Wildlife detection before mowing
Find the fawn before the mower does
Thermal drones search grassland ahead of the mower for fawns, hares and ground nesting birds, and mark every find.
What this costs today
Roe deer leave their fawns lying in tall grass, and a fawn's instinct is to press flat rather than run. The first cut of silage every spring kills a large number of them. In Germany the responsibility to take reasonable precautions sits with the person doing the mowing, and walking a field with a line of helpers rarely covers it in the time available.
How the flight runs
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Fly at dawn
The search runs in the cool hours before mowing, when a warm body contrasts most strongly with the sward.
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Detect heat
The thermal camera picks out warm shapes and the model separates animals from stones, molehills and machinery.
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Mark
Every find is pinned to a coordinate and pushed live to the phone of the person on the ground.
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Clear
The animal is carried out or boxed, the point is closed off in the app, and the mower follows behind the cleared area.
What the aircraft carries
- Radiometric thermal camera
- RGB spotlight camera for confirmation
- RTK positioning
Every first cut, and any later cut on fields with known activity.
What you receive
- Live find map on the ground crew's phone
- Search coverage record
- Signed off log per field
- Season summary for the hunting tenant
What it measures
Readings this capability produces on your fields. Measurements, not promises.
- Area searched per flight
- Finds per hectare
- Search completed before the mower started
- Coverage gaps flagged
Where this carries the most weight
All use cases-
Grassland and silage
Thermal fawn searches ahead of first cut, sward quality mapping, and reseeding where the ground has gone back.
Fields of 2 to 40 hectares, flown at dawn.
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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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Dairy and grazing livestock
Daily head counts, fence line inspection and flagged animals, without the drive to every outlying block.
Grazing platforms of 20 to 300 hectares, docks placed by battery range.
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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.