Agriculture is undergoing a quiet yet rapid revolution, not in the field or the orchard but in the sky.
For generations, farmers have relied on manual scouting – walking rows, checking leaves, and trusting gut instinct – to monitor crop health. However, manual scouting is labour-intensive, time-consuming, and prone to human error, often identifying problems only after they have spread significantly.
Today, unmanned aerial vehicles, commonly known as drones, offer an initiative-taking solution. By capturing high-resolution data from above, drones reveal the invisible, allowing growers to detect early signs of stress, optimise inputs, and secure yields.
Monique Heydenrych, agricultural specialist and head of sales at Drone Solutions International, shares her knowledge on the operational landscape of drone-based pest and disease detection, examining the hardware, sensors, detectability of specific threats, and…
