Drones | UAVs
October 24, 2016
Our inaugural PrecisionAg Vision Conference, held last week in Phoenix, AZ, is officially in the books.
Having convened just over 200 stakeholders that hail from every aspect of the food production value chain over three days to discuss and debate...
Market Watch
October 24, 2016
*GUEST COLUMNIST’S NOTE: This monthly column takes some crazy sounding ideas and applies them to the field of Ag Tech. The purpose of this is purely entertainment, but hey, if we can spread ideas, or ignite imaginations, how awesome...
Drones | UAVs
September 28, 2016
Sentera's Precision Agriculture Solutions being sold by Rise Above Custom Drone Solutions throughout Australia. Pictured here, DJI Phantom 4 Drone with NDVI 09 Upgrade.
Sentera, LLC, a global provider of remote sensing hardware and data management...
Market Watch
August 19, 2016
Veris Technologies and The Climate Corp., a subsidiary of Monsanto Co., recently announced a partnership that will make high resolution soil maps from Veris on-the-go soil sensors available as a key data layer for the agronomic models in The...
Drones | UAVs
August 18, 2016
Professional drone maker, senseFly, has teamed up with the popular aviation navigation app, Air Navigation Pro, to launch Safer Together. This joint initiative has been designed to address one of the biggest issues facing the General Aviation (GA) and...
Market Watch
August 12, 2016
Many media companies regularly rank their favorite or most important developments for the past year in various Top 10 lists because they provide a nice snapshot of what’s been taking place in a particular marketplace.
And if there ever was...
Data Management
August 2, 2016
Sentera, LLC, a global provider of remote sensing hardware and data management solutions has signed a reseller agreement with DroneMate, New Zealand’s premier agriculture and inspection drone and sensor distributor. The agreement gives New Zealand’s agriculture industry access to Sentera’s...
Imagery
July 21, 2016
Even if you’ve been buried in a tractor cab or chained to your desk at work the past couple weeks, even you’ve noticed this new Pokémon Go craze.
Gotta admit, not really a huge fan myself (surprising, right?), but I’ve...
Data Management
July 14, 2016
A Green Aero Tech UAV-produced drainage map, which the newly formed company says "shows the natural water flow on the land. It also points out where water is getting trapped in sinks and depressions."
The unmanned...
Market Watch
July 7, 2016
Smart Farming is not just for large farms and research centers, but is starting to impact small and medium-sized farms, says Beecham Research, a leading IoT analyst and research firm that looks closely at the agriculture sector.
“The farming industry...
Market Watch
July 6, 2016
Who says agriculture is a low-tech enterprise?
Not conglomerate Calata Corp., which has partnered with Austrian firm Pessl Instruments GmbH to sow the seed of the cutting-edge Internet of Things (IoT) in Philippine farming, reports Angel Palpal-Iatoc and Ronnel W....
Data Management
June 27, 2016
Sentera, LLC sensors have officially captured over 25,000,000 acres of images. Sentera's AgVault 2.0 Software translates this imagery into actionable data for the precision agriculture industry. Sentera's unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), precision sensors, and software are recognized by customers...
Data Management
May 31, 2016
All it took was a few drone flights over Nebraska cornfields for Mike Ritter, CEO of SLANTRANGE, to show farmers the value of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in agriculture using the technology developed by his company, writes Patrick C....
Digital Farming
May 31, 2016
Bayer and the aerospace technology company Planetary Resources, based in Redmond, WA, have signed a memorandum of understanding about the development of applications and products based on satellite images. Bayer intends to purchase these data from Planetary Resources to...
Drones | UAVs
May 10, 2016
Sentera announces availability of the Sentera NDVI Single sensor for the DJI Phantom 4 drone.
The normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) single adds an ultra-lightweight, high-precision NDVI sensor to the Phantom 4, creating a powerful and affordable precision agriculture tool....
Data Management
May 3, 2016
SLANTRANGE’s new drone-ready sensor and analytics system optimizes battery life, aerodynamics, and weight while doubling the area imaged each flight. Photo: Business Wire
SLANTRANGE, pioneers of a smarter approach to aerial remote sensing and analytics for...
Data Management
April 28, 2016
Sentera today introduced its Double 4K sensor, bringing a small, fully-customizable twin-imager sensor to the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) industry.
The rugged, high-throughput Double 4K sensor is designed for use in harsh environments, with configuration options tailored for use in...
Data Management
April 21, 2016
Farmers who employ Internet-connected and precision farming equipment should be very mindful of the way they configure their devices, the FBI warned in a public statement advisory at the end of March, reports Catalin Cimpanu on SoftPedia.com.
The Bureau, together...
Data Management
April 12, 2016
Semios, a leading provider of real-time agricultural information and precision pest management tools, today announced it has closed an $8 million financing with private equity individuals from the ag tech community, with assistance from Haywood Securities.
Founded in 2010, Semios...
Drones | UAVs
April 8, 2016
AgEagle founder Bret Chilcott demonstrates the company's UAV during the 2015 InfoAg preshow tour near St. Louis, MO.
One of the biggest pieces of news to break in the precision agriculture drone world recently was that...
