Performing an accurate count of the crop right after planting is very important.
Those data provide vital information about seed germination, soil conditions, current population and final population projection, which is closely related to production estimates and evaluation of the Return of Investment.
“If you don’t have a very good drone photogrammetry surveying, it’s very difficult to count soy. The counting needs to be set at this stage, when they are small, at most 5cm high; after plants join and you don’t know which one is the other.” Said NAVE CEO Aimoré Dias.
We need suitable images, at least 1cm GSD with large overlap. Moreover, taking care of speed of the drone, the light conditions, image quality, target calibration and so for.
Great, once more we realize that to learn how to pilot a drone is a duty of the piloting schools. On the other hand, to learn how to flight and collect data for specific applications is a later stage provided by specialists who can help transforming your drone skills into a real business.
There are no quick courses to achieve that.That kind of “all in one pot” courses made of few hours with big titles including all. Nevertheless, background knowledge could be free of charge on the internet. But to validate all that to become the proper working activity takes time and application, along with the support of specialists. But then the results become a proper profit.
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