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Agribotix 2015 Agricultural Drone Pilot Survey Results Several months ago we set out to better understand how people are building businesses using drones to solve agricultural problems. There were some some surprises. People are using drones on a wider variety of crops than we expected. Some are making serious money offering drone-related services; 11% ofRead more

How to Survey Closed-Canopy Corn Image stitching software uses reference points in the various images to mesh them together at the correct orientation. When dealing with a field where the texture is consistent and there are no unique reference points, this software has it’s work cut out for it. Case in point is late-season corn.Read more

3 ways drones can help take agriculture to new sustainability heights Guest blog post – By Stephanie Businelli – Originally posted HERE Drone technology has been around for decades, taking to the skies to capture movie sequences, collect scientific data and scout territory. But there’s another industry where drones are really beginning to take off:Read more

Agribotix Engineering Site of the Day Agribotix was recently featured as the engineering site of the day on eeweb.com an electrical engineering community forum. EEweb shares product news and highlights for a wide variety of electronics, engineering, and robotics, companies and manufacturers. Agribotix is proud to be featured on a site with such a wellRead more

Agribotix Partners with AGCO and 3DRobotics Agribotix continues to provide FarmLens, our cloud ag data platform, to a growing list of manufacturers, and to receive great press doing it. This list will now include AGCO as it rolls out its new, full-package product offering of a UAV system, as featured on Agriculture.com here. The SOLORead more

Whale watching — the easy way While having breakfast on the deck of our rented beach house in Apto, CA, who should drop in but a humpback whale, less than 50 yards offshore. Daniel McKinnon, Enterprise Product Manager at 3D Robotics (aka my son and Agribotix co-founder) scrambled his Solo in minutes for a quickRead more

What to do if you don’t have satellite imagery to plan a mission? This is a guest post from Agribotix customer, Walter Morawa, flying the Enduro Drone over pineapple plantations in Costa Rica. Imaging out in the middle of nowhere in Costa Rica can get tricky. If you happen to have enough internet signal to findRead more