The land belongs to the experimental didactic station “Criuleni”. Half of a wheat field of 73 ha in the village of Onitcani will be treated with herbicides using a drone, and the other – with a sprinkler and a tractor. DRON Assistance, a company financially supported by UNDP Moldova and the European Union, provides, with the help of drones, intelligent services to Moldovan farmers: pest and weed management, mapping and monitoring of agricultural lands.Īgricultural drones take over pest and weed management By combining this technology with an RGB or thermal camera, it is capable of various missions ranging from emergency, rescue, reconnaissance, and inspection.Ecological and efficient, drones are modern agriculture’s know-how, which comes to complement sprinklers and tractors. Drone4Agro has successfully equipped a drone with 100,000 high lumen light source which has a flight time of 30 minutes. To ensure clear and useful visual information can be obtained by the drone during mission, a drone equipped with high lumen light source could come in handy especially for night missions or when the environment has limited light. Practical tests had shown a landing accuracy of around +/-15cm.ĭrone4Agro is also conducting research in other drone technologies and applications that could assist search and rescue missions and perimeter surveillance. Prototype of docking station for recharging the drone.
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This idea initiated the development of the docking station technology that includes the software development for precise autonomous landing, auto-correction in windy conditions and the implementation of a scaled docking station for electric charging and liquid refilling. Winfried Rijseenbeek, the CEO and founder of Drone4Agro, mentioned that agricultural drones should be able to accomplish tasks on the fields, as well as capable to extend their operating time by recharging and refilling without the need of a human operator. One challenge in agricultural drones at the moment is its payload limitation. Currently, the company offers drones that can carry different equipment up to 80 kg with around 20 minutes of flight time, extendable to 1.5 hours if a range extender is used.Īgridrone Valck – custom made mega drone of 80 kg payload being tested By selecting different drone designs, the flight duration, flying speed and payload can be optimized for different applications in order to reduce costs. Understanding that small open field horticulturalist and greenhouse owner have different needs than larger crop producers, the goal of Drone4Agro is to build tailor-made agricultural drones for spraying and fertilizing crops.Ĭustomers can choose between a normal-sized quadcopter and up to nine-meters width mega drone equipped with different types of spraying systems such as point sprayers and boom sprayer.
The expertise of Drone4Agro includes spraying drones for precision agriculture and docking stations for recharging and refilling of the drones. Drone4Agro ( ), one of the partners in the SPECTORS project, focuses on developing drone technologies for the agricultural sectors.
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