Publication date: October 2020 - No 129

Format: Downloadable PDF - 12 pages including ads

There is nothing better than checking a crop of pasture during “bank manager hour”. The golden afternoon light that bathes the biomass reflects a golden green light and makes a crop look its best. But if looking with a different set of eyes, could we see disease, stress or opportunity? There is a wide range of imagery solutions available for farmers but apart from generating brightly coloured maps of farms, can multi-spectral layers provide an insight and assist management decisions? Kondinin Group engineer, Ben White spoke with Tim Neale from DataFarming to explore the options, applications and benefits.

Includes the following articles:

• Combinations of spectrum bands
• The most useful imagery typically comes from a combination of imagery layers with varying levels of complexity in their derivation.
• Methods of capturing imagery
• Common crop and pasture imagery capture tools include satellite and small drones with the technology and capabilities of both options expanding at an increasing rate.
• Imagery selection, analysis and the future
• Selecting the most appropriate option, collecting images accurately and using the most suitable spectrum bands for the intended application are all important. But so too is managing and making sense of the imagery so it can be utilised to make more informed crop or pasture management decisions.

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