Aerial Sensing

Satellites for Precision Farming and Agricultural Prescription

The Econ­o­mist pub­lishes an arti­cle enti­tled ‘Har­vest Moon’ that describes (arti­fi­cial satel­lites are help­ing farm­ers boost crop yields) — whatever arti­fi­cial satel­lites are? Last I looked, the satel­lites were real and actu­ally existed and were doing real remote sensing.

In the arti­cle, exam­ples from France that using pre­ci­sion farm­ing tech­niques are described. Infoterra and Rapid­Eye are men­tioned. Other oper­a­tions inter­na­tion­ally that are doing this type of work include AgriTrend Agrol­ogy (who cou­ple agrol­o­gists to imagery) in Canada and satel­lites from India, Japan, Europe and Brazil are also involved in sim­i­lar work. ESRI is also heav­ily com­mit­ted to agri­cul­tural related work using remotely sensed images and has been work­ing on car­bon related geo­pro­cess­ing on this topic. Other com­pa­nies such as Definiens in Ger­many are pro­vid­ing high qual­ity image analy­sis capa­bil­ity and oth­ers are even think­ing about using unmanned vehi­cles (UAVs) for this purpose.

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