Early disease detection
See the infection before the eye can
Multispectral imaging picks up stress, fungal infection and nutrient shortfall days before symptoms are visible from the cab.
What this costs today
By the time a farmer sees a disease from the tractor seat, the infection has usually been established for a week or more and the treatment window has narrowed to a curative spray instead of a protective one. Walking the field catches it earlier, but nobody has the hours to walk every hectare weekly.
How the flight runs
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Capture
A multispectral camera records red edge and near infrared bands alongside visible light.
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Index
The bands are combined into vegetation indices that expose chlorophyll loss and cell structure damage.
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Compare
Each flight is compared against the field's own history, so a wet spring baseline does not read as disease.
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Flag
Divergent patches are ranked by severity and area, with a scouting route so you can ground truth the worst first.
What the aircraft carries
- Five band multispectral camera
- Downwelling light sensor
- RGB reference camera
Weekly through the main growth stages, tightening around high risk weather.
What you receive
- Index maps per flight
- Change layer against the previous flight
- Ranked scouting list
- Ground truth capture form
What it measures
Readings this capability produces on your fields. Measurements, not promises.
- Affected area per flight
- Change since the previous flight
- Severity distribution
- Days from flag to ground truth
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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Vineyards
Vigour mapping by row, downy and powdery mildew surveillance, frost pockets, and the terrain where drone application is actually permitted.
Parcels of 0.5 to 20 hectares, including slopes machinery cannot work.
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Orchards
Fruit counting for the pack house booking, blossom frost protection, tree by tree health, and birds at ripening.
Blocks of 1 to 40 hectares.
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Hops
Downy mildew and spider mite surveillance from above, plus vigour mapping across a trellis that hides everything at ground level.
Yards of 2 to 50 hectares.
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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.