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Drone Spot Spraying: A Sustainable Solution for Protecting Land
Spot spraying is the perfect solution to reach the inaccessible gullies and hilly slopes. Whether you need to clean up some edges, a few scattered bushes or an infestation, our drones make light work of invasive weeds. Gorse, blackberry, Woolly nightshade, Pampas or Pasture thistles; using artificial intelligence we can detect and target only the weeds, saving on herbicide costs.
Use drone precision spot spraying on weeds, carpet bombing was so last century.
Scout for Weeds
Depending on complexity, we can conduct a preliminary assessment of the target area to detect hidden weeds from above. With comprehensive weed identification, we can automate the process, saving time and herbicide costs. A clear scope ensures all intended targets are hit.
Our machines get into places people and wheels can’t, getting a better perspective from above, preventing unwanted, future spread.
Analyze and Plan
Using AI assistance to detect target weeds, we can monitor vast land space rapidly, prepare a spray map to only spray where necessary, eliminating blanket spray methods, saving collateral and herbicide costs.
Our software learns from your unique landscape, identifying weeds from within crops, bush, pasture or whatever unique landscape you might have. This determines the spray map which the spray drone will follow.
Even if this is a manual mission, we go in with a plan!
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Commence Spraying
Apply herbicides evenly, while keeping soil and surrounding vegetation disturbance to a minimum, while ensuring an effective kill, top down.
The spray is calibrated to only use what's necessary, where necessary. Saving time and chemical use.
All spraying is GNSS tracked to confirm proof-of-placement.
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Gorse and Other Brushweed
Gorse and brushweed like to set up shop in the hard-to-reach spots. Steep gullies, rocky paddocks, scrubby river banks. They love places where a ute, tractor or quad can’t go. Which means manual work is slow, and repeat regrowth is a constant headache. Attacking from above gives thorough coverage and minimal exposure to chemical spray.
Challenges of Controlling Gorse and Brushweed
Getting even herbicide coverage across dense or rough terrain is tough. What would be a half-day hike into a gorge with a knapsack, suddenly becomes a 5-minute setup and fly across. Now that’s time and money saved! Most invasive weeds need a follow-up, this ease of access, allows for faster follow-up treatments to nip weeds in the bud.
Innovative Solutions
Drones can be preprogrammed with a prescription map, targeting only the needed areas. If a prescription map is not necessary, we can manually fly missions using our FPV camera onboard, visually identifying targets and painted on a GPS map with RTK precision. Drones are ideal on steep or fragile ground where you just don’t want boots or tyres. Labour and treatment times drop too, which adds up over a season. Shorter jobs, fewer repeat visits. It’s practical big blocks, and for lifestyle property. It’s flexible, and it saves money over time. Captured data can also support other plans and activities, outside of future spray operations.
Ideal Applications: Steep and Remote Terrain
If your block is steep, broken up, or simply inaccessible by ground gear, drones are your go-to. They deliver herbicide without risking operator safety and without mauling the soil. Gullies, awkward little pockets of scrub behind a fence line. Drones get in, spray properly, and get out. Simple as that.
