Automated field mapping
The base layer everything else sits on
One flight produces a high resolution 3D model of the field: elevation, drainage lines, headlands and problem ground.
What this costs today
Most farms are still working from a field boundary drawn once and a memory of where the wet spot is. Without an elevation model there is no way to see why one corner floods, where the water actually runs, or how much of a field is not worth cropping at all.
How the flight runs
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Survey
The drone flies an overlapping photogrammetry grid over the whole block.
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Reconstruct
Images are matched into a point cloud, then a surface model and an orthophoto.
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Derive
Slope, aspect, flow accumulation and depressions are calculated from the surface.
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Publish
Layers are written to your field record so every later flight is measured against the same base.
What the aircraft carries
- High resolution RGB camera
- RTK positioning
- Downward LiDAR on wooded or tall canopy blocks
Once per field, then refreshed after drainage work or a boundary change.
What you receive
- Orthophoto
- Digital surface and terrain models
- Drainage and flow layer
- Corrected field boundary with area
What it measures
Readings this capability produces on your fields. Measurements, not promises.
- Mapped area
- Elevation range across the block
- Depression area and volume
- Boundary area against the registered area
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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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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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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Reforestation and land restoration
Terrain mapping, seed pod broadcast onto ground machines cannot reach, and establishment counts that prove it worked.
Sites of 1 to 500 hectares, including terrain with no vehicle access.
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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.