The importance of Remote Sensing has been vital to the field of Agribusiness has for many for decades.
Applications include:
Crop Management
- Plants with nutrient deficiencies, diseases or water deficiency
- Areas of weed infestations, insect, wind and herbicide damage
- Implications for biomass mapping
- Identification of potential surplus areas
- Calculation of plant populations
Plantation Management
- Areas of weed and pest infestation
- Mapping and quantification of replanting programmes
- Tree counting for input into wood flow calculations
- Areas of variable rate application of fertilisers and pesticides
- Plantation parcel and carbon storage mapping
- Illegal encroachment
Land Acquisition and Due Diligence
- Preliminary site surveys
- Quantity and quality validation of plantation parcels
- Resource estimation for input into wood flow calculations
- Illegal encroachment and land-use classification
