Drones | UAVs
November 7, 2017
Sentera announced today availability of gimbaled Double 4k and Quad sensors for the popular DJI Inspire 2 drone. Sentera's swappable precision crop health sensors paired with the Inspire 2 offers agronomists, crop consultants, and growers an economical way to...
Drones | UAVs
November 2, 2017
President Trump recently announced the new Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) Integration Pilot Program to accelerate the integration of UAS into our nation’s busy airspace and to spur innovation, according to a press release sent out by FAA this afternoon.
The...
Drones | UAVs
October 24, 2017
Just in time for the holiday ag drone shopping season (lol) Parrot — the French drone manufacturer most known for its Bebop line of consumer-focused birds — has announced the availability of its newest and first-of-its-kind ag-focused drone, the...
Drones | UAVs
October 12, 2017
Via DroneLife.com's Jason Reagan:
According to an August study by Esticast Research & Consulting Market Research, the global commercial drone market may reach $3.6 billion by 2024. However, a new study forecasts an even larger bumper crop for just one...
Drones | UAVs
October 3, 2017
From the Rose Garden at the White House, to the laser-leveled fields of Yuma, AZ (home to 90% of this country’s winter leafy greens), data analysis, precision/digital agriculture, and drones are hot topics of conversation, writes Lee Allen on...
Drones | UAVs
September 22, 2017
Chernovetskyi Investment Group (CIG) has reached an agreement on investment into Kray Technologies company, which manufactures Kray Protection industrial robotic cargo UAVs (drones) for spraying with plant protection products and regulators of crop yield growth, according to an article...
Drones | UAVs
September 7, 2017
The farming industry is on the cusp of a so-called ‘technological revolution,’ writes Sohini Bagchi on CXOToday.com. With drones, robots and intelligent monitoring systems now successfully being used in research and field trials, artificial intelligence, or machine learning, is...
Drones | UAVs
August 31, 2017
Sentera today announced new features for the NDVI Toolbox in Sentera AgVault Desktop. The new tools offer agriculture professionals improved field insights for use on and off the field. New capabilities include zone management, a basic prescription-writing tool, and...
Drones | UAVs
July 28, 2017
MicaSense Atlas is now integrated with Pix4D desktop software.
This exciting partnership is designed to offer MicaSense customers the power of desktop processing, as well as the flexibility of MicaSense Atlas.
“Our customers value Atlas as an analytics and collaboration platform,”...
Drones | UAVs
July 12, 2017
Fully Customizable Filters on Sentera Quad Sensor Allow for Unique Crop Health Detection Capabilities
Sentera introduces the latest update to its high-precision sensor product line, the Quad Sensor. Featuring four fully customizable imagers, the multispectral Sentera Quad Sensor is a...
Drones | UAVs
June 20, 2017
RDO Equipment Agronomist Nate Dorsey about to launch a senseFly eBee SA drone.
My first exposure to unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) was as a master’s student at Kansas State University. I was researching nitrogen use efficiency...
Drones | UAVs
June 10, 2017
Having obtained my FAA Part 107 Commercial Drone Operators license back in September of last year, I’ve spent the past months dabbling in some light commercial drone work here and there, but mostly, I’ve done a good amount of...
Connectivity
June 3, 2017
PrecisionAg Professional Editors Matthew Grassi and Paul Schrimpf list unmanned technology as one of the 10 most intriguing technologies in agriculture. Pictured is the autonomous concept tractor from Case IH.
This may be a bit of...
Drones | UAVs
May 11, 2017
Sentera introduces its Phoenix fixed-wing drone product line, with variants to support the precision agriculture, mapping, and public safety industries, according to a press release from the company.
“Our customers depend on us to provide user-friendly drone solutions to collect...
Drones | UAVs
May 8, 2017
AgEagle Aerial Systems of Neodesha, KS, today announced a fixed wing drone for the use in precision agriculture that far exceeds the capabilities of most multirotor drones.
“The AgEagle RX48 beats Chinese drones in performance, quality and value,” said Bret...
Drones | UAVs
April 27, 2017
Sentera announced the release of its Multispectral Double 4K Sensor, offering five precise spectral bands: blue, green, red, red edge, and near-infrared (NIR). This sensor enables users to collect visual band imagery as well as vegetation indices based upon...
Drones | UAVs
April 11, 2017
Sentera today announced the availability of its precision agriculture solutions at over 350 retail locations across North America. By broadening the reach of Sentera's precision agriculture offering, agronomists, crop consultants, and growers can leverage critical normalized difference vegetation index...
Drones | UAVs
April 7, 2017
Commercial drone software platform developer DroneDeploy has announced an integration with the agX to help growers more easily capture field maps and analyze aerial data. agX users can now share field boundaries saved in agX with DroneDeploy to simplify the planning of...
Drones | UAVs
April 7, 2017
Possibly in response to the escalating situation between U.S. forces and Syria in the Middle East, FAA has issued UAS NOTAM (Notice to Airmen) FDC 7/7137, establishing airspace restrictions for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) over 133 military facilities in the...
Drones | UAVs
April 5, 2017
Sentera today launched updates to its Incident Light Sensor (ILS) for use on NDVI-Upgraded DJI Phantom 4, Phantom 3, and Inspire drones.
For several years, research customers have used the Sentera ILS to measure the color spectrum of incident light...