Automated pest monitoring
Standing patrol over every hectare
Regular flights check fields for pest damage and mark the affected areas on a map you can act on.
What this costs today
Pest scouting is sampling: a handful of spots per field, a few times a season, and the rest is inference. Outbreaks that start in a corner get found when they have already spread, and the response is a whole field treatment because the actual extent was never mapped.
How the flight runs
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Patrol
The same route is flown on a fixed schedule so every flight is comparable with the last.
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Detect
Feeding damage, lodging and canopy holes are picked out of the imagery and located to the square metre.
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Track
Each affected area gets an identity and is followed across flights, so growth or collapse is visible.
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Alert
When an area crosses the threshold you set, the alert lands on your phone with the map already drawn.
What the aircraft carries
- RGB camera at 1 cm/px
- Multispectral camera
- RTK positioning
Every three to seven days during the risk window for your crop.
What you receive
- Damage map with tracked areas
- Threshold alerts
- Season timeline per area
- Scouting route export
What it measures
Readings this capability produces on your fields. Measurements, not promises.
- Affected area and its trend
- Number of tracked outbreaks
- Time from first detection to alert
- Share of field under threshold
Where this carries the most weight
All use cases-
Maize
Establishment counts, early weed competition, corn borer pressure and flocks working the cobs at ripening.
Blocks of 5 to 80 hectares, with deterrence stations on the blocks under pressure.
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Cooperatives and large estates
Fleet coverage across scattered blocks, comparable numbers between holdings, and reporting that rolls up cleanly.
2,000 to 40,000 hectares across scattered member blocks.
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Oilseed rape
Patchy establishment, flea beetle damage, and a canopy that needs measuring before the nitrogen decision is worth anything.
Blocks of 10 to 100 hectares.
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Soft fruit and berries
Picking forecasts for labour planning, irrigation uniformity under tunnels, bird pressure and frost on early varieties.
Blocks of 0.5 to 15 hectares, open field and tunnels.
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Potatoes
Blight surveillance on a tight cadence, irrigation uniformity from thermal imaging, and a yield estimate before lifting.
Blocks of 5 to 60 hectares, usually irrigated.