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How does this get around all the heavy faa regulation?
Not only FAA, there are additional regulations that prohibit use of aerial vehicles to spray crops. The reason to do that is to minimise chemical pollution to other fields/nature. These regulations depend on country and few other things.
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Not only FAA, there are additional regulations that prohibit use of aerial vehicles to spray crops. The reason to do that is to minimise chemical pollution to other fields/nature. These regulations depend on country and few other things.
Crop dusting is very common in many countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_application
I can see the possible benefit for small vineyards & farms, but at 4ha/hr it would take more than a week to cover a single paddock (field) of ours. Although I'd assume the controlling software would have good route planning, probably driven by drones doing weed spotting and NDVI/biomass analysis I'd also like to know more about the kind of infrastructure you'd need to support autonomous operations, because if they're…
I can see the possible benefit for small vineyards & farms, but at 4ha/hr it would take more than a week to cover a single paddock (field) of ours. Although I'd assume the controlling software would have good route planning, probably driven by drones doing weed spotting and NDVI/biomass analysis I'd also like to know more about the kind of infrastructure you'd need to support autonomous operations, because if they're…
How long would it take to cover a single paddock using more standard techniques (manned aerial or ground-based)?
I can see the possible benefit for small vineyards & farms, but at 4ha/hr it would take more than a week to cover a single paddock (field) of ours. Although I'd assume the controlling software would have good route planning, probably driven by drones doing weed spotting and NDVI/biomass analysis I'd also like to know more about the kind of infrastructure you'd need to support autonomous operations, because if they're…
at 15k versus the cost of a helicopter or plane i think the solution is to simply buy a fleet of however many you need.
I can see the possible benefit for small vineyards & farms, but at 4ha/hr it would take more than a week to cover a single paddock (field) of ours. Although I'd assume the controlling software would have good route planning, probably driven by drones doing weed spotting and NDVI/biomass analysis I'd also like to know more about the kind of infrastructure you'd need to support autonomous operations, because if they're…
Is a week too slow? How often do crops need dusting?
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Crop dusting is very common in many countries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aerial_application
Yes, including the US. Spraying crops with airplanes is very common. Not sure where the idea it is banned comes from?
In EU we banned the aerial spraying (in most cases) as well as have quite complex rules to minimise this pollution: like not using spray in form of aerosols and such.