Aerial Imagery
New Offering: Servi-Tech’s CropView Program Best Option for Aerial Imagery using a drone, and saves the time and labor of even attempting to compete using a drone. The price per acre of this service is such that just about every customer I take it to is surprised and interested.
By Michael Murphy Senior Agronomist CropView is high quality aerial imagery. The service is available in Texas, Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, and South Dakota. It includes three images with every flight, including natural color, NDVI (plant vigor), and thermal. You can use a single image or a comparison of images to determine if there are issues in a particular field. Each image type has the unique ability to find stress in a field before being visible with the naked eye on the ground. If a potential area of stress is detected in an image, you can use the application on a smartphone or tablet to ground truth the area of concern. This service can cover 1,000 percent more acres per day than can be covered
What we think:
This kind of offering can set us apart from competitors. It can be a tool that allows us to scout/monitor fields with a level of precision that customers are expecting from their equipment and inputs. CropView can be a new offering that can get you on farms and into offices that have been out of reach. It helps us create new relationships with those people because it doesn’t feel like we are selling them something, but we are introducing them to a tool where they see potential. We are also offering a simple tool to help detect crop stress earlier, mitigating the potential for yield loss.
program details
8 a.m. Takeoff
4 p.m. Landing
5 p.m. Upload & processing
• Frequency: 12 flights in season taken every 10-14 days • Quality: 7-inch resolution • Imagery types: Natural color, thermal, and NDVI image with every flight • Delivery: Images will be viewable within the same website as soil moisture sensors The Cover Crop June 2017
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