Looking down on the desert vistas of the southwestern United States, an astronaut took this photograph of a short section of the Colorado River.
Trimble Establishes New Agriculture Business Solutions Group
SUNNYVALE, Calif., —Trimble (NASDAQ: TRMB) announced today that it is establishing a dedicated Business Solutions group within its Agriculture Division to support the more complex needs of agricultural leaders. The Trimble Agriculture Business Solutions group will...
DJI Introduces Company's First Agriculture Drone
DJI announced the launch of a smart, crop-spraying agricultural drone. The DJI Agras MG-1 is dustproof, water-resistant and made of anti-corrosive materials. It can be rinsed clean and folded up for easy transport and storage after use. The eight-rotor Agras can load...
DroneDeploy Announces 1 Million Acres of Drone Data
DroneDeploy, a Silicon Valley tech company that develops software for commercial drones, announced today a milestone of 1 million acres of drone data and have launched their software for free to anyone in over 120 countries. CEO Mike Winn explains: “Historically,...
Agribotix – Lankota Partnership Expands International Customer Base For Drone-Enabled Agricultural Analytics Solutions
BOULDER, Colo., Sept. 30, 2015—Agribotix LLC and Lankota® have partnered to distribute turnkey drone-enabled agricultural intelligence technologies and services to tractor dealers in the US, Canada, and Australia. The all-in-one package combines Agribotix's...
Drones and New Applications for Precision Agriculture
Basic crop scouting from drones provides a major improvement over how field surveys previously were done, and it's the primary driver for drone-technology adoption. Crop scouts traditionally were employed to walk farm fields to monitor crop condition. This is hot, time-consuming work, and crop scouts have difficulty visiting even a small percentage of a whole field, easily missing problem areas.
Drones: The Market Behind the Buzz
Unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) companies have found themselves at the center of a fast-growing, billion-dollar industry. Drone technology, initially designed for military reconnaissance, has started hovering around the agriculture industry while creating solutions for a healthy ecosystem of additional commercial markets.
German Engineering: Imagery Tools Automate Vegetation Mapping in the Rhineland
With deadlines looming and significant subsidies on offer, Germany's RLP AgroScience saw the opportunity to use advanced spatial technology to automate this monumental task to help its local authorities meet the EU's requirements. Using available aerial imagery, digital surface models and image-analysis software, a small RLP AgroScience team, together with local authorities, created an operational system that completely automates the process of mapping and classifying vegetation to quickly produce precise, standardized classification datasets““the root layer of the vegetative features in the LPIS.
BlackBridge to Provide RapidEye Imagery to the Climate Corp for Precision Agriculture
May 8, 2015—BlackBridge recently announced that it has entered into an agreement with The Climate Corporation to provide RapidEye imagery of the major agricultural areas across the U.S. for use in The Climate Corporation's products and services for farmers. This...
SLANTRANGE Combines UAS Sensing and Analytics for Agricultural Insight
SLANTRANGE is a new sensor and analytics company that measures vegetation health to provide growers with accurate and real-time information about crop conditions. The company recently won the 2015 South by Southwest (SXSW) Accelerator Competition.
