austin jensen, aggieair

46
AggieAir A Remote Sensing Unmanned Aerial System for Precision Agriculture

Upload: suas-news

Post on 20-Aug-2015

87 views

Category:

Technology


0 download

TRANSCRIPT

AggieAirA Remote Sensing Unmanned Aerial System for Precision

Agriculture

What is AggieAir?

A Remote Sensing UAS for Scientific Applications

A Remote Sensing UAS for Scientific Applications

A Remote Sensing UAS for Scientific Applications

A Remote Sensing UAS for Scientific Applications

A Remote Sensing UAS for Scientific Applications

Field Equipment – Launch/Land from Anywhere

Fully Autonomous

Co-Scientist – Collects Visual, Near-Infrared, and Thermal

… in Support of Science and Natural Resource Management

Operations

Data Processing

Precision Agriculture

Nitrogen maps 5 weeks after germination and during early flowering

Top zone soil moisture (volumetric water content)

Root zone soil moisture (volumetric water content)

Precision AgricultureVineyard Application

Precision AgricultureViable Business?

Viability Challenges

•Delivering Actionable Information• Taking action on the data• Timeliness (less than 12 hours)•Minimum viable flight time coverage area (2500 acres +)•Minimum viable flight altitude (1000ft AGL +)

Thank you!Austin Jensen | [email protected] | aggieair.usu.edu