Spring is here, and as agriculture professionals prepare for planting this season, we know that uating emergence will be top of mind. Accurate stand counts and early intervention can mean the difference between a successful harvest or major crop losses. But traditional ground sampling is imprecise and often involves a high margin of error.

Agremo, available on the DroneDeploy app market and in the Precision Agriculture subscription package, offers a cost-effective alternative to traditional stand counts that is easy and accurate. Drone-based stand counts let agriculture professionals pinpoint areas of potential yield loss and take corrective action at key times during the growing season. With the app, users can count plants across an entire field using maps produced in DroneDeploy. In a matter of hours, users receive a detailed report with information on stand density and emergence. This level of efficient analysis has made Agremo one of the most popular agriculture apps on the DroneDeploy App Market.

“We wanted to allow Ag businesses to improve their operations and save money, by relying on accurate information such as precise plant numbers. Our users recognized Agremo as an easy-to-use solution which quantifies what is actually happening in their fields, with no special skills required!” — says Milan, the CEO of AgremoWhat we’ve learned from our customers

During a recent trip, the Agremo team asked farmers to name a few things they struggle with in regards to stand count and stand establishment. They learned that over 75% of farmers have difficulties with plant loss due to inaccurate stand counts. When asked what they would do with data obtained from accurate stand counts and how this would benefit them, roughly 80% said that data would enable them to adjust their weed and pest control measures and address low germination rates in time. The remaining 20% said that accurate stand counts would make it possible for them to verify how effective an externally performed replanting was.

Plant Counts Today

Farmers typically perform stand counts by walking through the field, which is hugely time-consuming and far from accurate. What you see with your naked eye might be many hundreds or thousands of dollars away from what you could have achieved.

When faced with events that might have affected crop emergence, you must take action quickly. Within a short window of time, you must uate whether in-season course corrections are worth the cost, or if it’s best to reduce costs and let the field run its course. But traditional ground sampling methods offer very little information by which to make these crucial decisions. They involve taking a sample and extrapolating it across an entire field, which can in a high margin of error. At best, they offer a rough estimate of crop emergence.

One way to uate corn stands is the 1/1000th-acre method. To obtain the number of plants per acre, growers count the number of corn plants in a specific length of row (1/1000th of an acre) and multiply the number by 1000. This is then repeated in different locations in the field. Another method of taking stand counts is called the wheel method, where 150 plants are counted while measuring the distance using a measuring wheel. Multiple areas are sampled in the field, then the results are extrapolated across the entire field.

So, what can stand counts really help me uate?

Accurate stand counts are highly valuable to provide insight into the following early season activities:

Planter efficacy. Was my planter working properly? Do I need to make any adjustments or repairs before using it on other fields?Early season hybrid performance, and indicators of pest or disease pressureAreas to re-plant“Agremo counting reports allow my agricultural clients to uate sowing and make smart decisions early in the season on actual facts and precise counts. This definitely brings a certain level of confidence for everybody, and also makes my job as a drone service provider much more credible and appreciated” — Miguel Ángel Salgado, General Manager & Mapping Expert at Ansar Drone, Mexico.When should I be conducting stand counts this spring?

We recommend using Agremo on any variety of crops throughout the year, but below are a couple of common crop types, and recommendations on when to conduct drone-based stand counts:

Winter Wheat: uate yield loss

If you’re operating in an area that suffered a particularly cold winter, it’s important to see how the plants are responding to the weather. Once the snow has melted or once the cold weather is over, perform a plant population analysis to determine yield loss.

Corn and soy: uate emergence and determine areas to re-plant (V2-V4)

Estimate sowing quality and spot areas with low performance. The accurate number of plants and the location of low-performing areas will tell you whether or not to replant, assess early losses, and uate planter performance.

Easily create a soybean stand count report like this, to pinpoint areas of potential yield loss and take corrective action at key times during the growing season.How do I get access to and use Agremo stand counts?

Agremo is available to purchase per acre in the DroneDeploy app market, or you can purchase the Precision Ag Package that includes 1,000 acres of analysis. To use the app, install it from the DroneDeploy app marketplace, create an Agremo account, fly your fields, then submit the processed imagery to Agremo for analysis.

Learn More About Drones in AgricultureLearn how to make smarter agricultural cropmanagement decisions with drone maps and analysis in The Ultimate Guide to Drones on the Farm ebook.Get Started with DroneDeploy & AgremoLearn more about the Agremo app available on the DroneDeploy app market.Build trust with growers using the Precision Agriculture subscription package.Visit dronedeploy.com to start your free trial or request a consultation with one of our team members.The DroneDeploy mobile application is available for free download for both iOS and Android devices.

Reduce Yield Loss and Improve Stand Count Accuracy Using Agremo was originally published in DroneDeploy's Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Product Release Wrap-Up April 2019

10 April 2019 - DroneDeploy

DroneDeploy kicks off spring with the largest product release to date

In honor of spring, the season of renewal and growth, DroneDeploy is launching a suite of capabilities to help grow your drone program across your enterprise.

We’re excited to share what we have been working on for the past few months, including updates to inventory management, Live Map HD and much more. Read on to learn about the latest flight enhancements and updates to our beta features.

Create 360° Panoramas and Videos with a Couple of Taps

Create a visual record of your progress with a 360° panoramas.

It’s challenging to keep track of what’s happening on the job site and make sure that stakeholders on site and back at the office have the information they need to make decisions. Incomplete, outdated and inaccurate information contribute to delays, mistakes and cost-overruns. Imagine how much easier it would be to manage your project and keep executives and owners informed if everyone could see a visual record of your project progress!

Not only can you share maps and photos, now you can also share panoramas and videos and compare against the latest design plan revisions.

You can create an immersive experience for your home office stakeholders that really make them believe they are on site and have confidence in its progress…all without a plane trip and costly downtime. Just define your flight plan and click the button, let DroneDeploy take over in producing professional output every time.

Consistency is key when you are planning flights to capture your project. DroneDeploy’s flight templates eliminate repetitive work and create autonomous panoramic and video missions that you can re-fly again and again.

Panorama and video flight capture is available for all users using iOS devices, upload and hosting for panorama is available for Business and Enterprise customers.

Inventory ManagementTrack and Report the Total Quantity and Value of Materials on Site

Technology has come a long way from measuring materials with surveys, conveyors, or simply an experienced guess. With drone data, you can now measure materials more efficiently and accurately. DroneDeploy helps create stronger client relationships and less damaged or wasted inventory from over-production thanks to reliable, real-time data.

Stockpile Reports will give you the mass, volume, and value of each material on your job site.

Getting data on your stockpiles’ mass, volume, and value is as simple as entering your material attributes — density, currency, and value. Using this information, DroneDeploy will not only give real-time data of your stockpiles, but will generate a report displaying the value of each material.

And now you can make more accurate measurements than ever by calculating volumes using the Digital Terrain Model to exclude conveyors and other equipment.

We have always made it simple for you to manually measure your stockpiles, and in this release we are expanding our capability to speed up this entire process with Stockpile AI, your assistant to annotate and measure stockpile volumes with a single click.

When you select the Stockpile AI icon, DroneDeploy will automatically detect and highlight all stockpiles present on your map. You can then get instant volume measurement by selecting the stockpile you wish to measure. It’s that easy.

Once the volume annotation is created, it’s still possible to customize the stockpile boundary as you usually would. Keep in mind that like our other machine learning tools, your existing annotations and corrections power Stockpile AI — which will continue to improve the more you use it.

Materials and Stockpiles Reports are available to all Business and Enterprise customers, Stockpile AI is available for Enterprise customers only.

Ready for Growing SeasonReal-time Crop Scouting with Live Map HD

Live Map HD is the indispensable Agronomist’s tool. Your team can now conduct a high definition crop survey over hundreds of acres in minutes. They can identify & measure areas of concern at the field-edge, and apply instant plant-health filters help to identify drainage, irrigation, or chemical issues. Ground truthing is made simple with the iPad’s GPS for guidance.

Having data readily available in-field enables your agronomy team to make in-field assessments quickly and efficiently. Insurance claims specialists can accurately quantify crop damage and uate an insurance claim in minutes, helping growers to minimize lost time.

Instant Tree Counting with Count AI

Counting thousands of trees is a task that has traditionally required hours of walking in the field — Thankfully DroneDeploy’s new Count AI tool uses machine learning to make this whole process simple, with fully automatic tree counting for Almonds, Palms, and other orchard varieties. Count AI will automatically identify every tree in the areas you define, so you can rapidly quantify insured assets and estimate potential yield with high confidence.

Count AI also counts Cars and can be customized to identify all kinds of objects and anomalies in your maps.

Live Map HD is available to all paid plans. Talk to your account manager or contact sales about Count AI. Custom machine learning solutions are available.

Accurate Mapping is Faster Than Ever

Two new improvements make it faster and easier than ever to generate a highly accurate map. DroneDeploy can now process calibrated imagery from the Phantom 4 RTK drone, enabling survey-grade mapping with a 15-minute workflow. Reliable, repeatable, 2-inch accuracy without the hassle of Ground Control Points, even over large areas.

If you are using GCPs, the process of tagging the points in your images just got faster and easier. Our new Ground Control AI, trained using over 200,000 human-tagged GCPs, will automatically pinpoint GCP locations for you.

DroneDeploy’s cloud processing now supports up to 10,000 images per map, with our Large Map Processing module. Customers are already surveying huge sites for renewable energy cost & yield uation, and square miles of rail yards at cm-level resolution. With support for over 100 ground control and check points and distributed cloud processing, you can expect high-accuracy results in a fraction of the time you are used to from desktop processing solutions, saving you the cost of building and maintaining your own in-house photogrammetry servers.

Radiometric Thermal Processing

See the unseeable with Radiometric Thermal Flights and Processing. Whether you are working with solar, oil and gas, or insurance, Radiometric Thermal Flights detect problems that are invisible to the naked eye.

If you work with insurance, you can use Radiometric Thermal Processing to help find water ingress, roof degradation, weather damage, and low-quality installations. For Oil & gas, you will be able to see underground pipelines, identify leaks and hotspots. Even in solar you can detect string outages, faulty modules, and even sub-module defects over hundreds of acres — you can find every major problem on a 50MW solar site in a couple of days, rather than 5 months of walking the site. With DroneDeploy’s Radiometric Thermal Processing, the benefits are endless.

Radiometric Thermal Processing is available to all Enterprise Customers.

Integrations and SecurityKeep Projects on Schedule with Procore and Autodesk Integrations

Is your project on track and aligned to design? With Project Overlays you can monitor your progress with ease. Whether you need to QA a post tension cable or validate as-builts, your teams can use the new Autodesk BIM 360 and Procore integrations to overlay drawings that will stay up to date with the latest revisions.

Sharing progress with your team with the latest and relevant data can be tricky. Making decisions with outdated information is a safety risk, costs money, and delays your project. Using the latest Autodesk BIM 360 and Procore integrations, you now can also automatically synchronize progress photos with your team. The project stakeholders, from management to engineers to owners, can all access the photos in the relevant Procore daily log or folder in Autodesk BIM 360.

Want to put your maps on the Autodesk BIM 360 dashboard so that everyone sees the same job site and progress? No problem — DroneDeploy has partnered with Autodesk to bring you an embedded DroneDeploy experience from right within Autodesk BIM 360.

Available on request for Enterprise Customers.

Integrate your enterprise workflow with the DroneDeploy SDK

We are proud to introduce the DroneDeploy SDK, a powerful customization and automation tool designed to boost operational efficiency. Suitable for larger enterprise-level firms as well as start-ups in sectors like energy, agriculture, and construction, the SDK platform sports four modules — UI toolkit, Datastore, Functions, and Triggers — that help automate even the most complex use cases.

It’s Official: We’re ISO 27001 Certified

We are committed to the security and protection of our customer’s data. DroneDeploy is the only cloud drone operations and data platform to have achieved the ISO 27001 certification, the international standard outlining best practices for information security management systems.

We have successfully implemented controls and procedures across our organization and our IT environments that help demonstrate our commitment to security excellence. Read about how we worked with Google to deliver the highest security commercial drone data platform on the market.

New to DroneDeploy App Market

Atmosoar

Don’t forget to check out Windsock by Atmosoar.io one of the latest additions in our App Market. Windsock brings real-time weather to DroneDeploy, for the safety of your next flight. Install it for your next flight to have current wind and weather conditions right when you need it.

Where to Learn MoreTo try out the newest features, sign into DroneDeploy.Learn about all of our features on DroneDeploy’s Support Page.Watch our Product Keynotes from DroneDeploy Conference 2018 to learn more about these new features.Get Started with DroneDeploy

Want to learn how DroneDeploy can help your business? Visit www.dronedeploy.com to start your free trial or request a consultation with one of our team members. The DroneDeploy mobile application is available for free download for both iOS and Android devices.

Product Release Wrap-Up April 2019 was originally published in DroneDeploy's Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Introducing DroneDeploy’s SDK

2 April 2019 - DroneDeploy

Powerful new customization & automation platform addresses workflow efficiency & productivity

Emerging construction firms such as Menlo Park-based Katerra have relied on DroneDeploy’s new SDK and APIs to make their workflows more efficient while delivering data faster. Katerra has created a custom solution for pilots to automate image uploads to both a cloud storage service and DroneDeploy’s map engine. By bringing automation to this time-intensive step, Katerra has been able to spend more time focusing on scaling their drone program.

As the leading software platform in the commercial-drone space, DroneDeploy continues to revolutionize the way data is gathered and managed across a range of industries, from agriculture and solar to mining and more. In 2017, we launched the DroneDeploy App Market in order to allow our partners to customize and extend DroneDeploy, and today, they have successfully built over 60 applications using our unique platform. However, the desire for a fully customizable and extensible DroneDeploy has resonated beyond just our developer community. We also recognize that every enterprise has different needs, and that a scalable drone platform that offers room for growth is a key requirement for today’s most innovative companies.

Accordingly, we are proud to introduce the DroneDeploy SDK, a powerful customization/automation tool designed to boost operational efficiency. Suitable for larger enterprise-level firms as well as start-ups in sectors like energy, agriculture, and construction, the SDK platform sports four modules — UI toolkit, Datastore, Functions and Triggers — that help automate even the most complex use cases.

“The DroneDeploy SDK has saved us countless hours — automating our workflows has allowed us to expand our drone program into more job sites” — Ray Pascua, UAV Specialist at KATERRA

Here’s a look at what’s inside SDK:

UI Kit: This toolkit allows clients to build a customized DroneDeploy interface to meet custom objectives and use cases, such as obtaining regional weather information from drone mapping in order to avoid turbulent weather conditions across the drone’s flight path.

Datastore: A fully customizable data table creation tool, Datastore acts like a spreadsheet, allowing users to house any kind of information they want within DroneDeploy, from customer records to inventory data, which can later be accessed on a fully secure basis and displayed in any number of configurations. Using Datastore, for instance, firms can quickly retrieve information around a crop field’s treatment, an asset’s serial number, or any other pertinent data.

Functions: Having advanced monitoring capability won’t matter if the data can’t be continually and accurately updated. Using the serverless architecture of the SDK Functions module, customers can run their server code directly from the app to securely sync current server data with the drone-deployed UI.

Triggers: With Triggers, clients will be able to create event-driven use cases, such as setting an alert threshold whenever stockpiles need to be replenished. Here, fully automated software notifications allow users to respond to events such as “processing complete” and “export complete” as needed. Once map data is ready to be exported, just set the configurations and automation takes over from there. Multi-action capabilities allow exported information to be directed to the company’s servers as well as to Procore or Autodesk, and users may send unique notifications to stakeholders as well.

Exploration/production company Anadarko Petroleum Corporation is planning to utilize DroneDeploy SDK to integrate DroneDeploy with its internal tools. As part of this effort, Anadarko will programmatically create flight plans using DroneDeploy’s APIs and, with SDK’s Triggers function, automate exports to its internal GIS tools to create a seamless workflow upon flight completion.

Programmatic access through APIs

Through the UI Kit or Functions tool, the SDK platform can work with existing DroneDeploy APIs to transport, transform and automate each use case. The DroneDeploy API gives users comprehensive programmatic access to DroneDeploy’s functions and data, while keeping security a top priority.

With DroneDeploy SDK, it is simple to automate your workflows and save valuable time. Having a consistent automated workflow is the key to improving productivity, and by doing so, our customers will be able to spend more time analyzing the valuable data collected through DroneDeploy. With these new tools, we hope to have made it easier to achieve this than ever before.

Try SDK today

Start automating your workflows with the DroneDeploy SDK — if you are already an Enterprise customer, contact sales@dronedeploy.com to request your API key.

Where to Learn MoreLearn more about the SDK with our developer documentation.Have more questions? Schedule a chat with our sales team.Get Started with DroneDeploy

Introducing DroneDeploy’s SDK was originally published in DroneDeploy's Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

3 Construction Challenges Drones Are Making Easier

27 March 2019 - DroneDeploy

Simplifying life on the jobsite one drone at a time

Construction sites across the world rely on drone technology to plan, monitor, and track the progress of their ongoing projects. Used by everyone from the site superintendent to the C-level executive, the real-time data capabilities of DroneDeploy-equipped machines offer unparalleled insights into the construction process, helping companies stay safely on budget, on time.

While every undertaking is unique, many construction projects run into the same kinds of issues that can slow down progress or cause harm to workers on the ground. Here are three of the major construction challenges that drones now solve on a regular basis:

1. Planning Complex Projects

Accurately surveying your job site or project requires a tremendous amount of work. Whether it’s grading the land or uating site conditions, anything to help streamline the project planning process and shave weeks off of the project can end up saving significant amounts of money.

DroneDeploy software simplifies project planning through its aerial site intelligence capabilities. Tracking the progress of any construction project from start to finish, drones use aerial imagery to create real-time maps through which managers can inspect locations and make proactive decisions via actionable data.

2. Mitigating Dangerous Conditions

In the world of construction, nothing is more paramount than the safety of the workers with boots on the ground. Weather conditions, natural disasters or other hazardous conditions can get in the way of construction, impeding progress and potentially putting the construction crew at risk.

Drones equipped with live maps make it possible to accurately assess the real-time conditions for workers on any construction site. By surveying the site from a bird’s-eye view, construction crews will be able to proactively address any potential risks and keep danger at arm’s length.

3. Edging Over Glacier-like Technology

Construction tools of the past may have had access to limited technology that made it somewhat easier to assess, plan and execute projects, but many legacy solutions often required extra steps or access points to recover information. Downloading gigabytes of data from an SD card or over a weak internet connection could take hours or days — before the data could even be used for anything.

With Live Map, get real-time insights power real-time decisions in the field.

Instant Insights from DroneDeploy’s Live Map are just that, providing data that’s captured in real-time with no additional capabilities required to process or transmit the information. High-resolution maps can be shared with clients, collaborators and team members instantly, without the need to go back to the office and wait for files to load.

Where to Learn More

Interested in learning more about how drones and technology can improve safety and efficiency on construction sites?

Read our recent eBook to get a better idea of the leading technologies and how to implement them.

Or tune into our ongoing construction webinar series:

Improving Commercial Inspections and Job Site Safety with Drones Getting the Green Light for Your In-House Drone Program Managing Construction Projects with Drone Data Tracking and Communicating Site Progress with Drones

Ready to bring drones to your job site? Read our guide to starting a drone program.

Get Started with DroneDeploy

3 Construction Challenges Drones Are Making Easier was originally published in DroneDeploy's Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

Corteva Agriscience™ Deploys The Largest Agricultural Drone Fleet In The World

25 February 2019 - DroneDeploy

The world’s largest agricultural drone fleet is transforming the way farmers manage their crops. Through a collaboration with Corteva Agriscience™, Agriculture Division of DowDuPont, DroneDeploy’s advanced mapping software is powering Corteva Agriscience’s fleet of more than 400 DJI drones across the company’s global teams, including:

Seed ProductionSupply ChainPioneer Strategic Account ManagementAgronomy

Spanning three continents, DroneDeploy’s Live Map technology provides Corteva Agriscience’s UAV fleet of DJI drones with immediate insights to diagnose and correct agronomic, disease, and pest concerns, as well as to suggest locations for optimal product placement.

“We are aggressively uating and implementing decision agronomy tools like DroneDeploy to enable ouragronomists and contract seed growers to make timely decisions impacting seed yields and quality.” — Matt Kurtz,Corteva Agriscience™ Global Seed Technology Lead

Agriculture may be as old as civilization itself, but thanks to new technologies that make it easier to monitor crops and maximize yields, the industry remains on the cutting edge. In less than 15 minutes, advanced UAV technology can survey a 160-acre field to identify variations in plant soil and health, giving farmers direct access to real-time aerial views and data to help make informed agronomic decisions. The result is a full-scale drone operation that gives agronomists and contract seed growers the ability to make timely determinations that directly impact seed yields and quality.

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DroneDeploy’s Live Map technology provides real-time crop insights that enable growers to take immediate agronomic actions in the field. Whether it’s identifying an area that lacks irrigation or a particular crop that’s sprouting better (or worse) than expected, agricultural UAVs enable farmers to course correct issues through powerful, data-driven insights. Once drone fleets are ready to be deployed to field teams, drone operators undergo training to determine how to harness the power of aerial technology and ensure that operations adhere to local aviation regulations.

Utilizing UAVs developed by DJI, the collaboration between Corteva Agriscience and DroneDeploy brings some of the world’s most powerful agriscience solutions together with the world’s leading commercial drones and commercial drone software. Corteva Agriscience’s portfolio of products includes some of the world’s most recognizable brands in agriculture, including Pioneer, Brevant seeds, and Encirca and Granular, as well as Crop Protection products developed through active chemistry and technology.

DJI, the world leader in commercial and civilian drones, makes up more than 70% of the drone market and offers a wide variety of UAV products across many different industries. Combined with DroneDeploy’s user-friendly platform for real-time sharable drone maps and 3D models, farmers and agronomists across the globe will be able to carry out data-driven actions to keep fields full, healthy, and ready for seasons to come.

Where to Learn MoreLearn more about the improvements to the DroneDeploy Map Engine.Explore the DroneDeploy App Market to see more than 80 apps you can use today to generate insights with drone data.eBook: Drones in Agriculture

Be sure to read our latest eBook, The Ultimate Guide to Drones on the Farm.

Download our free eBook to learn more about drones in agriculture.Drones in agriculture webinar seriesDrones in Agriculture: Putting Your Drone to Work in the Field Mapping and Analyzing Crops: Tips and Tricks from the Ag Pros Drones in Agriculture: Getting the Most out of Your UAV This Growing SeasonGet Started with DroneDeployPut your drone to work with our new Precision Ag Package.Visit dronedeploy.com to start your free trial or request a consultation with one of our team members.The DroneDeploy mobile application is available for free download for both iOS and Android devices.

Corteva Agriscience™ Deploys The Largest Agricultural Drone Fleet In The World was originally published in DroneDeploy's Blog on Medium, where people are continuing the conversation by highlighting and responding to this story.

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