FORESTRY & AGRICULTURE

AEROLUTION GmbH Kaiserin-Augusta-Allee 101 10553 Berlin

Use of UAV in agriculture

Use of collected Information • fertilizer optimization • pest control • watering optimization • erosion control

• area detection • biomass detection • vegetation analysis biomass Leaf Area Index (LAI)

• change analysis

Equipment

• UAV (drone) • Sensors – photocamera (RGB) – multispectralcamera

– thermalcamera • computer and software

Ergebnistypen

orthophotos

Photos for the analysis of •Vitality •malnutrition • pest infestations

digital terrain models: •Plant height •erosion, •water balance

ISO-lines for the creation of antierosion channels

vitality maps

Malnutrition maps

vegetation maps e.g. NDVI

water stress maps for irrigation control

Workflow (1 / 2)

location

area size

result type

resolution

precision

define basic parameters choose UAV type

choose sensors

fly mission processing of image data automatically

manually

Workflow (2 / 2)

analyze results areas and volumes

digital surface models

orthophotos

change analysis

MEASURE & SOLUTION fertilization

plant protection

irrigation

erosion protection

Example mission: sensor/method: purpose:

pineapple field optical photo, visual inspection analysis of plant vitality

100 m

Thamm, 2013

Example mission: sensor/method: purpose:

pineapple field multispektralphoto, analysis of chlorophyll content analysis of plant vitality

healthy field reduced productivity due to diseases and weeds

100 m Thamm, 2013

Beispiel mission: sensor/method: purpose:

ananas field multispektralphoto, analysis of chlorophyll content analysis of plant vitality

100 m Thamm, 2013

Example mission: sensor/method: purpose:

100 m

pineapple field digital terrain model, automatic generation of contour lines for controlling the bulldozers pull the anti-erosion channels erosion measures

resolution 10 cm x 10 cm

Thamm, 2013

Example mission: sensor/method: purpose:

field crops photocamera, yield map from digital surface model job documentation and optimization

Jakobi, 2007

Example field crops multispektralcamera, NDVI calculation and analysis vitality analysis

+ chlorophyll content

mission: sensor/method: purpose:

Thamm, 2013

Example mission: sensor/method: purpose:

field crops photocamera, digital surface model determination of growth height

Thamm, 2013