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Re:Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector by fanquake on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @02:44AM (#11387388)
"can capture geospatial data on huge areas much more easily"

What are you referring to as a "huge" area? All the work I'm seeing done with drones has been limited to ~700ha/day, if you've got perfect conditions. Normally it's much less.

What do you think drones with heat or IR cameras are most applicable too? When we've got machinery mounted sensors such as a biomass/NDVI camera or a weed-seeker, and the machinery has to make a pass over the field anyways, why not have those sensors onboard the machine? We're seeing Weed-seekers pay for themselves in the first year of use.

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Re:Agricultural – fastest growing robotic sector by infinite8s on Wednesday March 30, 2016 @02:03PM (#11391519)
That comment was referring to the use of UAVs or small satellites for broad surveillance (but at a lower resolution).
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