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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
Bob Westbrook VP Operations – TerrAvion
WEEKLY IMAGERY FOR AGRICULTURE
Affordable Solutions for Vineyard Management Optimization
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?
>1TB/day/aircraft
processing
How TerrAvion OverView Works
Output is delivered as a geo-referenced map and vegetative indices through web, iPad, and API Covered acres scanned each operational cycle by contract aircraft Custom integrated external sensor pod with COTS sensors
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The magic is the processing which allows the data to be delivered
Dude + Drone + Truck = Expensive
Where do you go this week?
Where do you
check for pests?
2013
What should get treated
together?
2 2 1 1
2014
To the naked eye, irrigation effect can be hard to discern, when differentiated across an entire
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
fewer times over the course of an
can cooperatively make decisions and monitor progress with less visits.
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Imagery can direct attention immediately to irrigation
transpiration are happening in your field including finding leaks in irrigation. A field in Davis with an irrigation leak.
Week B Week A Week C
Price per acre
Coppola benefit per acre
Implementation at Coppola
We are doing this by answering, “What do I have to fix right now?”
Revenue to the Grower’s Bottom Line
TerrAvion’s Goal
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
Bob Westbrook VP Operations, TerrAvion
QUESTIONS?
Too Expensive Not Good Enough
Unaided Ground Scouting Quality (Responsiveness , Resolution, Speed, etc.) Single Pass Cost per Acre, Fully Delivered Electric Copters Free $10 LANDSA T $1 Hand- Launched Fixed-Wing Legacy General Aviation Commercial Satellite Planned NanoSat Constellations Low High
Collection economics in area applications are counterintuitive: platform complexity (speed and altitude) makes things cheaper
Good & Affordable