Horticulture

Growers in the Horticulture sector look to new technologies to help them make irrigation and other decisions to maximise the quality and/or yield, as well as the timeliness of harvest. Our time in this industry, working closely with growers and agronomists who cover all aspects of horticulture, has allowed us to learn how to meet those needs effectively and affordably.

We enable growers to save time, save money and increase productivity through our 10m resolution remote sensing services and our product, AgIntel, whilst our higher-resolution on-demand offerings bridge the gap between in-field or on-pivot sensors and save money on drone or fixed wing flights. All of our technologies have been extensively tested and proven by growers and agronomists before reaching market, following our rigorous validation procedures.

Those time savings come in many different ways:

• Remotely monitoring blocks, and highlighting problem areas
• Conducting remote scouting of their crop or land status (health, moisture, chlorophyll, stress, etc.)
• Automatically detecting frost-damaged plants, and quantify damaged areas 
• Benchmarking crops using simple tools (by crop, variety, field or farm)
• Creating variable rate maps quickly and easily based on multiple image layers
• Assessing relative abundance of topsoil minerals prior to sowing
• Viewing subsoil moisture maps of blocks (given a single soil moisture probe for calibration)

Many of these services deliver cost savings to horticulture producers and agronomists, through reduced scouting, knowledge of issues before they would otherwise be spotted (e.g. water leaks, damaged crops), and the ability to use variable rate sprayers with the right application mix over only the areas needed. Overall, profitability can be increased through the combination of cost savings, greater efficiencies, and better outputs through decision farming — made possible by intelligent remote sensing.

For more details about our agriculture products and services please get in touch.