Crop Monitoring

Finca La Suiza validates an onboard crop-counting system that uses drone imagery, computer vision, and geospatial analysis to monitor banana plants in the field.

Business impact

• Time to complete crop counts — Manual counting previously took four days with four to six workers, or around seven days from aerial imagery.
• Labor required for crop counting — The manual process previously required four to six field workers.

Data requirements

• Drone imagery (image) — Used as the visual input for crop counting.
• GPS tags (tabular) — Used to associate plants with location during flight.

AI methods and techniques

• Computer vision — Used to identify and count crops from drone imagery.
• Geospatial analysis — Used with GPS-tagged plants to place counts in field context.

Industries

Real-world evidence

1 documented case study on record.

Companies using this: Finca La Suiza.