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Aerial Photograph for agriculture purposes

Posted by Cala on July 16, 2012 at 3:35pm

Hello, my name is Alejandrina, I'm Ingenieer in agronomy production from Argentine I' m an Ardupilot happy owner for my new Skywalker, I'm newbie with RC and autopilot, my idea is to obtain aerial photos of the crops to help me to decide fertilization in presicion agriculture; my english is very bad but I'm going to try to participate in this very useful forum.

Here's my New plane on It's first day

Here you can see the Ardu and the minim in the top and the Dragon downside

Finally the minim moves in front of the plane fro interferences with gps

I have to decide how to attach the compact camera

For the moment I attached the camera like this

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Zita August 4, 2016 at 2:26am

Hi guys,

I need a small size camera for agricultural mapping and I found these:

http://www.agrocam.eu/

They look good: low cost, native 16MP sensor, shutter triggering by flight controller.

Do you have experience on them?
Cala August 3, 2016 at 6:00pm

Gracias Joe, muy interesante la pag

Joe Fernandez said:

Hola Cala si ocupas una plataforma para processar imagenes y una interfase para presentar a clientes checa esta compania... el enfoque es agricultura de precision

https://farmsolutions.com/
Joe Fernandez August 3, 2016 at 5:24pm

Hola Cala si ocupas una plataforma para processar imagenes y una interfase para presentar a clientes checa esta compania... el enfoque es agricultura de precision

https://farmsolutions.com/

FarmSolutions

FarmSolutions. Simple, Affordable and powerful
Cala July 28, 2016 at 6:20am

How new looks my plane in that photo :O , now it have four years and two crashes poor guy :D .
Dennis Cane July 28, 2016 at 1:32am

This is positive use of drones for agriculture.
Gabor H April 26, 2016 at 2:55am

Hi Guys,

I'm new to this NDVI imagery. Therefore asking "dumb" question. How do you apply spraying corrections to the mapped fields when you've an analyzed NDVI map? How will farmers apply additional fertilizer on the filed? From farmers side a GPS guidance equipped machines always a must?

Thanks,
- Tomas > Gabor H April 27, 2016 at 10:57am
  
  Check the AgLeader website. There's pretty much everything there is regarding GPS guidance and precision agriculture consoles for machinery
- Cala > Gabor H April 26, 2016 at 6:22am
  
  Ideally you need machinery with gps and a device for variable aplication, you generate a prescription map and the sprayer, etc. do it.
Cala April 3, 2014 at 5:19pm

Ok Tomas
- Patrick Coyle > Cala April 18, 2014 at 10:44pm
  Mi Espanol es pobre, so I'll post in English.
  
  There is a very active user group and community on this and other topics at Public Lab (http://publiclab.org)
  
  There is a list for just this topic at: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/plots-infrared
  
  They've done a Kickstarter: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/publiclab/infragram-the-infrar... offering, "... a simple, cheap infrared camera which can measure plant health -- for geek gardeners, farmers, and open source DIY scientists.
  
  Also folks are actively modifying cheap cameras (mostly Canon point and shoot models that run CHDK) to be able to get NDVI.
  
  I've been trying to learn to do this for a while - mostly with kites and ballooons, but wanting to get into UAVs (for intervalometer and ability to synch multiple camera capabilities).
  
  For some of my results see: http://publiclab.org/profile/patcoyle
  
  Here is another NDVI example: http://publiclab.org/notes/patcoyle/11-1-2012/results-simple-aerial...
  
  Another, done with 2-camera rig: http://publiclab.org/map/ag-park-sunol-california-ndvi/2011-09-24
  
  One of the key improvements is moving to single camera filtering that enables capture of adequate info for NDVI.
  
  In summary, you don't have to spend a lot of money to do this.
  
  Thanks, Pat