WEEKLY IMAGERY FOR AGRICULTURE Affordable Solutions for Vineyard Management Optimization Bob Westbrook VP Operations – TerrAvion
TerrAvion: Who we are CEO led the first Army drone platoon in Afghanistan CTO led large field robotics engineering teams
Visual Control of Operations: Farms are multi-$M factories, where everything changes every week, and management can’t see it
Why Now? • Rural Broadband / 4G Access • Falling Cost of Storage (AWS) – We generate >1TB/day/aircraft • TerrAvion Innovations in automated image processing
How TerrAvion OverView The magic is the processing which allows Works the data to be delivered overnight for cheap Covered acres scanned Custom integrated each operational cycle by external sensor contract aircraft pod with COTS sensors Output is delivered as a geo-referenced map and [Not to scale] vegetative indices through web, iPad, and API
Dude + Drone + Truck = Expensive
Where do you go this week?
Where do you check for pests?
? 2 1 2013 What should get treated or harvested together? 2 1 2014
To the naked eye, irrigation effect can be hard to discern, when differentiated across an entire field. However, with multiple bands, and repetitive imagery to watch the effects of week to week changes, vineyard managers can dramatically improve vineyard uniformity.
Easily target missing crops or anomalies. Missing vines are counted in minutes on a computer rather than hours on an ATV and the counter’s work is just as quickly inspected.
Imagery shows field work including soil amendments as they are happening week to week. This allows senior management to visit outlying ranches fewer times over the course of an intervention. They 2 can cooperatively make decisions and monitor progress with less visits.
Week C Imagery can direct attention immediately to irrigation anomalies. Observe where evaporation and transpiration are happening in your field including finding leaks in irrigation. Week B A field in Davis with an irrigation leak. Week A
Implementation at Coppola $30 $2,568 Price per acre Coppola benefit per acre
TerrAvion’s Goal 10% Revenue to the We are doing this Grower’s by answering, “What do I have Bottom Line to fix right now?”
Looking forward to 2016 CWSI – Water stress index models in development now with noted U.C. scientists Yield Estimation – Stand/mass counts for leafy vegetables Difference Alerts – Notifies of anomylous changes week over week
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QUESTIONS? Bob Westbrook VP Operations, TerrAvion
Collection economics in area applications are counterintuitive: platform complexity (speed and altitude) makes things cheaper Too Expensive High Good & Affordable Electric Hand- Copters Launched Fixed-Wing Quality (Responsiveness Legacy , Resolution, General Speed, etc.) Aviation Planned Unaided NanoSat Ground Constellations Scouting Commercial Satellite Not Good LANDSA T Low Enough $1 $10 Free Single Pass Cost per Acre, Fully Delivered
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