Pendleton UAS

SOAR Oregon, a non-profit organization focused on the development of the Unmanned Aircraft Systems industry in Oregon, has announced a grant award to the City of Pendleton for the establishment of a FutureFarm™ project at the Pendleton, Oregon UAS Test Range. Digital Harvest is part of the team and their founder Young Kim talked with me.

"What we are doing in Pendleton at the unmanned aerial systems test site, the Pendleton test site is one of the six UAV or UAS test sites that were designated by the FAA a couple of years ago and what we are doing their is this notion of, when we project out where the puck is going to be, where the drones or unmanned puck is going to be a few years from now it is our view that the unmanned systems today is a point solution. It takes imagery from above but tomorrow, in the future, for it to have more value, unmanned systems need to be interconnected from a data perspective to other sensory data coming from the farm. From soil moisture sensors, from the tractors, from the irrigation centers and so on and so forth. If people believe in that vision and you have a piece of technology, where you go test your particular product and technology and that is what we are doing at Pendleton.