Agro Engineering has been taking color and Infrared aerial photographs since 1980. Within the past few years, we've made tremendous advances in this program. With the advent of a new digital multispectral camera system and innovative computer programs, we produce an invaluable service for growers. These major advances enable us to produce and deliver images to the grower within days of the flight or sooner. Additionally, we are able to produce a crop health image which is extremely sensitive to crop vigor.
Because this new system uses GPS tracking and digital, rather than film media, an image product can be rapidly produced and interpreted. This fast turn-around time enables us to identify any problems and assist our clients in correcting them while there is still time to do so.
The multispectral feature of the camera enables it to separately sense green, red and near-Infrared light levels. These different light levels are mathematically manipulated to produce an image that is incredibly sensitive to crop health. This image indicates the amount of vegetative biomass (related to the number, size and layers of leaves), vegetative vigor (related to the thickness of the spongy layer of a leaf), and greenness of the leaves (related to fertility and chlorophyll levels in a leaf). The variation in this crop health index throughout the field shows areas of the healthiest crop and highlights problem areas. With the help of our consultants, efforts can be made to improve problems and increase crop yields and profits.
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