VERTICAL TAKE OFF AND LANDING AUTONOMOUS/SEMIAUTONOMOUS/REMOTE CONTROLLED AERIAL AGRICULTURAL SENSOR PLATFORM

Fecha de publicación: 18/09/2014
Fuente: Wipo "precision agriculture"
The invention provides for a vertical takeoff and landing capable aerial vehicle with multiple rotors that is designed to carry agricultural sensors and telemetry allowing for real time control of agricultural equipment in accord with sensor data. The ability to carry a suite of agricultural sensors combined with multiple rotors will allow the craft to operate quickly in hovering and longitudinal flight over rows of farm fields and other vegetation and use an NDVI imager and other sensors to take data readings and real time imagery which will allow farmers and other personnel to determine vegetation type, need for chemical applications, plant fertilization, irrigation requirements, and other vegetation features including types of vegetation present. This will allow for precision agricultural, vegetation, and crop management and for farmers it will increase the efficiency of precision agriculture operations.