A High-Tech Drone to Better Understand Crop Health image
A High-Tech Drone to Better Understand Crop Health image

A High-Tech Drone to Better Understand Crop Health

Maintaining Biodiversity and Developing Sustainable Agriculture

Agricultural drones provide a fast and efficient way to scout crops, track plant growth, identify stress and much more. ETH spin-off Wingtra is the leading manufacturer of VTOL (vertical take-off and landing) drones for mapping and surveying.  

A High-Tech Drone to Better Understand Crop Health image

The vertical take-off and landing drone made by Wingtra provides a number of benefits. Among other things, it enables you to monitor crops quickly and efficiently, identify water stress in certain plants, create treatment plans and monitor the growth of plantations. The drone is equipped with a high-resolution camera (up to 42MP) and multispectral sensors, which together provide aerial readings of unparalleled image quality and precision. The device can thus identify problems on crops to an accuracy of up to one centimetre, enabling producers to better target plant protection treatments, in some cases salvage harvests and reduce crop-monitoring costs. The Wingtra drone combines the convenience of vertical take-off and landing with the endurance of a fixed-wing drone capable of monitoring medium to large-scale projects. In addition, it is up to 80% faster than ground-based methods or traditional four-blade propeller drones. The technology is also used in topography, mining, construction and environmental monitoring applications. The Wingtra drone is marketed in more than 40 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Mongolia, Uganda and the United States.