To demonstrate the RTL-400’s capability in the area of precision agriculture, RedTail staff researched various agricultural flight options and hit on an idea: What better way to demonstrate the high-resolution, high-accuracy system than in one of the toughest challenges that could be found – a corn maze.

Aerial photography has played a major role in advancing operational precision agriculture applications. As image precision has gotten better, so too has the need for advanced research and powerful geospatial tools to learn best how to harvest such data-rich information into efficient, effective and reliable tools of the precision agriculture trade.

Exhilarating isn’t a word you typically associate with vegetation mapping surveys, but Dr. Whitney Broussard, a senior scientist at JESCO, chose that word – twice – in describing a drone-based survey along the state’s coastal marsh.

Simply put, forestry in Sweden is big business.

With its 27 member states, the European Union (EU) has some 12 million farmers who strive to reliably produce crops to feed about 500 million consumers, while simultaneously protecting the environment. 

When Anchorage, Alaska-based Evergreen Films agreed to enter a strategic partnership with NANA Development Corp. in September 2010, the independent film production studio saw a strong financial supporter.