping growers to meet the demands of global food production. The following is a guest post by Leah Jacobe, Media Team Leader at Zena …

Small manufacturer of crop spraying drones takes on big competition By Jim Magill Mark Twain once said, “Buy land; they’re not making it anymore.” If he were alive today, he probably would have added that buyers of agricultural land should also look into using drone technology in order to improve the …

DJI’s agriculture drone for crop spraying, the DJI AGRAS T20, makes agricultural spraying easier, smarter, and safer. Crop spraying by drone, while not widely legal in the U.S., has been adopted elsewhere around the world.  As agricultural drones get easier to fly and ever more automated, crop spraying by drone …

royalty-free image, Pikrepo A new research report by Meticulous Research predicts that droens in agriculture will be worth more than $5 Billion by 2025. Agriculture has been a major sector for the commercial drone industry for several years. Now, new sensors and technology have made the value proposition for drones …

Credit: Mark Stone/University of Washington It’s the ultimate solution to the problem of drone flight endurance – harnessing mother nature’s power.  Researchers from the University of Washington have put a tiny sensor backpack on bees to gather aerial data. Bees are more important to farming that you might have imagined.  …

In October of 2017, we published a story about DroneDeploy‘s huge growth: “In just this year, the company has mapped more than 25 million acres, representing an area larger than the country of Iceland. They’ve processed 40 million images in 2017, create thousands of maps every day, and have processed …

Leading business drone producer senseFly is shifting to Raleigh, North Carolina – and becoming a member of a rising cluster of drone and aerospace enterprise, together with business drone options supplier PrecisionHawk.  With glorious academic establishments offering the expertise, a quickly rising metropolis and a booming tech panorama, Raleigh has …

The following is a joint press launch from Parrot and AIRINOV. Agriculture is a key and fast-growing business in Africa and Parrot, the main European drone group, is  providing enterprise options, together with drones, software program and providers, to professionals of this enterprise sector. Parrot-AIRINOV teamed up with CTA (The …

Gilles Labossière Leading business drone producer senseFly has introduced on the Executive VP and COO of senseFly’s mother or father firm Parrot Group, Gilles Labossière, as CEO.  Labossière will proceed to carry his place in Parrot Group as he takes the reins at senseFly. senseFly is well-known for its fixed-wing …