geovantage agriculture imagery
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Aerial ImageryPractical Uses For The Farm
July 2014
• Scouting• Crop Health• VRT• Irrigation• Soil Sampling• Compaction• Crop Insurance• Tile Lines• Yield Correlation• Equipment Failures
Not Just A Pretty Picture
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Standard Delivery with Every Order• True Color (RBG)• NIR (Near Infrared)• NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation
Index)
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True color: 3 Bands1. Red2. Green3. Blue
Near Infrared Band
NDVI: Normalized Difference Vegetation Index
Calculated using the visible (R) and Non-visible (NIR)
The Farming Dollar
Crop Inputs
Seed Technology
Crop Insurance
Machinery & Power
$205 per acre
$18 per acre
$103 per acre
$92 per acre
$32 per acreStorage/Handling
Image courtesy of photosteve1014
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Deployed Camera Systems
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Five management zones based on relative crop vigor.
• Targeted efficient scouting
• Create VR application file(s)
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Bare Ground Image Near Infrared (NIR) Full Canopy Image True Color (RBG)
Tile Line LocationsSaturated Soils – Shows N Loss
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NDVI Yield File
Closely correlated to yield
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Severe Compaction at Planting**
• Center Fill Planter
– Wet Soils
– Weight Distribution
– Iron, Seed, Starter, etc
• Streaks occurred at drive path of tractor and planter every 60’ (24 row planter )
• April 10 Corn Planting into wet soil conditions
10**Courtesy of ISA
Yield Loss Due To Compaction
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Malbec blocks with tresseling system overlaid on crop vigor to aid fieldwork
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Gray Leaf Spot
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• Misapplication of N• Yield Monitor will not
show this data due to averaging across rows
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Tile Lines shows stress.
Misapplication of Nitrogen
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Each light green row is showing a malfunctioning knife in the row bar.
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