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We are in Poland: Profesjonalne usługi dronem dla rolnictwa i leśnictwa Have done projects for ag chem multinational companies as well as for those who do trial plots on contracts. We process & draw stat for both RGB and multispectral datasets.

I wish I had that much work.

What hardware do you use? Is Micasense the only camera on board? I have not flown Micasense sensors but guess that their wi-fi interface allows for good mission planning as well as calculating GSD. Otherwise mission planning for your drone and setting the Micasense could be meant separate...

Yes they are.

All in all - it will take even longer and more batteries. Does it remain practical then to use a copter for such big sites?

It is going to be a lot of flying for you. I have made a little exercise and have looked up what you are up to using Pix4dcapture. Believe DD will yield similar results. 850 acres at: 400 ft and 80/75% overlap and fast speed means app. 130 min of flying only. Assuming P4P endurance of 15 min (am...

Trees might pose a real problem here. It looks like there are a lot of dense forrests at your flight site. I am not sure you see P4P at all from 2000 ft. It is a small bird which will resemble a little dot at best from that distance. If you loose the sight it will be very difficult to get your...

And this is where a satellite map could definitely bring value helping e.g. spreading dear fertilizers/chemicals where the need is instead of applying flat rates. Needless to say that no field is homogenous so crops grow better or worse in places. And no farmer can tell a difference and...

I fully agree. Based on mine experience, have been focusing on ag drone services for a few years now, it is really hard to get farmers see added value of drone mapping. Regardless RGB or multispectral. In fact we lose to sattelite imagery considering availability of maps and pricing especially...

Appreciate your comments. Talking about a small job - this particular job was to fly 40 trial plots covering +/- 8 acres using multispec camera. A trial of that size is easy to be scouted from a ground and will not consume a lot of time contrary to a one which would consist of hundreds or more...

Thx. This is what I did in fact including processing multispectral imagery, plot digitalization, veg indices calculation and statistics etc. I am afraid that additional cost such as mileage, travelling time etc. for remote destinations are too big to make small jobs sellable.

Hi, On the side of this discussion I wonder how you price your such remote/distant jobs. I mean how much of the total cost you account for travel expenses and time you spend on driving to and fro. 280 miles is quite a lot of driving, time-wise. Just lost an order which I believe was due to me...

You may also like to fly higher, provided uour target GSD allows. This will result in a bigger ground imsges footprint and more details for processing software to play with.

E.G. QGIS

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