Stratus Imaging operations manager and chief pilot Andrew Dedman with a Xaircraft drone at TECHSPO Flying up to five drones at once above broadacre farms could be an eye in the sky for the State’s grain growers to manage crops, according to Stratus Imaging chief pilot Andrew Dedman. Speaking from the sidelines at TECHSPO in Katanning last Thursday, Mr Dedman championed the Perth-based company’s ability to provide farmers with aerial imaging and mapping. Stratus uses normalised difference vegetation index technology, or NDVI, across crops to help producers make “quantifiable management decisions throughout the growing season”. Flying an unmanned aerial vehicle equipped with a multispectral camera, NDVI imaging gives Stratus a birds-eye view of an entire crop to asses its health. Earlier this month, Stratus became…
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