Grassland and silage
Search before the mower moves
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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What actually goes wrong
First cut silage is the single most lethal operation of the farming year for wildlife. Roe deer leave fawns lying in tall grass and a fawn will press flat rather than run from a mower. In Germany the duty to take reasonable precautions falls on whoever is doing the mowing, and a line of volunteers walking a 12 hectare field before dawn is neither reliable nor repeatable. Separately, sward quality drifts: patches go back to weed grasses and nobody maps it until the analysis comes back poor.
How we set it up
A thermal search flown in the cool hours before the mower starts, with finds pushed live to the phone of whoever is on the ground, and a coverage record kept per field. Sward composition is mapped between cuts so reseeding is targeted. Drone broadcast handles the wet hollows and steep banks a machine should not be on.
The flight calendar across a season
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Thermal wildlife search with live find marking and a coverage record.
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Sward quality and weed grass mapping.
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Repeat searches on fields with known activity, plus yield estimates per cut.
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Overseeding of thin areas by drone where machinery cannot travel.
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Drainage and wet area mapping for the winter works list.
Capabilities in play, in order of how much they carry
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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.
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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.
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Drone seeding
Sow where the drill cannot go
Drones broadcast seed and seed pods onto ground that is too steep, too wet or too awkward for a machine.
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Yield forecasting
Count what is actually out there
Drones count plants, fruit or ears and turn the counts into a yield estimate for each part of the field.
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Livestock and fence checks
The daily round without the drive
Drones walk the fence line, count the herd and flag animals that are injured, missing or lying unusually still.
What you end up with
Recorded on your fields, flight by flight. Not a projection.
- A search record per field, signed off before the mower starts
- Finds logged with coordinates and outcome
- Reseeding targeted at mapped thin areas
- Cut yields estimated rather than counted off the clamp
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