Scouting and Mapping Drones

A scouting drone is simply an extra set of eyes over your fields. It flies itself along a plan we set up, photographs every hectare, and turns what it sees into a plain-English report you can act on. It spots trouble — poor establishment, hunger, weeds, wet patches, pests and disease — often days before you’d see it from the ground, so you can treat the problem while it’s still small and cheap to fix. You don’t need to be technical: you press go in the morning, and the answers come back to you.

We supply two scouting drones, a light, one-person machine that suits most farms, and a bigger, longer-flying platform for large estates and contractors, both backed by our own FarmingByDrone reporting service.

The Scouting Drone (for most farms)

The everyday machine: light enough to carry in one hand, quick to launch, and simple to run — it flies itself. In a single flight of around 43 minutes it can cover roughly 200 hectares, capturing both an ordinary high-detail photo of the field and special crop-health imagery that reveals stress your eye can’t see yet.

What it gives you

• A clear, field-wide picture of where your crop is strong and where it’s struggling
• Early warning of problems — often days before they show on the ground
• Centimetre-accurate maps that line up perfectly with your fields, year after year
• Ready-to-use spray and spread maps for your machinery
• A direct feed into our reporting service — you never touch complicated software