Interesting, I'm also involved in a project to do yield prediction, but with a ground-vehicle with camera's on top to drive between strawberry and blueberry plants.

Yield prediction is huge indeed, because overshooting your prediction means seller stuff for a lower price. Undershooting means paying for someone's product to make up for the difference. Probably there's quite a bit of matchmaking in between those under and overshooters and someone making a good buck out of that too.