Agriculture

As the industry revolution 4.0 continues to reshape the world, the agriculture sector is witnessing increasing use of intelligent machines. These machines are improving agricultural output and aiding mankind to overcome food shortage. As more remotely controlled machines replace human bring the latter are free to do value added work.

Precision Agriculture

The science behind increasing crop yield by the use of sensor technology and analytics is Precision Agriculture (PA). It is being adopted worldwide to increase crop production, reduce manual labour time and effective use of fertilizers and irrigation systems. The future of crop production will rely on intelligent monitoring of the conditions that affect crop production vis-à-vis soil condition, plant health, fertilizer / pesticide effect and irrigation outcome.

Remote Sensing of Environment

OUSL’s remotely controlled aerial systems can deliver high-spatial-resolution imagery that deliver enough evidence to detect any anomaly, locally. The detection is cost effective and hence corrective action to manage agricultural problems as cheaper as well as compare to low resolution satellite imagery. The lower cost of acquisition would naturally lead to more farmers adopting our unmanned aerial systems ( agricultural drones). These aerial systems make the farmers independent. As more farmers use these aerial systems they will have better control on the real time situations and increase their crop productivity.

Crop Analysis and Geo Mapping

Traditionally the crop analysis is done on foot or on a tractor, manually. It would take a lot of time for farmers to carry out this activity. It is not only labourious and time consuming, albeit not effective due to human errors and fatigue. With use of OUSL agricultural drones large land patches may now be surveyed in matter of a few hours at convenience of remote operation. Our aerial vehicles allow farmers to analyse the health of crops from skies with minimal effort and time.

Weed and Pest Control

Staple foods, for instance rice, wheat, cotton etc. are prone to crop failure due to weeds and pests. Locust plague or locust invasion is one such dreaded attack that can destroy crops in matter of minutes. In 2020 , 3.5 lakh hectares of crops were destroyed by locust attack in various districts of Rajasthan. Mustard, cumin and wheat crops were destroyed affecting lakhs of farmers.

Various government agriculture departments can put to good use, the OUSL drones to control the locusts.