GeoVantage Precision Agriculture Aerial Imagery Advantages

1. Aerial Imagery
Practical Uses For The Farm
July 2014

2. • 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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3. Standard Delivery with Every Order
• True Color (RBG)
• NIR (Near Infrared)
• NDVI (Normalized Difference Vegetation
Index)
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True color: 3 Bands
1. Red
2. Green
3. Blue
Near Infrared Band
NDVI: Normalized Difference
Vegetation Index
Calculated using the visible (R)
and Non-visible (NIR)

4. 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 acre
Storage/Handling
Image courtesy of photosteve101
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6. Deployed Camera Systems
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7. Five management
zones based on
relative crop vigor.
• Targeted efficient
scouting
• Create VR application
file(s)
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8. Bare Ground Image Near Infrared (NIR) Full Canopy Image True Color (RBG)
Tile Line Locations
Saturated Soils – Shows N Loss
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9. NDVI Yield File
Closely correlated to yield
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10. 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
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**Courtesy of ISA

11. Yield Loss Due To Compaction
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14. Malbec blocks with tresseling system overlaid on crop vigor to aid fieldwork
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15. Gray Leaf Spot
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16. • Misapplication of N
• Yield Monitor will not
show this data due to
averaging across rows
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17. Tile Lines shows
stress.
Misapplication of
Nitrogen
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18. Each light green row is
showing a
malfunctioning knife in
the row bar.
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22. To learn more on the value of having in-
season, on-demand aerial imagery please
find us here:
Website: http://www.geovantage.com
Email: aginfo@geovantage.com
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