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by topherhaddad 1961 days ago
Yeah great point, there are a number of agriculture applications that have no need for this level of spatial resolution. Certain high value crops only use drones today due to the resolution, so we'll be able to support those applications. Additionally, there's ways to combine visible + thermal to evaluate water crop stress to detect potential irrigation issues or improvements.

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treis 1961 days ago
>Certain high value crops only use drones today due to the resolution, so we'll be able to support those applications.

For a farm sized area, wouldn't an autonomous drone be a lot cheaper&better?

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Brajeshwar 1961 days ago
This is not a binary answer; it depends. It is also not "satellites or drones"; both can be used as complementary based on the degree of data precision needed and the budget in hand.
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treis 1961 days ago
Aren't drones cheaper and better?
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enriquto 1961 days ago
I guess drones are much more expensive. You can buy a satellite tasking plan for much less than a continuously running drone campaign for the same area.

Of course drones are better, as in having an arbitrarily high resolution and being 100% under your control.

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treis 1961 days ago
If I have a 2 sq km farm that I want pictures of once a week that will cost me $1500 through Albedo. Drones can be had for half that. I don't know that there's an out of the box solution that can automate it, but it seems like the better long term solution.
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Brajeshwar 1961 days ago
I believe the drones with a camera that can take such high precision shots (assuming hyperspectral) will cost lot more than that. For quick reference, check out DJI's Agri Drones[1].

For context; we talked to a few tea growers in the eastern side of India. They spend north of $150,000 - $200,000 on drones and UAVs to track/collect data over 20,000 hectares of tea farms. Our sample satellite date can do the same at a fraction of the cost though the precision drops by about 10%. The idea then now is to combine satellite imagery solution + occasional high-precision drone sweeps.

1. https://ag.dji.com/

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prewett 1961 days ago
I don't think I understand how pricing works, but at the most expensive level, it seems to be $15/km^2, so 2 km^2 once a week would be $30/week, right?
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