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Precision Agriculture

Vegetable Producer Inks Drone Services Contract with Deveron

Posted by Betsy Lillian on November 10, 2016

Toronto, Ontario-based Deveron UAS Corp. has secured a new contract with Bonduelle North America, a large producer of ready-to-use vegetables. Deveron is a full-service enterprise drone data services company focused on agriculture. The company aims to help consumers increase yields [Read More]

Sentera Debuts Omni UAV Package for Inspections, Agriculture

Posted by Betsy Lillian on October 28, 2016

Minneapolis-based Sentera LLC has introduced the Omni unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) package, a quadcopter fixed with Sentera’s gimbaled, double 4K sensor. Empowering users to collect precise data from obscure angles, an Omni + Double 4K Sensor package simultaneously captures macro and [Read More]

Agrowing and Mavis Link up for UAV Precision Ag Solution

Posted by Betsy Lillian on October 28, 2016

Agrowing Ltd. – a provider of high-resolution, low-distortion, multispectral cameras – has announced an integration with Bitmapping’s Mavis unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) photogrammetry and mapping software. Agrowing’s modified Sony ILCE QX1 camera is an agricultural multispectral camera based on Agrowing’s [Read More]

Canadian Drone Company Notches First U.S. Commercial Flight

Posted by Betsy Lillian on October 27, 2016

Toronto, Ontario-based Deveron UAS Corp. – an enterprise drone data service company focused on agriculture – has completed its first commercial drone flight in the U.S. After a successful grow season in Canada, the company says it is excited to [Read More]

Drone Ag Intelligence Provider Grabs Top Spot in State’s Cleantech Competition

Posted by Betsy Lillian on October 27, 2016

Agribotix, a Boulder, Colo.-based provider of drone-derived agricultural intelligence, has been selected as this year’s winner of the Emerging Cleantech Company of the Year by the Colorado Cleantech Industries Association. The association is a statewide organization that aims to promote [Read More]

SLANTRANGE Wins U.S. Patent for Ag Drone Tech

Posted by Betsy Lillian on October 26, 2016

SLANTRANGE Inc., a San Diego-based provider of drone-based remote sensing and analytics systems for agriculture, says it has been issued a new patent covering foundational technologies for aerial crop inspection and measurement. Patent 9,470,579, issued by the U.S. Patent and [Read More]

UAVs Help Figure out Effects of Climate Change on Crops

Posted by Betsy Lillian on September 26, 2016

Missouri University of Science and Technology (Missouri S&T) is using unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) as part of a research project on the effects of climate change on food scarcity and distribution. Specifically, Dr. Simone Silvestri, an assistant professor of computer [Read More]

Ontario Companies Team up for Ag Drone Services

Posted by Betsy Lillian on September 26, 2016

Toronto-based Deveron UAS Corp. has secured a new contract with South West AG Partners Inc., a retail agri-business in southwestern Ontario, to provide on-demand drone data services. Deveron says its drone data service network allows customers to obtain on-demand, actionable [Read More]

Drones Brought in for Cattle Ranching Project in BC

Posted by Betsy Lillian on September 20, 2016

Dr. John Church, British Columbia’s regional innovation chair in cattle industry sustainability, has partnered with Southern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) and Golden BC’s Kingsclere Ranch on a project that implements drones for precision ranching. Church is the lead researcher [Read More]

UND Gets Nearly $1M in Support of Drone Ag Research

Posted by Betsy Lillian on September 12, 2016

U.S. Sen. John Hoeven, R-N.D., a member of the U.S. Senate Appropriations Committee, has announced the National Science Foundation’s award of nearly $1 million to support the University of North Dakota’s (UND) unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) agricultural research. According to [Read More]

Sentera Announces New Battery-Swap Feature for UAV Precision Ag

Posted by Betsy Lillian on September 09, 2016

Sentera has announced the latest update to its AgVault 2.0 mobile iOS app, featuring a battery-swap capability that enables drone operators to plan a flight of any size. The battery-swap feature was designed in conjunction with the AgVault 2.0 app [Read More]

senseFly’s New Ag Drone Covers 500 Acres in Under an Hour

Posted by Betsy Lillian on August 31, 2016

Parrot Sequoia, meet your very own drone: senseFly’s eBee SQ, a fixed-wing system that combines precise crop imaging with large ground coverage.

Deveron Begins Drone Data Study on Beans Impacted by White Mold

Posted by Betsy Lillian on August 17, 2016

Toronto-based Deveron UAS Corp. has commenced a drone data study with Hensall District Cooperative (HDC) and an agrochemical company with respect to variable-rate fungicide applications. Drone data is being used to test the efficacy and potential return on investment for [Read More]

Minneapolis Drone Ag Software Company Expands Global Reach

Posted by Betsy Lillian on August 08, 2016

Sentera LLC, a Minneapolis-based provider of remote sensing hardware and data management solutions, recently signed a reseller agreement with DroneMate, an agriculture and inspection drone and sensor distributor in New Zealand. The agreement gives New Zealand’s agriculture industry access to [Read More]

Ag Drone Rodeo Comes to Pendleton, Ore., Soon

Posted by Betsy Lillian on August 05, 2016

The Oregon UAS FutureFarm is hosting a two-day Ag Drone Rodeo, which will feature unmanned aircraft system (UAS) crop survey flight demos and post-flight data analysis presentations from companies in digital agriculture. Taking place in Pendleton, Ore., on Aug. 18-19, [Read More]

Pix4D Brings Drone Agriculture Software to Desktop and Cloud

Posted by Betsy Lillian on August 04, 2016

Pix4D has rolled out a new hybrid solution for agriculture: Users of the recently launched Parrot Sequoia multispectral sensor with a license of Pix4Dmapper Ag will be able to process mapping data both in the Pix4Dmapper Ag desktop solution and the [Read More]

Farmers Edge, Green Aero Tech Link Up for Drone Precision Ag Solution

Posted by Betsy Lillian on July 28, 2016

Farmers Edge, a provider of precision agriculture and data management solutions, has partnered with Green Aero Tech, a drone systems and data provider. Farmers Edge – which is based in both Winnipeg, Manitoba, and Shakopee, Minn. – says growers will [Read More]

John Deere Software Integrates with Agribotix Drone Ag Platform

Posted by Betsy Lillian on July 27, 2016

Agribotix, a Boulder, Colo.-based provider of drone-enabled agricultural intelligence, has integrated its FarmLens agricultural data platform with the John Deere Operations Center for real-time decision support for any farming operation. According to Agribotix, results from the FarmLens platform can provide [Read More]

Pix4D, senseFly Offering Workshop on UAS in Precision Ag

Posted by Betsy Lillian on July 27, 2016

In collaboration with The InfoAg Conference, held Aug. 2-4 in St. Louis, senseFly and Pix4D are teaming up to offer a technical workshop on using unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) for precision agriculture. Taking place Aug. 4 from 1:00-4:30 p.m. at [Read More]

Deveron UAS Issued Transport Canada Approval for Three More Provinces

Posted by Betsy Lillian on July 26, 2016

Toronto-based Deveron UAS Corp., a drone data service company for agriculture, has received a standing Special Flight Operations Certificate (SFOC) to deploy its unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) in Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba as a restricted operator for complex operations. Under [Read More]