Award winning farmer, John Single and his sons, Ben (an aerospace engineer) and Tony (agronomist and farmer),  are a cutting edge farming family based in New South Wales Australia.  They recognized the need for precision weed detection to manage herbicide resistance and to reduce the cost of weed control on their farm, but they were unhappy with the boom-based optical weed sensing sprayer systems they had been employing.  Luckily, the Single family’s talent pool combined with some world class roboticists was a perfect combination to solve this problem.  They have worked diligently over the last ten years to develop the AGCOPTER/Single Shot drone-based weed detection sensor. It is a system that has been designed by farmers for farmers to be cheaper to purchase and operate, as well as to detect smaller weeds more reliably than comparable sprayer mounted systems.