Agronomy · 1 min read
When NDVI flatlines, switch bands
Once the canopy closes, the index everyone quotes stops moving and stops telling you anything. NDVI saturates somewhere around V10 on most…
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Operations · 1 min read
Four checks that account for most aborts
We went back through 4,000 missions to find out why flights got scrubbed. Three quarters of them traced to the same short…
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Economics · 1 min read
The true per-acre cost of a mapped pass
Flight time, battery cycles, product and labour laid out line by line, set against the identical job run with a ground rig.…
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Agronomy · 1 min read
What a rate map should tell you before you approve it
A rate file with no reasoning attached is just a picture. Here is what ours carry. Every zone we flag comes with…
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Operations · 1 min read
Wet spring, standing water, and the tile line nobody mapped
The most useful thing a thermal camera has ever found for us was a drainage fault, not a disease. A north-east block…
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Compliance · 1 min read
Drift, wind windows and the log that settles the argument
Every pass records wind speed, heading, nozzle state and position, second by second. That log exists for our own operating certificate, but…
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