PrecisionHawk Creating UAV Buzz In RTP

Drones could soon mean big savings for the North Carolina agriculture industry, reports Mike Gonzalez for WNCN News in Raleigh, NC.

Developed by Raleigh-based PrecisionHawk, the company’s unmanned aerial vehicle is changing the way data is collected in the sky.

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With a wing span of 4 feet wide and a weight of just 3 pounds, the UAV is a flying, high-tech computer. Its on-board visual sensor can snap aerial imagery at one sub-pixel per centimeter, and can also depict images in hundreds of bands of light exposing problem areas not visible to the human eye.

What that means for farmers is the drone can find areas on a farm where soil is too wet or too dry, or even where a fungus is affecting the crop an how much nitrogen is in a crop.

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“We are different at PrecisionHawk because we take those images and information from various sensors we have aboard the platform and start to make use of that data,” explained business development director Tyler Collins.

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[…] PrecisionHawk and Genera Energy have partnered to develop new analysis algorithms specific to improving the efficiency and quality of sustainable biomass crop production and distribution. The algorithms will convert raw aerial imagery collected by drones and satellites into an actionable report for biomass crop farmers. The tools will be publicly licensed for use in the DataMapper software platform. […]