Ceres Imaging Plant Level Insights Pt 1
I’m Bob Larson. In our ever-changing, high-tech world of agriculture, aerial imagery is now helping farmers improve how they manage the irrigation of their fruit and nut tree orchards.
Ceres Imaging is at the forefront of this technology, using fixed-wing aircraft to buzz the orchards and quickly come away with specific information at the plant, or tree level, that farmers can access with a mobile app …
DIVAN … “What we can see is our same indicators of stressors that we’ve been really good at identifying of the last few years, but then being able to now interact with them digitally. So, if we want to sort and see trees that are only a certain stress level, whether that be good or bad, we can do that, we can count the number of trees that are highly stressed or need some kind of, say, treatment. So, taking that image that’s been there and been the really high-quality piece of information and then just making it actually interactive, and then something that can be sorted.”
Ceres Agronomy Lead Jeff Divan says that information is turned around within 24-hours …
DIVAN ... “Really, kind of the next step in the evolution of, you know I see what’s wrong with my fields, now, how do I go out and take action with it. This really kind of puts and sets the scope of, here is the level of this issue or here is the intensity of this issue and helps to prioritize where and when those fixes might take place.”
Tune in tomorrow for more on how Ceres Imaging can help growers measure crop water stress across their entire orchards, technology that hasn’t been available until now.
