"I suppose it will be different in each case, depending on coverage, type of crop, crop stage, etc. What is important is to first clarify the final goal of doing such thing as going to the field with tools, otherwise you would´t know which tools to…"
"They are both thermal images of a same field, 200 miles west from Buenos Aires Argentina.
The first one was taken in Nov 2015, the strip effect that you can see, which is not easy to see or quantify from the ground, it is due to an uneven…"
"Interesting topic. I would add the questions: why would you want to assess plant growth? what do you plan to do (different) after you have this information?
See attached a couple of ground truth pictures on wheat and corn:"
"@Ben, excuse me, but I don´t agree that Darius Jack is exaggerating. I am not in favour of manned vs. unmanned, but I think his estimation is pretty accurate given the little information we have about this project.
It surprises me reading everyone…"
"@RG, can you explain which are your goals? Which crops? Is it a single flight, or you paln to conduct a series? What is exactly you want to see in the images?"
"Is it true that higher resolution is always better? Should the question be: What resolution is good enough? What about the tradeoff: resolution/acquisition cost/agronomic value?"
"Good info Pat, I would be curious in what exactly and how (format, platform, email? cloud?) is that the airplane service delivers, when, what the user does with the info, and how does he capture value. "
"Interesting discussion, it all ends up in the value equation, and this has been broadly spoken, but I´ve seen not much proof in practice. For now, and on the agronomy side, I see no much more that drone imagery just being a "help" for farmers or…"