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Just How Good is Drone Imagery? Agribotix founder, Tom McKinnon, wrote an excellent post on Agribotix near infrared imagery, vegetation indices, and how cameras modified to image in the near infrared can be used to reliably monitor within-field crop variations. I wondered how Agribotix imagery would compare with the gold standard of moderate resolution landRead more

Agribotix and Lean: Learning, Innovating, Iterating & Improving Agribotix is making great strides applying lean startup principles to the business of drones and precision agriculture.  Agribotix brings amazing new technology to market for precision agriculture: a low-cost system that allows growers to easily integrate imagery into operations, reducing costs while increasing productivity and profitability on the farm.Read more

Agribotix GoPro Adventure: Part 3 – Rolling Shutter In our two previous GoPro blogs (Part 1 and Part 2) we’ve experimented with ways of hacking the GoPro to make it useful as an ag drone camera and pointed out some problems.  We solved most of the problems, but Part 2 left us with a showRead more

Canada takes the lead with reasonable UAV rules Our neighbors to the north have taken the lead in setting reasonable rules for UAV use.  Transport Canada announced at a conference in Montreal yesterday that UAVs under 2 kg do not need a Special Flight Operations Certificate.  Operators still need to comply with regulations very similarRead more

Agribotix GoPro Adventure: Part 2 A few weeks back we wrote a blog on modifying GoPro’s for use in drone ag imaging. If you recall from that blog, there were a couple of open issues with the GoPro: We couldn’t set the clock accurately because there is no GPS on the GoPro. The images usingRead more

Quad prop safety: fuse link We all know we should remove the props before we power up our multirotors on the bench, but how often are we in too much of a hurry to always do it?  There was a scary post on DIY Drones where a multirotor had an indoor flyaway.  In the discussionRead more