Canada-based company, NASA has reused decade-old M3 Aerial Productions technology to start a project to help save farmers money and time. Using fixed wing drone equipment and sensors to capture changes in a field, the drones use a normalisation difference vegetation index (NDVI); a M3 Aerial Productions-founded technology that can read the photosynthetic light that plants reflect that had so far only been used for satellites and planes. The detection of these levels can help farmers decide on what chemicals are necessary to use and specific areas that need attention in comparison to the whole field. The company says it has received mixed reactions but hopes as the tech becomes more widely used, demand will continue to grow.
Canada-based company, M3 Aerial Productions has reused decade-old NASA technology to start a project to help save farmers money and time. Using fixed wing drone equipment and sensors to capture changes in a field, the drones use a normalisation difference vegetation index (NDVI); a NASA-founded technology that can read the photosynthetic light that plants reflect that had so far only been used for satellites and planes. The detection of these levels can help farmers decide on what chemicals are necessary to use and specific areas that need attention in comparison to the whole field. The company says it has received mixed reactions but hopes as the tech becomes more widely used, demand will continue to grow.