CHENNAI: Farmers in Tamil Nadu will soon be able to increase yield and cut down expenses on pesticides by doing precision farming through drone application. The Centre for Aerospace Research (CASR) of Anna University is currently working on mapping farmlands to help farmers increase production. It will soon submit the final project report to the Tamil Nadu Drone Corporation.
According to CASR officials, high-tech aerial surveying drones equipped with advanced multispectral sensors are being used to accumulate data on basis of chlorophyll content in the crop. Real-time imagery of the fields with the help of high-resolution multispectral cameras would identify diseases or other stress on crops.
