Forestry, Agriculture & Farming News & Articles

Here’s our round-up of the five most read articles on UnmannedSystemsTechnology.com this week

Sikorsky and Rain have demonstrated how an autonomous helicopter can take off, identify the location and size of a small fire, and then accurately drop water to suppress the flames

Funded under the Photonics Partnership, the HyperImage project is developing a new spectral camera for geo surveillance drones and automated vertical farming applications

DronTech Asia 2024 will take place at on the 25th-27th November IMPACT Muang Thong Thani, Thailand, focusing on the latest in drone application developments across industries

BBLeap has chosen Silicon Sensing’s DMU11 inertial measurement unit (IMU) to power its LeapBox sprayer, enabling enhanced accuracy in the application of autonomous crop treatment

Pyka announces Heinen Brothers Agra Services as the first U.S. customer for the Pelican Spray Autonomous Electric Crop Protection Aircraft


Kelly Hills Unmanned Systems will host a grand opening field day to showcase a new FAA-approved 49,000-square-mile agricultural drone testing facility that covers partial airspace in Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska and Iowa, on August 22, 2024

Tesseract’s Ag Drone will use advanced computer vision and optics to give farmers detailed, real-time information about their fields, enabling them to make informed crop or data decisions

Pyka has signed SLC Agrícola as a customer for the Pelican Spray, a fully-autonomous and 100% electric crop protection aircraft, entering one of the world’s largest agricultural markets

Working with several collaborators, Telia Company has remotely operated forestry machinery in an area with limited connectivity through the use of a drone-mounted 5G network, successfully controlling the equipment from 80km away

The planting machine BraSatt from Boid and Södra increases the survivability rates of plants, logging the exact coordinates of each planted sapling, and using AI and sensors to handle variable conditions

Drone Nerds has partnered with Sentera to expand its range of agricultural and industrial drone solutions, adding Sentera's PHX fixed-wing drone and multispectral sensors to its offerings

The first graduates are being turned out from a new agriculture program that students at Warren County Community College can meld with the school’s program for drone training, that then leads them into the precision agriculture field

Commercial UAS industry leaders serving on the Commercial UAV Expo Advisory Board will provide guidance for the 10th edition of the event taking place 3–5 September 2024, at Caesars Forum in Las Vegas, Nevada, USA

Yanmar Vineyard Solutions and Moët & Chandon have partnered to advance robotic and autonomous solutions in vineyards with the implementation of the YV01 autonomous vineyard robot

DJI’s Agras T50 and T25 will provide real-time mapping capabilities, 3D flight route generation, multidirectional obstacle sensing and automatic obstacle bypassing to bolster Drone Nerds enterprise solutions

The $699,000 federal grant will support a program that can launch students into a career in a field where skilled professionals are desperately needed, with a portion going towards outreach, particularly in the agriculture community

The International Drone Show has revealed a strong line-up of influential international drone speakers at this year’s event on May 29th in Denmark

The Operating Certificate allows the company's US subsidiary, Volatus Aerospace USA Corp., to operate any drone approved for agricultural operations, including drones weighing 55 pounds or greater

u-blox and Nordian will facilitate precise positioning for a diverse range of applications, including agriculture, service robots, machinery automation, unmanned systems, and more

GEODNET's high-reliability data service combined with Deep Sand Technology's affordable automated tractor solutions is expected to help farmers improve efficiency, yields, and reduce input costs

TERRA AI by StereoLabs is a leap forward in the ability for autonomous robotics to perceive space, performing depth, localization, semantic, obstacle detection, and fusion from multiple cameras in both space and time

The localized version of the PointPerfect GNSS augmentation service is designed for applications with restricted data bandwidth and connectivity plans

Stereolabs is set to give vision and crucial insights to autonomous tractors such as Monarch Tractors MKII, crop and harvesting robots, weeding robots, sprayers and more

Robotics Plus’ Prospr is an autonomous, multi-use, hybrid vehicle designed to carry out a variety of orchard and vineyard crop tasks more efficiently and sustainably while reducing reliance on labor