Aerial Imagery Uses For The Farm

NeATA presentation February 2013

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1. Aerial Imagery Practical Uses For The Farm NeATA Conference February 13-14th, 2013 by Nate J. Taylor
2. • Scouting • Crop Health • VRT • Irrigation • Soil Sampling • Compaction • Crop Insurance • Tile Lines • Yield Correlation • Equipment Failures Not Just A Pretty Picture 2
4. Current GeoVantage Operational Countries Proposed 2011 Countries
5. Deployed Camera Systems 5
6. Standard Delivery with Every Order • True Color (RBG) • NIR (Near Infrared) • NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation Index) 6 True color: 3 Bands 1. Red 2. Green 3. Blue Near Infrared Band NDVI: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index Calculated using the visible (R) and Non-visible (NIR)
7. 7 Photo by jeferonix
8. The Farming Dollar Crop Inputs Seed Technology Crop Insurance Machinery & Power $213 per acre $27 per acre $134 per acre $92 per acre $32 per acre Storage/Handling Image courtesy of photosteve101 8 $1.70 per acre
9. Five management zones based on relative crop vigor. • Targeted efficient scouting • Create VR application file(s) 9
10. Bare Ground Image Near Infrared (NIR) Full Canopy Image True Color (RBG) Tile Line Locations Saturated Soils – Shows N Loss 10
11. NDVI Yield File Closely correlated to yield 11
12. Severe Compaction at Planting** • Center Fill Planter – Wet Soils – Weight Distribution – Iron, Seed, Starter, etc • Streaks occurred at drive path of tractor and planter every 60’ (24 row planter ) • April 10 Corn Planting into wet soil conditions 12 **Courtesy of ISA
13. Yield Loss Due To Compaction 13
16. Malbec blocks with tresseling system overlaid on crop vigor to aid fieldwork 16
17. Gray Leaf Spot 17
18. • Misapplication of N • Yield Monitor will not show this data due to averaging across rows 18
19. Tile Lines shows stress. Misapplication of Nitrogen 19
20. Each light green row is showing a malfunctioning knife in the row bar. 20
22. Spray drift from aerial application Originally thought this area was effected ~ $200 image prevented ~ $10,000 loss! 22
24. A Mobile Scouting Platform 24
26. To learn more on the value of having in- season, on-demand aerial imagery please find us here: Website: http://www.geovantage.com Email: aginfo@geovantage.com Phone: (814) 441-1867 26