6 Reasons Why Advanced Ag Service Companies and Growers are Choosing Agcopter’s Weed Detecting Drones 🚁 Ahead of Other Spot Spraying Systems like SEE & SPRAY™, WeedSeeker®, WEED-IT, and Bilberry.
1.) Integration with Existing Systems: The maps generated by Agcopter's drones can be loaded into your existing GPS spray controllers turning your existing sprayers into spot sprayers. Agcopter maps are compatible with most GPS Systems and Rate Controllers, including popular brands like Trimble, Raven, John Deere, etc. This wide compatibility makes it adaptable to many existing farming setups with no additional equipment to install ever, unlike boom based sensors that that often get damaged and must be purchased and installed every time you change or add a new sprayer to your operation. And you can use your agcopter maps in multiple sprayers even at the same time.
2.) Highly Accurate Weed Detection and Mapping: Agcopter's drones map weeds in fallow fields with centimeter-level accuracy at over 500 acres per hour. Our sensor’s high vantage point and multiple angles of detection allows for extremely effective detection and targeting of weeds. Agcopter's technology can outperform existing boom-mounted optical sprayers in weed identification, with fewer false positives. Boom based sensors are rendered less effective by many everyday factors including their low vantage point, variations in boom height, speed, dust, water, and chemical mist. Agcopter’s method of separating weed detection from spraying eliminates these issues and results in more accurate and effective herbicide application.
3.) Pre-Spray Planning and Chemical Management: Agcopter’s software provides detailed information on weed coverage and the quantity of chemicals needed and acres to be sprayed BEFORE you spray. This feature allows for better planning and decision-making regarding the types and amounts of herbicides required. With boom based sensors you can only guess how much chemical you are going to use, resulting in either having to refill more often, or ending up with a bunch of extra chemical sitting in your sprayer.
4.) Seasonal Mapping for Pre-Emptive Control: Accumulating weed maps over a season can provide a comprehensive seasonal map, which can be used for selective pre-emergent herbicide application before the next season's weeds germinate.
5.) Customizable Spray Buffer Size: In the Agcopter software you can adjust the spray buffer around weeds to suit your specific needs. Tired of only getting part of the plant when spraying paraquat? Want to make sure you are getting the weeds and a good margin around the weeds while still saving a huge percentage of chemicals? Agcopter’s ability to set any size buffer is an especially big advantage over boom based sensors.
6.) The Future- AI and Green on Green: Our developers are making significant progress on “in crop” or “green on green” weed detection. Machine Learning or AI is a big part of making that happen, but AI is only as good as the quality of the data it has to work from. Our sensors gather extremely high resolution imagery and fluorescence data at over 500 acres an hour. Agcopter’s data is multitudes higher in quality, volume, and speed when compared with competing systems under development. In addition, the competition’s approach of using boom based sensors only gives the AI a split second to attempt detection. Agcopter’s approach of separating weed detection from spraying allows AI time to analyze the data, constantly learn from the data, and get it right. This puts Agcopter far ahead of the curve in ongoing development of solutions for in crop weed detection.
💰 And… the Agcopter system costs less than these other systems and has no subscription fees!