The Drone Industry’s Latest Win Could Be Big for Farming, Too
Being the only Part 107 FAA drone operator here at Meister Media Worldwide, I often get invited by the various editors of the many ag markets we cover to write something, anything, about drones, writes Matthew Grassi at Growing Produce.
I guess these little flying robots that started popping up all around the countryside back in 2012 are a pretty popular subject among growers at the moment. Who knew, right?
The truth of the matter is drone hardware innovation in the ag space has been somewhat stagnant for the last few years. There had been huge leaps forward in 2019 in both last-mile drone delivery platforms and thermal sensor integrations for search and rescue applications, but ag has remained sort of stuck on the bench for the last season.
However, that’s not to say it’s been completely dead in terms of farm drones in the last few months.
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There’s been some interesting new multispectral releases to the market (DJI’s P4 Multispectral, for one) recently, and the Aerovironment Quantix platform that’s been around for a few years and had a slight update for 2019 has achieved a level of autonomy that is intriguing for any farmer. Especially the grower who wants imagery but doesn’t really want to mess around with drones and pre-flight planning and all the nerdy nuts and bolts on the back end that go into making imagery useable.
But that brings me back to my coworkers here at MMW.
Right at this moment, I’d say the most intriguing development took place back in October, right around the time I was moderating a panel at Commercial UAV Expo in Las Vegas: the U.S. release of the new Skydio 2.
Continue reading at Growing Produce.
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