Drones in

Agriculture

Presented By:

Dennis Wallin

[DW]

https://www.ars.usda.gov/plains-area/el-reno-ok/grazinglands-research-laboratory/

• Graduated from Harrah High School – High School Diploma

• Graduated from Redlands Community College – Business Management

• Graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University – B.B.A.

• Attending Oklahoma State University – Masters in Plant & Soil Science

Family• Born in Midwest-City, OK

• Raised in Eastern Oklahoma County (Harrah, OK)

• Married: 5 Children and 1 Grandchild

• Own and Operate a 25 acre Angus Cattle Farm in Cogar, Oklahoma (Caddo County)

• State Certified Welder (Mig, TIG, Stick)

• Manual Machinist Operations

• CNC Machinist Operation and Programming

• Commercial Sign and Electrical Business Owner

• Redlands Community College Librarian Manager

• Redlands Community College I.T. & Distance Education Dept.

• State of Oklahoma – Historical Society Exhibit Technologist

• U.S.D.A. – Agriculture Research Service – Supv./Lead Technologist

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• Advancing Technology – Robotics – Continuing Education

• Soccer – Play – Coach

• Skateboarding – Teaching kids – Relaxing and Fun

Why Agriculture Technology?

• Charles Hayes from Wellston, Oklahoma, trained astronauts to fly spacecraft

• Charles Hobson Dry from Ardmore, Oklahoma, helped test space suits to make sure they were safe and that astronauts could move in them in order to complete their tasks

• Carole Ann McLemore from Tulsa, Oklahoma, helped design spare parts for the International Space Station.

• Jeffrey Morgan Moore, who attended the University of Oklahoma, is a scientist who studies rocks and soil from Mars and Jupiter

• Charles R. Thomas, from Ada, Oklahoma, was a computer programmer and worked on the Apollo program

• Gary L. Tesch from El Reno, Oklahoma, served as a lawyer for NASA.

• Wiley Post, a famous pilot, worked with General Motors (GM) to develop a suit that would allow a human to fly at never before flown altitudes.

• Leroy Gordon Cooper Jr., Thomas Stafford, Fred Haise, Stuart Allen Roosa, Owen Garriott, William Pogue, Shannon Lucid, John Herrington, James Webb, Jerry Elliott, Donna Shirley, Velma Clark, Geraldyn Cobb

1955 Ford

UAV Race Track and UAV Development Site: Wallin Family Farm

Minco/Cogar, Oklahoma

DEM - ORTHO – 3D Model – Dense Cloud

• Pilot (PIC) and Observer

• Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

• Integrated Camera and Gimbal

• Guidance App on Cell Phone or Tablet

• Setup of Automated Mapping Method within Guidance

App

• Extra Batteries

• Good Weather

• Between 11 AM and 1 PM is best time to Map with UAV

Select

• Purchase of Software: $1500 and up

• Time to learn Software: ???

• Ownership of Map and Data is usually discussed in pricing

What is Next?

• Swarm Drone Spraying for Herbicide, Fertilizer, and Water.

• First FAA approved Agricultural swarming drones within the USA

• Seattle, Washington

• Swarm Planting of Trees or Crops

• Utilizing compressed air to fire seed into the ground

• Seed is made of hardened Fertilizer and seed is safe in center

• (2) systems I know of currently working “DroneSeed and BioCarbon Engineering”

• I have built (2) systems using: Compressed Air and Plastic BB gun triggered

remotely via Arduino device.

Hand’s Free Farming and

Ranching:

1st Harvest September 2017

• 300,000 Wind Turbines and Growing in our Region

• 53 Wind Turbines in 2016 was inspected in Kansas

• $26,000 contract

• 8 Turbines a day - “This Can easily be doubled”

• $4300 a day

• Set to be a $6 Billion industry by 2024