Targeted weed control
Spray the weeds, not the field
Cameras and on-board models find weeds plant by plant, then only the affected square metres get treated.
What this costs today
Blanket spraying treats the whole field because nobody knows which parts actually carry weeds. On a typical arable field the weed pressure is patchy: dense along headlands and tramlines, thin across the middle. Every litre applied to clean ground is money spent, residue added, and resistance pressure built for no agronomic return.
One flight, 98 weeds, 62 zones
This is the prescription from the demonstration field, drawn from the flight record rather than an illustration. Orange is ground the boom opens over. Everything else stays dry.
- Treated
- 4.34 ha
- Field
- 24.6 ha
- Resolution
- 1 cm/px
- Flight time
- 31 min
How the flight runs
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Scan
The drone flies a fixed grid at low altitude and photographs the canopy at centimetre resolution.
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Classify
An on-board model separates crop from weed and tags each detection with a species guess and a confidence score.
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Map
Detections are clustered into treatment zones and written to a prescription map with a buffer you set.
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Treat
The map loads into your section-control sprayer or spot-spray rig, which opens nozzles only over the marked zones.
What the aircraft carries
- RGB camera at 1 cm/px
- Downward LiDAR for canopy height
- RTK positioning
Two to four scouting flights per crop, timed to the herbicide windows.
What you receive
- Weed density map
- ISOXML / shapefile prescription
- Species breakdown per zone
- Before and after comparison
What it measures
Readings this capability produces on your fields. Measurements, not promises.
- Treated area as a share of field area
- Product volume per hectare
- Detections by species
- Zone count and mean zone size
Where this carries the most weight
All use cases-
Winter wheat and barley
Establishment gaps, patchy weed pressure, septoria risk and a nitrogen plan that has to follow the field, not a flat rate.
Blocks of 10 to 120 hectares, flown as one route.
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Agricultural contractors
Add scouting, wildlife searches and prescription maps to the work you already do, without buying a fleet.
Portfolios of 500 to 5,000 hectares across many holdings.
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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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Sugar beet
Wide rows and slow early growth make beet the crop where weed mapping and spot treatment save the most.
Blocks of 10 to 80 hectares.
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Organic farms
Without herbicides, weed location decides where the hoe goes, when, and how many passes the field actually needs.
Blocks of 5 to 100 hectares.