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Nov 3, 2023 · Unmanned aerial systems, also called drones, can be programmed for a variety of uses in the agricultural industry. This includes land imaging, soil monitoring, collecting soil and water samples, surveying topography and boundaries, and troubleshooting — to name just a few.
- Resson Aerospace
- Taranis
- Agremo
- Satellogic
- Sentera
- DroneDeploy
- Prospera
- PrecisionHawk
- Hangar Technology
- TerrAvion
Founded in 2013, New Brunswick, Canada firm Resson Aerospace describes themselves as a “bioinformatics and data analytics company, delivering customized agriculture solutions for large corporate clients,” as evident by investors that include Monsanto and Mahindra & Mahindra. The startup has raised $27.7 million in funding so far to develop a crop m...
Founded in 2014, Israeli startup Taranis has taken in $29.5 millionin funding so far to give farmers the ability to more accurately predict yields throughout the growing season. The company does this by providing the growers with a “stand count” of the farm which is the number of seeds that fruitfully emerged after seeding. This information helps g...
While researching what stand counts are all about, we came across another firm providing stand count data. A Serbian firm called Agremo has taken in around $750,000to build their own solution that does stand counts and also plant health analysis. They’re great at SEO because if you Google the term “stand count,” they’re the first result from where ...
Founded in 2010, Silicon Valley startup Satellogic has taken in $29 million in funding so far to develop the “world’s vertically integrated geospatial analytics company.” With Tencent as the startup’s major investor, it’s no surprise they’ve bagged a deal with a Chinese state-owned rocket-launching firm, China Great Wall Industry Corp. Satellogic p...
Founded in 2014, Minneapolis startup Sentera has taken in $22.5 millionin funding so far to develop a platform that allows you to view your fields in real-time – the first solution of its kind. It operates at the edge – meaning it operates completely off your laptop in the field – providing you with information on weed maps, zone mapping, and popul...
Founded in 2013, San Francisco startup DroneDeploy has increased their funding to $56 million since we last looked at them in our article on 11 Startups for Drone Mapping and Aerial Imagery. Raising money gets a whole lot easier when you’ve partnered with SoftBank, Accenture, and The Climate Corporation, which have helped them reach over 30,000 use...
Founded in 2014, Israeli startup Prospera was previously featured in our article on the Top 10 Israeli Artificial Intelligence Startups and has taken in $22 millionin funding so far to offer a sophisticated platform that now monitors $5 billion worth of produce in 4,700 different fields. This self-described “machine learning powerhouse” analyzes mo...
Founded in 2011, North Carolina startup PrecisionHawk has taken in $104 millionin funding so far to develop a completely autonomous drone that can conduct aerial data collection at low altitudes which subsequently provide suggestions to growers. Using either multi-rotor or fix-winged drones, the analytical algorithms can provide information on vari...
Founded in 2016, Austin startup Hangar Technology has taken in $6.5 million in funding so far to offer a more advanced way of satellite imaging. The company bills itself as the world’s first robotics-as-a-service data acquisition platform. Compared to other commercial drones – which require you to manually plan every aerial imaging mission – the st...
Founded in 2013, San Leandro, California startup TerrAvion has taken in $10.1 millionin funding so far to offer farmers detailed images of their farms at an economical price point. The startup gathers the data from a fixed number of flights they take every growing season that cover the majority of ‘Murica’s farmlands. Their pricing is quite competi...
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Sep 7, 2023 · The event today is recognized as the birth of agricultural aviation in the United States. Shown to be effective, farmers became more interested in using crop dusting, officially known as agricultural aviation or aerial application, for their fields.
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Aug 2, 2021 · Today there are 1,560 aerial application businesses treating 127 million acres of cropland or 28% of the commercial cropland in the U.S. There are approximately 2.3 aircraft per agricultural aviation operation, or a total of 3,588 aircraft nationwide.
Aug 1, 2021 · The UAV-thermal imaging allows us to capture thermal properties of agricultural farms at a field scale and provides detailed, quantitative information of crops in-season, which may reduce the need for extensive, labour-intensive, traditional, and manual methods for crop abiotic stress monitoring in the field.
