Act

Frost protection

Know which hollow will freeze tonight

Drones measure temperature across the block and identify the pockets that will drop below the damage threshold first.

What this costs today

A radiation frost is not uniform. Cold air drains downhill and pools, so one corner of an orchard can sit two or three degrees below the weather station on the shed roof. Protection gets deployed on the station's reading, which means either the whole block is protected at great cost or the wrong part of it is.

How the flight runs

Profile

Flights on clear cold nights build a temperature surface for the block at crop height.
Predict

The recorded drainage pattern is combined with the forecast to name tonight's cold pockets before dusk.
Warn

You get the pocket map and a lead time, so wind machines, candles or irrigation go where they will earn their cost.
Verify

A flight during the event records what the treated and untreated areas actually did.

What the aircraft carries

Radiometric thermal camera
Calibrated air temperature probe at crop height
RTK positioning

Through the frost risk window, on every clear night with a forecast minimum near the threshold.

What you receive

Cold pocket map for the block
Overnight risk brief
Event temperature record
Damage assessment flight

What it measures

Readings this capability produces on your fields. Measurements, not promises.

Temperature spread across the block
Area below the damage threshold
Lead time on the warning
Minutes spent below threshold per pocket

Where this carries the most weight

All use cases