Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector

Re:Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector by jonathankoren on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @01:58AM (#11387241)

I'm life long friends with with family that owns a 80,000 acre grain and soybean farm, and they looked into drones last year or so for crop assessment, but found it wasn't really effective from either an analysis or price perspective. The drones didn't really have the range or endurance to properly sample the fields (we're talking fields of several square miles each), and the resolution of the camera just couldn't give you the detail you needed. It was basically just a waste.

Perhaps if there were more specific imaging sensors on the drones or something, you'd have something, but a simple visible light camera just doesn't reveal enough info.

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Re:Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector by pixl97 on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @02:19AM (#11387306)

> but a simple visible light camera just doesn't reveal enough info.

One would think that IR would be very useful in diagnosing plant types and crop coverage.

>80,000 acre grain and soybean farm

I misread that humorously as a '80,000 acre soylent green farm' somehow. Guess it's bedtime for me.

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Re:Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector by Amir6 on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @10:41AM (#11389591)

I would like to have a conversation with you or them to convince them otherwise. I have been operating my own ag robotics company for 2 years and have contracts with biggest ag producers in Canada. 80,000 sounded big but not as big as biggest producers of wheat or corn!

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Re:Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector by fanquake on Thursday March 31, 2016 @12:49AM (#11395062)

I'd be interested in hearing your arguments/use cases for drones over broad-acre properties, we've got(generally wheat) producers here with properties > 150'000 acres.

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Re:Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector by Amir6 on Thursday March 31, 2016 @08:33AM (#11396654)

shoot an email to "amirbeta" on outlook and we will have a discussion.

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Re:Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector by cylinder on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @01:15PM (#11390997)

How did you get into this business? Are there opportunities for small business?

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Re:Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector by Amir6 on Thursday March 31, 2016 @08:34AM (#11396662)

lots of opportunities! let me know if you are interested in having a conversation. My contact info is in above comment.

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Re:Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector by robk on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @08:02AM (#11388612)

Mavrx uses low flying aircraft to do the same analysis. It's surpringly cheaper to pay local pilots by the hour then to manage drones at this point although there's surely a point in the future when this changes over...

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Re:Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector by NicoJuicy on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @10:36AM (#11389540)

Any coöperation in a foreign country possible?

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Re:Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector by hengheng on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @03:46AM (#11387581)

Hi, can you shoot me an e-mail? I've got a few questions I'd like to ask.

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